{"id":27,"date":"2008-03-26T21:47:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T02:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-11-02T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T20:12:37","slug":"brain-games-for-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/brain-games-for-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Games for sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working on &#8220;Brain Games&#8221; today.<\/p>\n<p>Due to computer program issues &#8211; I did not get much of a chance to work on the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_03_26_c.gif\" title=\"Brain Games Wizard ... (really not as fun as it looks)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first time I ever played music with Dave was using the strange &#8220;jam-out&#8221; mode of this game.  I was living in a basement, waiting to move into my real apartment while it was being remodeled.  <\/p>\n<p>You could play twelve &#8220;notes&#8221; with each keypad.  They were not even close to being in tune.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_03_26_b.jpg\" title=\"atari keyboard controller\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to go for a more old school guitar tone on this song so I am using my bigger Delta Blues amp and the 414 close miking with little preamp gain and a whole lotta volume &#8230; a tone like G\u00c3\u00a1bor Szab\u00c3\u00b3 has on his 60&#8217;s LPs.  <\/p>\n<p>Not quite there yet.  It might be because the guitar I&#8217;m using has the pickup directly wired to the output &#8211; no electronics.  It sounds a little to twangy and bright.  I want it to sound rolled-off on the high end.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the first song I&#8217;ve written in standard tuning since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>I might have to tune up one of my real guitars instead of using this home made jobby I hacked together so many years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_03_26_c.jpg\" title=\"Home made guitar (don't look Matt)\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on &#8220;Brain Games&#8221; today. Due to computer program issues &#8211; I did not get much of a chance to work on the lyrics. The first time I ever played music with Dave was using the strange &#8220;jam-out&#8221; mode of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/brain-games-for-sure\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brain Games for sure<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bits-solo-record","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}