#Squarch 2022, day 1: Roscoe

It’s March still again, and Cam invited me to participate in #Squarch, a daily art practice for the month of March with a prompt of “square”. Square + March = Squarch. Last year I recorded a square dance tune every day on March, which was a really interesting exercise for me, and I’m going to try that again this year. I might also post photos of the afghan squares I’m crocheting, but mostly I think I’ll try to record a tune a day. And I’m going to try to spend about an hour or less on each one.

I’m not going to try to play at square dance tempo, though, or be too limited to tunes you might hear at a square dance. “Square” is a prompt, not a constraint — “square-ish” is fine. As with last year, most of the rhythm accompaniment is going to come from the excellent Strum Machine, unless I can talk Dave and Paul, who I jam with online, into letting me record a few sessions.

This tune is “Roscoe”, not from any particular source. The Floyd Radio Show uses it as their theme music with a different guest band performing it every episode, so I have no idea if I’ve picked up any particular version of it. Probably not; it sounds like a festival tune to me. I’m playing it here in the “if I overdub myself enough, it’ll make a wall of sound that hides my flaws” style, I guess.

#Squarch 2022, Day 1: Roscoe

(Of interest probably only to me, the fiddle on this is my electric, run through the NadIR impulse response convolver plugin with a few different violin IR files. I need to play with this some more, and I definitely need to learn how to mix better, but this sounds way better than just the raw sound of the electric violin.)

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