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Au Revoir

By Kedbreak136 on January 1, 2023 1:14 pm

Here is a semi speed trash to finish the year. I wish I was more inspired for the final track, but hey a track is a track. 

One of the things I have learnt doing weekly tracks since February 2020 is that there will be weeks where the inspiration strikes and the track just writes itself. And there are weeks where it's a grind, where things just do not work, where you are digging for a spring but all the land is dry. However, there is no celebration in writing a track when it does it by itself. Writing a track when there is just really nothing happening in your head, when the muse has decided to go on vacation without even leaving a phone number, that is the real challenge and doing it is the ultimate success. The hard lesson learnt with weekly beats, that has made me appreciate and love when magic happens, but also welcome the grind when it comes, and when one just needs to get the work done. Weekly beats teaches us humility, teaches us to get better at our craft, and teaches us to enjoy the process as there is no end. The doing is the point.

I hope to see the lot of you in 2024! 

You made it!  Another tight track regardless of inspiration and the production sounds great. 

See you in a years time!  smile

We made it across the finish line and this track sounds like victory Loving those arps at 1:00 and solo at 2:00.  One last eagle screech for the year! Respect. Happy New Year! I've really enjoyed listening to your tracks this year.  More in 2024 smile

super excellent production again. the sounds of your synths are awesome. the high energylevel you are blessed with, is always omnipresent in your music. the arrangements are impressive and rich in variety. the motives of samples and styles are exceptional. you are a professional in my ears. the comments you write are very good and prove your expertise as a really good musician. have a very good new year. with best regards.

All those fast synth runs are super cool. WB has definitely taught me to keep pushing through the down weeks and that there's usually something cool that comes out of those as well.  And if not, there's always next week to try again.  Hope 2023 is a good one for you and hopefully see you here in 2024!

Yes! Lifts me up, I feel it, take me with you!

Congrats on 52 weeks and Happy New Year! heart

lol "the muse has decided to go on vacation without even leaving a phone number"

you are so right.  I'm so grateful to have met you because you really have taught me about "loving the grind" and the humility of just showing up, punching the clock, doing your best, and then walking away without shame.

We're not creators so much as we are dutiful custodians of a gift that we were blessed with.

The awesome tracks are when we are lucky, but it's funny: speedtrash actually shows us who we really are.

And if you do enough speedtrash, your baseline levels up!

This is a great track!  Hot breaks, hot arps, only missing the pitch shifted dinosaur scream but it's fun!

Happy New Year, this last year was the year of us talking for the first time and I will never forget it!

MUSIC THEORY SQUAD 2023

さよなら!

Nice energy to finish the year off, absolutely understand how some weeks just fall into place and others drag on to get something done.  Have really enjoyed all your tracks all year, in particular all the different ideas you tried out and of course always enjoy your creativity in story telling.

Dear Ked this is a dope ass song, no question! You are a true inspiration in music and discipline, and have consistently delivered high quality tracks no matter if your self-reported inspiration is high or low. Confident sounding, high energy, and humorous in a very classy way. Great to read your thoughts on the different tracks, both your own and others (and mine - thanks so much for those!). Thanks so much for being part of WB and an honor to meet you! Best wishes in 2023 and catch you later!

Well said. smile Happy New Year, and excellent work wrapping up the last one!

So long, and thanks for all the fish ... and seagulls! And thanks for all the great music this year, it's been so great enjoying your songs this year and hearing about your process and inspirations. I appreciate all your awesome comments as well, always looked forward to those. For some semi-speed trash this is semi-speeding along, and has me moving! The arps are spectacular shimmering, nice outro section, soaring!
I just followed you on youtube from both my channels (I'm @augustmiles and @creaturesonce on there), and maybe I'll see you on the Discord. Have a great 2023, and hope to see you back here in 24 too!

Hey, also I love your track notes above. So true! All about just showing up!

Yessss I love this. I love how insistent the bass is, and then it just winds through the chorus. Really enjoyed hearing your tracks this year, have a great 2023!

I feel like there's this unreasonable expectation (placed upon ourselves, not others) that the final track should be the culmination of our potential and that we must create the best work possible. But yeah, we wrote some pretty banging tracks this year so we shouldn't worry about Week 52 having to be the best.

That said, I enjoyed this track and thought it was a fine way to end the year smile. Might have been speedy but it's not trash.

I'm also with you on having learned some of the same lessons I think. I'm trying to treat my failures or my lack of inspiration/magic as moments to just experiment and maybe focus on some other element in the music. The grind can be productive in other ways than we'd expect. That humility bit is especially important, we need to learn to be ok with not meeting our own expectations. Congrats on another year, Kedbreak! Lets stay connected through discord and I'll see you on here again in 2024 smile

(Also I saw that you're releasing some albums this year so I'm going to keep up on those)

Always a fan of your tracks especially because of the fast paced onslaught of beats and arps smile  You def summed WB best.  Feel your pain when that muse is missing too.  I hope you have an awesome 2023 and see you in 24!  Happy New Year!

Well done, you crushed it all the way to the end. I reckon you'll keep going, but either way, happy new year.
- Devieus

i'm still not sure i understand what speedtrash is smile but this track is great - it's always interesting to hear the beautiful or interesting tracks made when people are uninspired! the magic of WB
wishing you all the best in 2023!  thank you for all of the really thoughtful comments this year!

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