gunnbr-WB24-04
By gunnbr on January 28, 2024 10:33 pm
No matter how this turns out as a song, I consider this a win for the week. On Monday, I had an idea for a bassline in my head and made some educated guesses as to what I was thinking of. That evening, I was able to create the bass sound I was going for really quickly (thanks to my training from Syntorial). Then I put in the notes I thought would work (probably thanks mostly to playing a lot of guitar to backing tracks in the past year) and everything sounded just the way I wanted! This is the first time I've been able to put something together so quickly that was exactly what I was thinking about. The "chords track" also turned out just like I wanted (or at least the fast arpeggio part in the second half), so I was really excited about that too.
Unfortunately, one of my goals for the week was to work on a good melody. I had some thoughts about this, but didn't use the voice recorder to capture those and, by the time I got the rest of the song in, I had forgotten many of my ideas for that. I did noodle on the guitar a bit and came up with at least something for that, even though I don't love it. I was really planning to go wild in the second part of the song and have a much more elaborate and interesting melody, but then family obligations called and I ran out of time to complete it. I may come back to this song again later since I at least like the way I started out with it.
But ultimately, even if the song as a whole isn't awesome, I'm really excited that I was able to think of something in my mind and translate that into actual music so quickly and easily for the first time.
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