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Jamuary 2026
Spa Day
3:02

Spa Day

I wanted to learn how to do tempo following in Ableton Live, so I set up the electric piano as the leader and played a I-vi-V-II progression in D in what I thought was a fairly free manner. The first few recordings, Ableton completely lost the beat. I was playing fairly slowly, and it seems like the program wants something more rhythmic. In any case, the sound of the chords reminded me of the music that masseuses play. I remembered that I have a Kontact instrument called "Hypha" that has soothing, evolving sounds, and the result is "Spa Day".

Produced in Ableton Live 12.3.

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