The Beginner
By horatiuromantic on January 4, 2026 6:01 pm
Hello everybody! Welcome back to WeeklyBeats, super excited to be back with you all!!!
I'm very excited to start WeeklyBeats FROM THE BEGINNING! It's my 3rd year, previously completed 52 tracks in 2022 and ~38 in 2024. I am hoping to get closer to 52 again this year!
I've had a wonderful year in 2025, full of music, playing live, learning a lot and having a great time. Now I'm back to working full-time as a programmer on a new small indie game with some friends, and thus I'll have limited time for music. But rest assured, WB is my TOP priority music-wise, and I am looking forward to listen and share and learn and grow with you all, as is my ritual every 2nd year.
ABOUT THE BEGINNER
I made this on my dad's electric guitar, that I got him for Christmas! It was a great time, and it started from the basic groove in A:
1 - 1 8 - 8 7b - 7b 5 - 5
I wrote it thinking it's a simple song, anybody can learn, and it will help him develop the skill while having fun. He played in high school but now he is a bit rusty. The groove is supposed to be addictive and you just wanna keep playing and messing around with it forever. It really was catchy and I couldn't stop playing it and singing it in my head as I was coming up with the idea around Christmas. Then I wrote some quick lyrics and melody and included the most important chord on electric guitar: the Jimi Hendrix E7+9 major-minor.
Officially I only started making the song when I arrived back in Copenhagen on 30 dec, so technically I am within the one week rule, btw! Not that it matters that much. But it does matter that on 31 dec I was SUPER LUCKY to get a good deal on my brand new Korg SV-2S, an electric piano I've had my eyes on. And I used it for this tune. It's a pleasure to play it, such a wonderful spaceship of a thing. You will hear a LOT from it in the coming months.
What about the lyrics tho? What's this about the beginner? It's both about my dad and his new life as a guitarist superstar and about my endless pursuit of learning and seeing things from the perspective of a beginner. And the drive to push towards getting better and getting there no matter the cost. I also was inspired by swing dancing which I've become kind of addicted to over the last year or so. And of course I had some nice dance partners, one or let's be fair, a few of which are the inspirations for the second verse!
Alright, again I am super glad to be back, and I can't wait to hear what everybody is making!!! CHEERS and LET'S GO WEEKLYBEATS 2026, FROM THE BEGINNING!!!!!!
Please enjoy the music from yours truly, THE BEGINNER himself a.k.a. me!!!
OH I forgot to say, I also filmed myself performing some of the takes, and made a quick and dirty video!!! Sadly the piano is not the correct take because I lost that one (and also I spliced the piano performance among ~4 different takes) but who cares!
Enjoy the video and give it some algorithm love!
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