{"id":24959,"date":"2025-02-17T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24959"},"modified":"2025-03-02T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:36:07","slug":"drums-rhodes-with-a-side-of-sem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24959","title":{"rendered":"Drums, Rhodes with a side of SEM."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What started as a line check testing an iPad \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/axon\">#AXON<\/a> evolved into this little rain-soaked sketch. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/drumsandpedals\">#drumsandpedals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/rhodes\">#Rhodes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/sem\">#SEM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/synth\">#synth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/audiodamage\">#AudioDamage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/re201\">#RE201<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/tapedelay\">#tapedelay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/honestabeinstrumentco\">#honestabeinstrumentco<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/nobleandcooley\">#nobleandcooley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/royalcymbals\">#royalcymbals<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EricBeam1313\"><\/a><\/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\/iPr6W8yabCI?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a line check testing an iPad \/ #AXON evolved into this little&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24959\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drums, Rhodes with a side of SEM.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24960,"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-24959","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\/drums-rhodes-with-a-side-of-sem.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24662,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24662","url_meta":{"origin":24959,"position":0},"title":"Quarantine Experiment Two.","author":"Eric","date":"April 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"What the world inside my head is hearing this particular evening. 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