{"id":157,"date":"2008-06-25T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T06:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-06-25T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T06:30:05","slug":"brain-games-a-challenge-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/brain-games-a-challenge-of-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; Brain Games- a challenge of the mind &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_06_25_a.jpg\" alt=\"...  touch me????? ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I woke up thinking that I might just cut this song from the record.  I went down to get my morning cup of coffee at the <em>Green Frog<\/em> and popped on a rough mix on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowonamerica.com\/products\/cowon\/d2\/\">D2<\/a>.  I thought to myself &#8230; &#8220;How am I going to make this song make sense?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My goal in writing songs for &#8220;Bits&#8221; has been to keep the songs simple and true to my mindset I had when I first played these games.  &#8220;Brain Games&#8221; is easily the most bizarre and complex of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled the song out of the muck today and I feel pretty good about it.  I transposed some guitar lines from the beginning of the song into a point further inside the song &#8230; changed a bass line &#8230; created some melodies &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s starting to make sense&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_06_25_b.jpg\" alt=\"... Master Blaster says :Not $h1t - ENERGY!!! ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In some ways, it&#8217;s very straight ahead.  I had to lose some angular chords.  I recorded with my Delta Blues 210 cranked to $h1t and all the overdrive came from blasting the clean channel with tons of gain from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zinky.com\/blaster.html\">Zinky Master Blaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the a short clip of LOUD guitars from &#8220;Brain Games&#8221; {lacking vocals &#8230; of course}<\/p>\n<p>Brain Games clip:<br \/>\n[audio:masterblaster.mp3]<\/p>\n<p>Trust me on this one &#8230; it will all work out &#8230; really!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up thinking that I might just cut this song from the record. I went down to get my morning cup of coffee at the Green Frog and popped on a rough mix on my D2. I thought to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/brain-games-a-challenge-of-the-mind\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230; Brain Games- a challenge of the mind &#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[250,175,119],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bits-solo-record","category-music","tag-atari","tag-bits","tag-brain-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}