i knew a girl

who went by the name margarita

but the truth was

she wasn't as sweet

but she's pretty

and she's loaded

and her dad's a sheikh, uh

so i'm lucky that she sorta likes me

and my friends they

tried to find someone who'd treat me better

but i can't picture

someone else with me

so i did what any

other in my sitch would do

ignore advice

and then move in next week

i loved a girl

who went by the name margarita

but the truth was

she was always so dour

and all i've given up for her

my friends my dreams

couldn't save when her

affections grow sour

though the rose-tinted glasses

that i've taped to my face

ain't masking all those red flags so well

i'm lucky to be with my

ol' gal margarita

even though

she always puts me through hell

lucky to be her man

i swear it's not that bad

she's going through some things

she's not usually this mean

lucky she's still around

i know what's going down

she's going through some things

she's not usually this mean

entirely built from random selections of instruments, random selection of chord progressions, and arpeggiators set to randomly select intervals within the random chords. Serendipitously, it kind of worked.

Pales in comparison to bLiNd's legendary remix of this tune, but it'll do.

Recorded live (with only one small edit in post and some mastering)

Except that this did take like a few dozen takes, I eventually did record the final version live.

Composed with Modular + Minibrute 2s + VoiceLive 3 loop pedal

Roll the dice

Feeling lucky

Throw your chips

My heart's not lucky

Some days I just can't catch my break

There's no place for my mistake

You've got no place for me in your mind

You've got no place for me in your heart

The numbers don't favor me

The lucky one

The numbers don't favor me

I'm done

[Verse]

Some believe it's all random, a roll of the dice

Some will rub on a token to make it feel right

The belief that improvement can come to your life

and the touch of a charm can get you through the night

You discard the small notion and let the cards fall

There's no way to control your fate, nary at all

The idea that a keepsake with luck you can call

Is a fallacy, only a trap in you'd fall

[Chorus]

Good luck, with trying to follow all of your dreams

Good luck, it's not a fortunate as it seams

Good luck, with trying to have a happy good time

Good luck, is not a thing with which you'd rely

[Verse]

When a fate is turned, faith is spurned, doubt can be much

and the trinket you clutch is warm, not by your touch

You discard your old notions and go by a hunch

Not lean hard on the facts and instead by your trust

Roll the dice girl

I'll take you on

Up the bets now

My luck is hot

Happy 13 years Ramaniscence :)

i never thought it could be like this

never thought it would happen to me

one in a million 

you're

one in a million to me

I'm not sure what will happen now. Adrenaline racing through my veins, I make one last movement, and my fate is decided.

you always win at the arcade token exchange machine

forgot what time it was SUPPOSED to start oops

First Compo!

A text challenge was a lot harder than I thought it would be ha ha.

This has made me realize many things about my workflow that I need to work on ha ha.

Excited ^^

I used a number and text generator to generate:

1. The Polyrhythm i'm going to use for my main mallet motif's.
2. The key signature of the piece
3. 3 time signatures for each of the main drum hits, making this unstable groove.
4. The tempo of the project
5. Whether it's in a Major Key or a Minor Key
6. The time signatures of the remaining drum hits.

So what you have here is a piece made entirely out of LUCK