And here's mine ...... my drum machine is a Boss Dr. Rhythm Section DR-5. The only one I've ever had and I got bored with it quickly back when I got it at least 15 years ago .....
It basically has around 65 different beats , each having 3 or 4 variations.
You can program your own beats but I felt for this challenge I should use built in beats plus you know what's easier and quicker than programming my own beats?
NOT programming my own beats.
But really to me the spirit of the challenge is to use whatever is already in there so that's what I did.
I decided I had time to do it so last Saturday I wrote some lyrics on the way home from the gig ..... by the time I got home I had most of the lyrics and a rough idea of the melody. And, of course, I sorta had an idea of the 'feel' I thought it would have.
Just gotta find one in the machine that fits.
Well there wasn't one ...... nothing even remotely close! LOL
So I went thru all of them and picked the one that I could fit the words around ..... but it totally changed how it had to go and was nothing like I had envisioned.
Further the beat I'd chosen came in packets of 16 beats/4 measures ...... things HAD to fit into that structure ... could not be changed ...... that was fun.
The bridge is a different beat that's only 8 counts per packet but everything else is in groups of 16 counts.
As usual I took the first takes that didn't suck and the first mix that was decent.
Since it started as lyrics here they are:
Stupid Little Drum Machine
I got a drum machine
Boss Dr. Rhythm Section DR-5
It's ancient and it's awful and it doesn't sound good
Momma never taught me that a drum machine could
Inspire me to write a song like the one that I'm writing right in front of you now
Stupid little drum machine
The rhythms in my drum machine
They've got a cheesy kind of drum machine feel
The cymbals, snare and kick almost all sound the same
And getting it to play a fill's a giant pain
I think I'll use rhythm number 22
It doesn't sound like much but it's the best it can do
Stupid little drum machine
I'm just working trying to make it through
I hope I do as well ... as the others do
I'm just hoping I can get it right
And can I knock it out ...... in only just one night?
We're getting to the end of the song
I'll bet you're happy that it wasn't too long
I ran out of words that rhyme or make any sense
Almost as incoherent as the President
He's dumber than my drum machine
He's just a dumb machine
Walking talking dumb machine
He's just a dumb machine
Dumbest guy I've ever seen
aha ...... I can't help it .... he really is ..... that man is not smart
whoo-hoo!
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