Rather than reach for my most-used guitar, I thought to shake up my routine a bit with the hollowbody Univox in Bb F Bb F Bb C tuning, a variation on [ url=https://www.johnfahey.com/CTuning.htm]John F...

This one came together quickly, out of playing with a fingering pattern in 3/4 (the first thing you hear), though it doesn't sound to me like waltz time. Suddenly, a western-sounding rhythm guitar fig...

A consistent approach, but a different instrument and maybe a slightly different vibe this week. For this one, I used the Res-O-Glas Belmont I put together in 2015. For a little while in the late 200...

This took way longer than it should have. Lots of tracking, but mostly variations of a few ideas. I'm not totally convinced that this works. Mid-week I had a thought about a high melody over some stro...

A busy week of travel and weekend of events at home left me with a bit of time to get this piece done: one session Saturday afternoon and one Saturday night. The result has a lot in common with what I...

Ah, this one actually started pretty early in the week and was able to steep properly. Banged out the main riff and drums into the general structure, then it was all filling in the blanks, with a litt

This one comes from a single Saturday evening session with PureSalem Mendiola in standard tuning. I'd been listening to Slowdive again and thought it'd be worth adding a bit of shoegazy echo in there,...

This one comes out of a productive Friday night session, a short Saturday night session, and some cleanup Sunday morning. I picked up the Univox Coily I keep in modified Fahey tuning (Bb F Bb F Bb C),...

I've been doing weeklybeats 2026 almost entirely on the Dirtywave M8 -- often on a Sunday night, in bed, on an actual hw. This was before Tim went and elevated a hardware abstraction layer into a proper iOS App (which I still very much recommend). This particular tune though, "Innit", is an oddity for me: it lives on the Analog Four, a box I got from a friend ages ago for an absolutely irresistible price. It mostly collected dust. I'd make a few tunes here and there but never really dug into the stuff that makes it unique. Other than having individual channels ready for effects pedals and exposing the Elektron sequencer via CV for your eurorack addiction (stuff that I for _sure_ will never use). I've been putting off learning about the **performance macros** forever, and I hate myself for it. Luckily the amazing Ivar Tryti revealed his mastery on Youtube which helped a lot. The concept is simple: you bundle up to five track parameters onto a single macro knob. Ten of them live on the performance page making is far less stressful of a navigation when performing. There's a setup cost, you need to precisely tune the parameter interactions, but once that's locked in, live performance becomes a far less stressful affair. You can also live map any or all of these ten mappings onto a single encoder for otherwise physically impossible twistings. This is easily remappable during the performance. I'm still a noob at this, but the point is the same as always: there's real joy in performing and building up energy for the drop in real time -- way more satisfying than preprogramming the whole sequence.

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Due to weekend scheduling, I pulled this one in to late Thursday and Friday. I started with the thought of choosing a dissonant figure, and having to work around it. As I typically do, I found a way t...

I started this one Saturday evening, with the first thing I played when I picked up the guitar. (That's in the left channel at the beginning.) This turned out to be in 7/4, so that set up some interes...

Arrangement & Production by 2haf Composition by 2haf & levelcapybara › haiku‹ haiku Backside sky gazing right beneath the water's edge. Cool. Rippling. Blue. HUUUUUUGE thanks this week to 2haf for t...

This piece came together in two sessions with the PureSalem Mendiola (first version). There are three tracks: neck pickup (left channel), both pickups (center, mostly chords), and right channel (bridg...

This one was the product of two late-night sessions and one afternoon session. The music seemed to want to lead to different places each time, so we have a variety of meters and approaches to tempo. D...

Percussion & Drum Programming: Jason Pellegrino Electric Bass: Jason Pellegrino Synths & Song Arrangement: levelcapybara HUUUUUUGE shoutout this week to Jason Pellegrino from some excellent bass groov...

Guitar Performance & Recording by jwh Composition & Production by levelcapybara HUUUUUUGE shoutout this week to jwh for performing and recording both parts of this guitar duet. jwh, you're an awesome ...

Fun Facts About Tsunderes (by levelcapybara): -Tsunderes call people baka (“idiot”). -Most people (correctly) think I’m an idiot. 😓 -Therefore (logically): most people are tsunderes. So here’s a big o...