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Forest Adventure

By gunnbr on January 16, 2022 6:06 am

This is a tune based on a 2 bar loop I made while going through the Audible Genius Building Blocks music theory and creation course. This is the first time I've tried to make a fully complete track with a beginning, middle and end, so it's not all that amazing, but I'm happy that I pushed myself to do more than I ever have in the past.

When playing it just as a short loop, it sounded like a video game tune used for a happy forest adventure. I don't think my second verse sounds quite as much like "happy forest adventuring", but I still wanted to practice making some kind of variation. Then I decided it needed a quick video just to illustrate the forest adventure, so I threw something together in Unity really quick. The video is also not perfect and once I added the music into it, I discovered that it sounded worse on my PC headphones. I'm guessing this is what people mean when they talk about doing the mixing. After I realized this, I thought I should have spent more time on the music instead of working on a video. But there's always next week...

Made on an #M8Tracker. Drums are samples, everything else is synths from the various M8 engines.


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When you say "this is the first time I tried to make a track w/ the beginning / middle / end" -- is this your first ever proper track?! This is delightful and totally awesome, please make more stuff, this is great.

Sounds like you're off to a good start, and WeeklyBeats (and M8!) must be the ideal way to get going.

ilzxc wrote:

is this your first ever proper track?!


Yes it is! And thank you for the encouragement!

zpelsman wrote:

Sounds like you're off to a good start, and WeeklyBeats (and M8!) must be the ideal way to get going.


Thank you! I'm having a lot of fun with it so far!

The video adds to the experience! I get the vibe of walking through the woods in zelda. Cool concept and good execution!

This is so fun, music with the video puts a smile on my face, hope to hear more

Fun!

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