Dog Bossa
By horatiuromantic on January 30, 2022 2:24 pm
This is a song about Cheddar, the dog. Mac, his owner, is not playing with Cheddar but is playing VR where he is walking a virtual dog.
I made this song for Global Game Jam 2022 for our game, Mac and Cheddar. You can play it here for free:
https://the-nomi.itch.io/mac-n-cheddar
This track can loop endlessly because it needs to in the game! I don't know if it does in fact get annoying after a while but I tried to make it in a way that is more hypnotic than annoying, by using the beat and keeping solos simple but interesting.
I made the music starting from a bossa drum beat using DrumComputer on iPad which is also able to do random fills. I didn't use that feature much in this piece but it plays random fills about every 4-8 bars. It also has mostly electronic sounds which I don't usually like but I managed to get something nice out of it this time, perhaps a bit loud. I coupled it with a bassline in Bassalicious 2 that established the harmony and then I jammed on it with the piano until I found what seemed like a fitting melody. In hindsight, I think I much prefer coming up with a melody or phrase first, and then build the track from that, because it's harder the other way round. But this was a good learning experiment and it was still fun jamming on the track. Finally I added some FM 2 classic DX strings and the mellotron clone app flute to give it the weird solo and chord hits, to create a sense of progression through the song.
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