Weeklybeats is a 52 week long music project in which artists compose and publicly release 1 song a week for the entire year.
Starting January 1st 2024 GMT each participant will have one week to upload one finished composition. Any style of music or selection of instruments are welcomed and encouraged. Sign up or Login to get started or check our FAQ for any help or questions you may have.

Week 1

By DL♥ on January 8, 2012 7:54 pm

I wasn't particularly inspired for this first week.  It's quite a short submission, though I think it's long enough.  It could easily have been extended, but it would just have involved copy and pasting the same things a bit more so I decided against it.

I like messing around with harmony so for the middle section I developed the simple chord structure from the opening of the song.  The melody was played live on the computer keyboard as I didn't have a regular keyboard to hand.  I don't tend to write melodies but rather improvise over a harmonic structure.  Hopefully participating in Weakly Beats will force me more to stick with something for a "final" version of a song rather than what I normally do which is to leave gaps in my music for live performance.

Love the jam, reminds me of DamFunk a little, love his stuff.

Bring on the slow jams!  I know what you mean about being inspired for the first week... (at least until a few drinks!)  Pretty good effort on the qwerty keys too

The harmonies in the middle section are rad.

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