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     Sometimes the video doesn't match up perfectly with the audio because I went back and re-recorded a part and didn't bother filming myself playing again, but who cares. Who cares about whether or not the video is synced up. The music is what matters. That's how I feel.
 
     The guitar solo isn't very fast or flashy. I'm still a guitar newbie, mind you. But I spent a long time practicing, and I played it with heart!
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+    <i>Raid:</i> ([personal blog](https://raidsrc.me/content/posts/7-iwyas-tune), album progress and commentary, 6/8/2024)
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+    <big>i warned you!</big>
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+    Mixing and mastering is really hard and time-consuming. That's really all there is to say about it.
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+    Anyway, I just made "I Warned You About Stairs!!!!!!!!", very guitar-and-bass-heavy tune I had a ton of fun composing, arranging, performing, & recording.
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+    I actually mostly finished this one up two months ago and just sat on it until June. I got the jump on it. Having finished this tune and video early, with two months to spare, you might be wondering what I spent those two months doing. Hah! Stressing out about all the mixing/mastering/adjustment work I'm going to have to do for the rest of the album and how I'm going to compose and arrange and record the final new tune, of course!
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+    When I was mixing this one I was listening to songs from [[artist:asian-kung-fu-generation|Asian Kung-fu Generation's]] <i>Sol-fa</i> and <i>Sol-fa 2016</i> and trying to sculpt my sound in such a way that it didn't sound like absolute trash when played next to tunes from <i>Sol-fa</i>. I listened to [[track:shindo-kaku|"Shindōkaku" (振動覚 Resonance)]], "Rewrite" (リライト Riraito), and [[track:re-re|"Re:Re:"]] a bunch. I used them as reference tracks, in other words.
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+    The idea for the introductory drum solo came to me in a dream. No, not really. I just love [stop-time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-time), which is the thing that I'm doing there when all the instruments hit a sparse, accented rhythm together and then drop out so the drum solo can cut through. I just think stop-time sounds really fucking sick. So I decided to have everyone do stop-time while I played a drum solo.
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+    I played this one to a 150 BPM click. Sometimes I like doing that and sometimes I don't. I usually prefer to play freely, without a click, which makes playing feel better in some ways and worse in others. It definitely helped around 0:18, when I just started spamming notes on the snare, floor tom, and bass drum as fast as I could, knowing I could easily hop back on beat because I had a click in my ear. That's something that's a lot harder to do well without a click. I dunno if I could do it well without a click.
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+    And all these J-rock quotes! It's now very clear how much J-rock has been influencing me lately. I've always kinda sorta liked J-rock and anime music ever since I was in high school, but it's only recently (over the past 2-3 years) that I've gradually come to REALLY love it. I've watched my [fair share of anime](https://raidsrc.notion.site/Frequently-Asked-Questions-cd033f8c10334d298e9418ec117e7d91#89a16353cffe4f778cabbc885618a182), but it's mostly older stuff. I haven't watched a lot of new shows. So if you can recommend me a new anime to watch (that's actually good, because I'm not wasting my time watching some fucking garbage), go for it in my YouTube comments somewhere.<br>
+    And say that this blog post sent you there.
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+    The next and last new tune from this album will come out sometime between now and 10/25. It will be quite different than what you've been getting, and yet, somehow, sort of similar. Stay tuned for that.
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+    <i><b>2024-06-12 Update</i></b>: You hear the [[track:ill-face-myself|Persona OST]] quote in the guitar solo? Fuckin, sick, right?? Just letting you know, I've never actually played the game. The reason I know the tune is because I played a <i>Five Night's at Freddy's</i> parody fangame called <i>Five Nights at Fuckboy's</i> in 2016 or so, and that tune from Persona was used as battle music. And for some reason, I remember the melody of the tune, 8 years later!
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 Track: On Still Wings
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