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To The Car

By gunnbr on February 27, 2022 6:02 am

They say to write what you know, so this week's song is about our struggle to get out of the house and get to school on time every day. I've had the general concept for this song for a while now but I'm not very happy with this current version of it. We had a family vacation this week, so I decided it was a good time to finally try to bring the song to life. That turned out to be a bad decision, because I didn't have access to my normal equipment, so I had to make due with what I had available, like the microphone built in to my laptop. sad
But this week gave me the chance to try out samples in the M8 more, including using my own voice, using the sample editor and using slice marks. I'll definitely work on this more and refine it into something much better when I have the time.

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Hard not to make a mental connection w/ Kraftwerk's Autobahn, which I hope is a compliment. Love the sound effects, and the ending is adorably cartoonish -- Carl Stalling vibes (I just looked him up and he's the OG WB-type guy with his Warner Brothers animated scores works, as according to Wikipedia, he averaged one completed score every week ... for 22 years!)

Also, the melodic writing is the most adventurous from you yet: both the A and B sections are well-realized, and that ascending bass line for the end -- very very nice! (Hopefully you can hear your own progress, it's pretty remarkable, and that's exciting.)

Cool samples! The simple melody works well for this track. smile

LOVE IT!

HEY WE'RE LATE!  I absolutely love the story, the samples, and the cool "you won!" ending melody

ilzxc wrote:

one completed score every week ... for 22 years!

i just died reading this, RIP me

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