Cumbia Transmission is a song with 7 variations.

Cumbia Transmission is a song with 7 variations. | Ecency

Suddenly, one song needs to become seven different songs?

So, I’m making an album, right?
I start working on it’s songs right? (It’s an album with a truck themes, right? I’ve mentioned it before, right? Yes, here: @steemseph/wtf-do-i-know-about)

All songs on Cumbia Truck have names that reflect various portions of a truck. For example, one of the songs is called, “Polished Chrome”. Another is called “Cumbia Truck Transmission” or maybe “Cumbia Transmission”.

ANYWAY…. While I was working on “Cumbia Truck Transmission” , I came up with a bright idea to create seven different versions of the song I had named, “Cumbia Transmission.” Like a standard transmission’s gears, right? Transmission has five forward gears one neutral, and a reverse position. I guess most modern trucks are kinda different, but I’m sticking with this for now. (Column shifter, manual transmission and all those gear variations might come later.)

Fun Musicality
Each song variation has the name of a gear associated with it. The instrumentation and rhythmic interpretations in each song also resemble characteristics of the same gear or characteristics involved with managing that gear. For example, The song going by the name of “Cumbia Truck Transmission 3rd Gear” Will have rhythmic interpretations and patterns inspired by groups of three or six (and triplets). It’s still in 4/4.

Each gear will have a song. Even reverse in neutral. Guess what reverse is going to sound like. I created a separate project for it so that I could reverse the entire song and mix/edit it to work with… it’s self.

The premise was for people to dance, remember? Well, I forgot. That brings me to one of my biggest fears. The dance ability of the songs and the album overall has probably gone down. It’s becoming a weird album. Bass solo? In an album for dancing? I’m not gonna lie, it’s weird.

Hey look a possible album cover!

I contemplate several methods for dealing with his creative outburst. I could either put all of it including the other songs onto the one album, or I could use this song as a single and have all these other versions appear as special/exclusive to that single. Thinking about it further, maybe this one song and all of its versions could just be its own album. MILKY IT, right? Cumbia Milk Truck…

Anyway, that’s the Tetrahedroseph news. Most of the Thanksgiving holidays has spend working on what I thought were Cumbia Truck songs.