Game Tune
By gunnbr on January 24, 2026 11:04 pm
This week actually came together really quickly. This is the most confident I've felt about a song so far--I had enough ideas that I didn't struggle to make the 60 second minimum time! By Wednesday, I already had a song with an A section, a B section, some transitions and varied energy levels, so I was pretty happy with it. It's definitely not perfect and still isn't quite what I wanted, but I got it to a point where I felt like I could have spent many hours just tweaking it and though about posting it in #feedback for suggestions. Then I realized I had other important things to do (like practicing guitar) and that the point of Weekly Beats is just to get something out without worrying about it being perfect, so I decided to leave it alone.
My biggest concern here is that I hope I didn't just copy some C64 song. That's certainly the genre I was going for and I used Avrilcadabra's SID pack for it. It just came together so much more easily than previous weeks that I'm worried I just reproduced something I've heard before. I can't think of any specific song it sounds like though, so I think I'm good.
I also welcome any feedback on this tune. Anything you think I could have done better to make it pop or if I had a note that's not in the right key or whatever.
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