Infinite musics

Steph sent me some orchestral metal earlier and it reminded me of when I used to write heavier stuff. Of course, the heavier stuff that I wrote was mostly in the context of videogame music. This was about as proggy as I got. Hell, this is probably as proggy as I’ll ever get. I was trying to be a bit out there with this one, because I am AWARE of that whole-prog metal scene, that goes major and sounds dark and stuff. That’s actually about my favourite thing to do in metal.

The above strikes me as really disjointed and incoherent. Don’t read it. Also, I’m actually afraid of using the metal tag, and especially prog metal tag. I’m going to get ripped to shreds by metal fans. To say that those guys are passionate would be undermining them.

The song I’m listening to is called “What New York couples fight about”. Sure, it really is a great song, but I just heard something about a bomb. I don’t think they’re even talking about New York or the couples therein. Anyway, for some reason listening to this music reminded me that I’ve still got a song to post, so I’m going to go and do that. Imagine: Me posting music.

This music also began with me on a keyboard vamp, and is my preferred one out of the two that I wrote. During my initial doodling stages I realized that it’d have to be some kind of videogame rpg sounding music. This allowed me some magical wonderful mystical sounding chord jumps where you do cool stuff like jump from the minor root to the major fourth. I also throw a bit of out of key chords in here for good measure. I’m generally pretty reserved in going out of key. I tend not to because I’m not very good with musical theory. I figured though that a major second jump was safe enough. It sort of gives a pulling sensation, like - woah man. Attention grabbing. 

the bridge was actually supposed to be a lot shorter, but I forgot to modulate back into the original key. It’s a cheater thing to do, but I thought that the original melody (with some modifications to the bassline) sounded pretty different when in a major key, so I stuck with that.

I’m kind of torn on the final sound, if only for one thing. I dunno how much people are going to hear this, but if you DO hear this then it’ll ruin the song, so I’d skip over this part if I were you. Essentially, the bass note of the chord sticks out a WHOLE lot more in the soundfont that I used after converting. It does not sound pretty at all to be hammering on that bass note for the entire time.

Also, I’m not going to say that this song was completely directionless, but to call it planned would be a laugh.

I now prompt you all to laugh.

haha.

Now that the laughing break is over, I’ll explain myself a but more, but only if you promise not to enjoy it. I have to keep up this condescending tone, and it wont be nearly as huffy if you are enjoying it.

Basically I began with the initial chord vamp. I figured out the melody in my head as well. Secondly, I figured out the second chord vamp which is between the first and second section. It’s a bit of a pre-chorus or bridge or some shit. I didn’t have a melody in mind when I wrote this, and was actually racking my brain to figure one out, but nothing would come. Thankfully, I managed to bullshit that down when the time came to write it. It was easy enough. The bassline was sort of accidental. I hadn’t had anything in mind, but I actually fucked up on a rhythm that I intended to try and liked this more. It all turned out for the better. As mentioned before, the major section was completely accidental, but I think it sounds cool. It’s also something that I may or may not have done purely to lengthen the song.

My internet was out yesterday, so I couldn’t post this track, which I’d written the night BEFORE at an absurdly late hour. I’ve also wrote another track yesterday at a less absurdly late hour. Don’t worry, I looked at it again during a later hour (almost absurd) and fixed it up. Anyway, point being that I’ve wanted to post both of these tracks that I’ll be posting today and tomorrow. They’re both pretty piano focused and very much things that sound like things that I’d write and are not out of the ordinary for me at all. I think both are kind of videogamey.

This is the first of the two completely unrelated tracks. Why do I keep bringing up the second one then? It’s a mystery to everyone. Even me.

this just sort of started out with me doodling on the keyboard very briefly. C minor 7th is quickly becoming my favourite chord. Initially I was thinking about persona when I made this music, but I very quickly strayed from that idea when I calmed the fuck down and decided to inject more line. Persona’s music style is a lot more vertical. I’m no good at writing verticality. The opening drums are actually my stab at writing vertical and then I decide to ditch it, going with a more swingin’ pattern.

It’s a bit cheesy with the bassline and everything, but I decided that why not make a cheesy song with a scooby doo bassline? 

- Good music to sleuth to.

Gee wilikers, it’s past my bedtime. I made some lounge music, again inspired by the Catherine OST that I love so much, though that’s actually accidental. 

Earlier today I tried to write something much different and gave up after a few hours of trying to get one bar of music down. Suffice to say, it didn’t go so well. This went much better. I just sort of started writing and this happened. I wasn’t really paying too much attention to what was going on, and just making whatever sort of rhythms I felt like. The main melody of this song, for instance, wasn’t even intended to be any kind of melody. There’s actually a piano roll-chording thingie above that you can hardly hear. This melody was actually supposed to compliment that! You can hardly even hear that in the final product.

I knew from the start that I’d want to make some beats though. The beats are very important. With that in mind, it actually led me to take on some stranger rhythms in terms of duplets and triplets. If there’s anything cooler sounding than a triplet, it’s a duplet. I decided I’d make a big ol’ song just going completely nuts with that sort of stuff. Time is overrated. This song is too cool to stay in a swing feel. It does whatever it wants.

For the lack of work, effort, care, or really much of anything that’s gone into this track, I really like how it turned out. It’s probably my favourite lounge track I’ve written. I’m actually really excited about it.