Weeklybeats is a 52 week long music project in which artists compose and publicly release 1 song a week for the entire year.
Starting December 29th 2025 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.

Substance

By GregVK on March 8, 2026 9:29 pm

Another crazy week gone by.
Another one where I thought I was going to quit.

And another song started a while ago, and finished this week.
Can't get over how much music I've managed to finish thanks to this challenge. Feels kinda surreal.

Many things inspired this song.

- An old loop of sine waves melodies.
- The impulse to break what I'd made, resampling and mangling it into something else.
- The impulse to bring back the original idea.
- Driving home from a gig late last night, listening to Frank Ocean's Blonde.
- The necessity of singing quietly while my son was sleeping this afternoon.
- Dustsucker's kind comment about one of my sounds (which I decided to reuse in a different context for this song).
- Weekly Beats itself (This started around week 3 or 4, but I didn't know how to finish it at the time).
- All the lovely musicians I've had the pleasure of interacting with here.
- Whoever made the BS DYNASTAR bass preset on the M8 Community Sound Pack!

It's been another difficult week and I haven't had nearly as much time as I'd like to listen, comment and respond, here. I feel like a shitty community member. I want to make time, but work has been insane... This coming week should be a little more chilled. Looking forward to filling my ears with all your music!

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I always love how complete your M8 tracks sound. A lot of the time also for my own music i often feel like im missing one or two additional voices of polyphony / channels but you always manage to make it feel complete.

Also glad you managed to do another week, also i think im speaking for everyone here that the most important part you can do for this community is to create a song per week. Ofc interaction is great too but the primary goal of this challenge is consistency and so far you did not disappoint once by hitting upload each week.

Thanks for keeping it coming!

I love the sound design and composition on this! The subtle vocal elements are also amazing. Favorited!

love the rhytm, that little back jiggle at the end of the phrase, the evolving bass, the vocals… so darn fine.

Incredible work once again! Beautiful production. I love that half time bounce!!

Really beaut work!!

Glad we still have you and you didn't quit when you were thinking about it a few weeks ago!

Nice to hear the vocal sneak into the mix at times as well!

lovely work, Greg! best to you and yours

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