God's Flesh

Resting Place took four years. Almost none of that was writing the album — it was building SongCreator into the tool I actually needed. Scale logic, interval theory, playability rules, note-length phrasing, three arrangements that interact. Resting Place was the first album where the tooling was finally good enough to produce something I was proud of. It was the proof.

And then the throughput showed up. Resting Place came out March 7, 2026. Seven days later, on March 14, the first song of God's Flesh was already written, recorded, mixed, and in the can. Fifteen songs complete inside a month — not because I'm working twice as hard, but because four years of tool-building compounds. Four more followed that summer, and by mid-July the twentieth — Warm Hand on My Shoulder — closed out the planned twenty.

God's Flesh is the first album where SongCreator writes across multiple tunings — E Standard, Open G, E Flat, and Open E. Of the 20 songs, only one is in E Standard. Seven are in Open G, and ten — the largest share — are in E Flat. The tuning that defined every note of Resting Place is now the rarest on the record.

Different tunings aren't cosmetic. Open G (DGDGBD) gives the algorithm droning fifths and slide-ready voicings that standard tuning never reaches. Open E (EBEG#BE) turns a single barre into a full major chord, letting lead lines sit over open-chord harmony in ways E Standard physically can't. E Flat is a half-step relaxation — subtle, but the tension shift changes how the generated phrases feel under the fingers. Each tuning reshapes the intervals the algorithm works with, the chord shapes it can build, and the way melodies move across the neck.

SongCreator handles tuning-aware scale mapping — each tuning has its own fret-to-note lookup, so the generator knows that string 1 fret 0 is E in E Standard but D in Open G. Note selection and interval math run in absolute pitch space, so melodies stay musically coherent no matter which tuning the song uses. GuitarSesh's real-time detection loads tuning-specific frequency tables (single notes and chord shapes) the moment a song's tuning is set, so every note is tracked accurately regardless of how the guitar is configured.

Twenty tracks. Four tunings. One person, one guitar, one piece of software that writes the music and another that records every note — and four years of building the thing that makes this pace possible.