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The second batch with the new starter came out of the oven a few hours ago. The crust was amazing, a record-setting crust, a crust about which books might be written: crisp and crackly over a chewy crumb, just like bakery bread never is. The flavor was, ahh, hell. It was bland.
Peter Reinhart writes that new starters take a few weeks to develop their “full complexity of flavor.” So I’m going to hang out and bake bland bread for a few weeks in hopes that Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus brevis take residence in this frothing slop that smells, I must admit, like an unkempt locker room.
I’ve had to update my Enterprise checklist again. This installment:
Make sure the car doesn’t stink like wet dogs.
I am, again, in awe of the staff of Enterprise Rent-a-Car. They manage to offend me every time I do business with them.
I read through Ed Wood’s Sourdoughs International site again and got to wondering if my standard wild yeast culture was perhaps substandard because I’d “seeded” it with organic raisins. So I mixed up a batch of whole wheat and spelt flour and some spring water and set it out to ferment for a few days. We’ll see what happens.
This sample is more complete than most, with an intro and outro, because I put it together for my answering machine. The basic rhythm features a ride pattern split over 3 sources, played in an even time, so that the ride pattern takes three bars to resolve. This is one of my favorite things to do to add life to a straight-time groove because the cymbal pulse comes at odd-feeling times, e.g. 1, and of 2, 4, and of 1, 3, and of 4, etc.
The snare is totally straight, 2 and 4 with no ghosting.
The kick is somewhat interesting but not so much that I’m going to write anything about it.
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This was one of the first grooves in 7 that I created after not playing for a year or two. The ride pattern alternates between cymbals and takes two bars to resolve — that is, if you start with 1 on the bell, the following 1 will be on the china because there are 7 beats to the bar.
The kick/snare rhythm resurfaces in the Looks Dumb in Sunglasses groove, unintentionally, although that version is in straight time.
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