It totally occurred to me that I write all these demos but I'm not uploading them. Welp, I have officially started again. And this time, it's with my personal first attempt at Synthwave.

Synthwave

I was offered to be on a podcast where the host would send a clip and you had to take that riff and kind of "flip" it, or, make it your own if that makes sense. I opened up with the riff provided, no editing, but wanted to mess around with time signatures in this one. The transition to the acoustic is REALLY wonky because of the way the clip originally ends but I think that's fast forgotten once the lead comes in. I was actually also writing a 2000s metalcore inspired song at the same time for a contest so a lot of traditional type riffage spilled over on this one, but I do really like it. It's tough, it's melodic, it changes signatures and tempos, then at the end it wraps up with a callback to the original riff. I think it's super cool and you can tell how far I've come listening back to my other cringe music.

Podimprov

A collaborative effort by some heavy hitters.

Venomous Grace - Hell Is Bright

Off Limits

Simple Minded (Collaboration with Nicholas Thomas)

I wanted to come back with something a little different and I was able to do that thanks to the fantastic Riff Master T (check him out here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wjGVxm1Zl3sXO67uN2Btg). There's some very prevalent influences that come out in this song (Howard, Rob, Chester) but I've never done a "Nu-Metal"-ish song so that's why I have that rap in there. This isn't one of my favorites but it was nice finding a song. I love the groove, the bridge, the random guy that put this on YouTube really did a good job (although I personally think the bass could be more present). Anyway, enjoy. The ending is the best part!

Self Worth (Collaboration with Riff Master T)

Gojira (Collaboration with Riff Master T)

This is a demo of what's currently in the works with an AWESOME musician Aaron Chaparian. I sent him off the vocals and the song structure along with the "vision" per se, and he knocked it out of the fucking park, over the river, through the woods, out of the atmosphere. He doesn't know it yet, but I'm gonna see if we can make a sort of EP together. And if he's down, I already got a name, logo, brand and everything for the project. Let me know if y'all would like me available for this to download because if not then I'll just leave it, but you already know I'm a man of the people so ask and ye shall receive.

Witch Trials

Witch Trials (unmastered)

I've been taking music classes so it's caused me to heavily expand my horizons. I was working on an assignment and wanted to find a good electric piano. While I don't think my DAW (Mixcraft 8) has the best sounding one, it does have a useable one. So just while diddling around I fell upon a pretty somber chord progression and looped it. My mind, for whatever reason, immediately associated it with lofi so I threw some rain in there, some edited vocals, and a supple sax and boom. Lofi. I also made it for a friend of mine. He was stationed in Japan and sent me a very thoughtful care package, so the best gift to give back in my opinion is something timeless. Music. The song is to his personal tastes, but nevertheless it's still music and it deserves to be shared with the world.

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