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By gunnbr on February 6, 2022 7:59 pm

I decided to be less ambitious for this track, so I focused on the lesson I'm on in my music theory course, which is chord change anticipations. But even then, life got in the way this week and I didn't get anywhere near as much time as I wanted to polish this. The demonstration the instructor showed off was really good, but mine still feels really forced. I wish I had more time to play with it since this definitely didn't even meet my lowered standard for the week. This was still good practice for trying to get something done quickly even if it proved that I'm not good at that yet.

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Way to keep up w/ the schedule -- wax-on-wax-off is the most important. The drum programming is a lot more interesting here than your previous one. I have a couple of ideas / suggestions that I'll message you on Discord about. The loop is a good -- for simple variation, you can always try to not have drums for a little bit, or only have the kick w/o the the rest, and chords w/o the lead: those decisions are less "music theory" and more about making formal choices. This can be done regardless of complexity of your stuff: you can use a single simple-tone instrument and try to make it interesting, or do like you did here and have a lead / chord / drum set that works as a loop and just try to see how playing NOT EVERYTHING outside of just intro / outro makes you feel.

Whatever you do, though, don't stop making a WB.

I got some Cave Story vibes here (a compliment). Welcome to the cram-to-get-something-in-without-feeling-like-there’s-enough-time club!

Hey, this is cool! I get the goal, but it can be hard with stuff like this with an instrument with less attack. You'll find something that sound more percussive will likely work better. Regardless, congrats on finishing another idea. smile

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