This is not a journal.

I've been thinking: almost all the songs I write on the guitar make use of the following:

• Constant change between the pentatonic scale and heptatonic scale
• Constant change between 4/4 rythms that go in groups of threes (like x--x--x--x--x-x-) and 3/4 rythms, and occasional arythmia
• Many major triad chords from many scales, which all blend to sound cool and discordant
• A constant low note (E is easiest) that sounds on off-beats to keep rythm

The songs usually have that classical Spanish guitar sound, something like Radiohead's Bodysnatcher-esque songs (that song is probably what I base everything I write on). The scale is all Tool and the Velvet Underground. I wonder why the latter two; I don't even love them amazingly much.

(Wow, analyzing my own music--am I pretentious?)