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Day 3: Luckless

So I learned more from FL tutroials today. I can tell I’m getting faster, but I’m not confident enough in my drum making or EQ skills. There’s a ton I could improve in this track, but since I’m trying to “finish” a song everyday I’m forcing myself to leave things like this unfinished. I could seriously spend weeks tweeking this minute and a half song and that’s not necessarily a good thing.

This started out with a piano loop I made spindled up on the keyboard then shifted up a key. Added the bass, some rudimentary drums, then the sax which was fun to play with. I tried reusing some “parts” from the first part of the song since I was unsure how to advance and I know most of the time you borrow something from the earlier part of the song as you go forward. What we have is another...thing that I don’t really know what it’s trying to express. I kind of imagined it playing in a coffee house but then a string section comes in and that’s out the window. Maybe one day I’ll know what I’m doing.  

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Day 2: Ashwater Island

I thought of this as the theme for a place that was very lonely and isolated, but not completely devoid of hope. It also started out in a D major chord but somehow went off course I think.

Still not loving it, but I can’t keep working on it or else it’ll be weeks of EQing instead of doing something new. I know so many things aren’t right; it’s too loud, it’s not properly panned or EQ’d and it’s really obvious I keep reusing the same song structure again and again.

Think of songs as “paragraphs.” Most composers start with words when they start a song, but I can’t help but start with whole “sentences.” I don’t know what to do with those sentences after I make them, though, so I end up with only a few sentences compared to other composers who use their words to make lots of sentences for their paragraph while mine is only 2 or 3 sentences long. 

I’ve got to start using things in a more basic level. 

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Day 1: Muddy Clouds

I made a fun melody on my keyboard that became the chorus of this song. I struggled to find a mood for this after I made the loop, a problem that happens often. After fiddling around with some instruments it turned into this odd, hip-hop and strings inspired diddly. It doesn’t really have a message and doesn’t even follow proper song structure, but maybe the aimlessness was the point? I’ll never tell.

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The Start

Welcome to my challenge blog. I’m aiming to make at least one song a day for, I dunno, ever? I want to see how long I can do it and if I improve. And away we go.