I made most of this at 3 in the morning. It's in 3/4 time. The outro is fairly jazzy. It's all in the title really.

3am waltz gratuitously jazzy outro

This is basically me just practicing some jazz chords. I do two different melodic minor scales over a minor 2-5-1 in there somewhere, so that's pretty neat. I'll probably return to this at some point.

No name 1

Another mini-beat, drums loop thing...I didn't spend more than 10 minutes on this but I've decided to try to write something every day or so with the aim of improving at producing/composing. I'm uploading everything because I figure that doing this publicly (though not that anyone reads these anyway) will incentivise me to stick to it for longer. It's often not going to be *entirely* new music because inspiration is limited and volatile etc etc. So with that in mind, I'll try to go back to and improve/add to old and unfinished songs (there are so many clogging up my mac) like Cosmic snooker and minecraft aquarium when I can't muster up anything brand new. Feel free to stick around, help yourself to some complimentary cake (just kidding there's no cake), and bully me into staying with this for a little while.

Honey, I shrunk the beat!

Day 1 (DementiaUK song-writing fundraiser): This is a *very* long way from being done, but I'm tired of working on it for tonight and I thought I'd upload something to show I've been keeping up my end of things. I'm not in love with this one but I will return to it. Jazz keyboard piano jam, was thinking partly of Jim Morrison and the Doors with some of the lead breaks. I'll the spend the next couple of days or so trying to drag this out to 3 or 4 minutes and making LOTS of improvements probably with texturing, timing, additional instruments.

No name 2 (WIP)

Unfinished. I’m usually avoid the chord progression 1-6-4-5-1 because it’s overused (songs like Georgia on my mind, the Casablanca theme, and cannon in D are very famous ones that use this) I gave it a try here, added some more chords, and tried to jazz it up a bit...

I'll come back to this and fix the drums, add passing chords on the acoustic piano, and try to do more interesting keyboard breaks (after I work out some more scales that would work with the chords). I’ll probably spend the next couple of days working on this, so next upload will be on Saturday or Sunday.

DementiaUK (day 2): Constellations of carbon

This one has an interesting feel to it, was partly reminded of old nintendo boss fight music. Wrote this for guitar but my interface has given up on me, so here is with synths.

DementiaUK (day3): I wrote this for guitar but my interface won't work....:'(

Sorry this is a bit poorly recorded. I don't have an interface that works so it's just an acoustic guitar held up to my Macbook...As simple as it gets. I've been playing Guitar hero 3 with my friend all weekend so my brain has been stewing in rock and metal rhythms, this is (apparently) the result. I really like the chord changes in this one, so I'd like to come back to it and write some lyrics before this month is out.

DementiaUK (Day 4): Acoustic guitar riff

Some cocktail piano I started writing today. Still a long way to go.... Need to sort out some of the timing, stretch it out to 2 minutes and add double bass and ambient drums.

DementiaUK(day 5): Don't judge by your own standards (WIP)

I don't especially like this, but that's to be expected occasionally when you're writing every day. This one reminded me of the cave ambience in the first Jack & Daxter game on the PS2.

DementiaUK(Day 6): Spider cave

I hit a bunch of keys with my leg and then made a beat around it

hoobly smoobly

I was trying to emulate Japanese smooth jazz (Hiroshi Suzuki, Ryo Fukui)and I created this. 

A song about being chased by some unseen horror in a dream, and you can run with all the control of the character in that QWOP flash game...Thought the bass-line had some kind of panicked quality to it.

Dream-running down a hallway

Longitudinal waves that make me feel ways about stuff.
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