{"id":24743,"date":"2022-04-03T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24743"},"modified":"2025-03-02T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T00:58:42","slug":"24743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24743","title":{"rendered":"contemplate : one-take experiment."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EricBeam1313\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was feeling creatively stagnant and far overdue for a round of sonic therapy\/one-take music\/sound design. Earlier today a friend asked if I have ever used distortion on drums, &#8220;Ummm, do you even know me?&#8221; so here you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pslus9B_X5M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Drums #MS20 #Rhodes #Boss #delay #keplingerdrums #fuzz #sounddesign #synth #analogdelay #drumlife #guitar #experimentalmusic #Darkmusic #gothicmusic #electronicmusicproduction #electronicmusic #distortion #musicproduction #musicflow #creatingmusic #studiojam #experimental #heavy #atmosphere #aheadsnare #zildjian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>drums #improv #drumlife #moog #rhodes #boss #experimentalsound #Darkmusic #electronicmusicproduction #electronicmusic #musicproduction ##musicflow #creatingmusic #studiojam #liveelectronicmusic #experimental #heavy #atmosphere #sounddesign #experimentalmusic #qdrums #alcohol #synth #wazacraft #studiolife #recording #QDrums #keplinger #experimental #distortion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling creatively stagnant and far overdue for a round of sonic therapy\/one-take music\/sound&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24743\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">contemplate : one-take experiment.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/24743.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24654,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24654","url_meta":{"origin":24743,"position":0},"title":"Pianobook Experiment &#8211; (Prophet X + Drums)","author":"Eric","date":"January 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I just found out about the \"Pianobook collective sample project\" and was inspired by the \"The 9000ft Piano\" available for the Prophet X. Downloaded and made this little improv noodle. I tracked the drums last month as a slow tempo experiment 48\/96 bpm. 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I grabbed 4 Blacked-Out Boss stomps to check out the differences. Distortion and tomfoolery were had! For those curious enough to deal with the sonic assault, I go through them each 1 by 1, but of course go All-In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Everything Else&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-out-drums-meet-dirt-stomps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-out-drums-meet-dirt-stomps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-out-drums-meet-dirt-stomps.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-out-drums-meet-dirt-stomps.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-out-drums-meet-dirt-stomps.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24668,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24668","url_meta":{"origin":24743,"position":2},"title":"Quarantine Five.","author":"Eric","date":"August 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Quarantine NO.5 Somber improv, experimenting with Tape delay, Trees, & Drums+Vocoder. Sonically it fits my mindset as of late. https:\/\/youtu.be\/2xww14RQ2GM : : : : ;; : : : #drums #trees #synths #delay #qdrums #arp #eventide #prophetX #sequential #drumlife #recording #microphones #experimentalsound #drummers #cymbals #creatingmusic #experimentalmusic #Distortion #sounddesign #Darkmusic #Heavymusic #electronicmusicproduction\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=375"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/quarantine-five.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/quarantine-five.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/quarantine-five.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/quarantine-five.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/quarantine-five.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24652,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24652","url_meta":{"origin":24743,"position":3},"title":"End of day &#8211; (Rhodes, Tape Delay, Drums, &#038; CONTINUA)","author":"Eric","date":"November 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Some more end of day music\/sounddesign\/Sonic therapy. 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