I haven't been working very much on music lately, been trying to get the rest of life in order. Just moved into a new place, etc.

But I worked on this some tonight, and need to add a few more sections, but it's shaping up. 

I'll be posting more acoustic guitar stuff soon, as well. So horray.

Enjoy my attempts at making electronic music with mostly "classical" music theory knowledge.

Draft V3

Gosh... I haven't really posted anything though I've been sporadically working on a bunch of stuff. I threw this together in basically the time it took to record the actual track, just so I had something to post. 

This solo is absolutely iconic, and this is how I play the intro usually when playing solo acoustic. Hope you dig it. 

ps: sorry it's so quiet, I promise it's not a screamer.

I'm going to try to post more stuff soon.. just now finally finishing up the new place move-in process. 

Peace love and melodies.

Intro to Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here

So here's the thing I've been working on for the past few days, I like the first hook but I'm having some issues with the modulation from A minor to C major... the C major work is sounding too "bright" for me (maybe not so on its own, but when contrasted with the opening in A minor it's kind of off) in this as of this revision, and I'm going to try and tap into the (oft unseen) side of C major that is the Solemn C major.

And yes, while I know in most cases one should discard something that's not "working for the song", my goal here is to practice modulation, so hopefully I can flesh it out. 

Anyway, this will eventually become an entire song and I'll actually make it sound good. This is for demonstration of composition only... I programmed the synth in literally about 45 seconds and haven't altered the drum samples all that much. Please do not interpret this draft as an example of my technical prowess. 

I felt like talking a lot into this little box... tl;dr enjoy the song

Aug 28th Draft

So a buddy of mine heard the earlier version of this cover and wanted to add something to it, and in the end I really dig the second guitar part. I think it differentiates this cover from the original, and filled a space that was empty in the first draft.

I love this song, Sam Beam of Iron and Wine is a genius and a lot of my guitar composition is inspired by his brilliant fingerpicking style.

Enjoy!

This is a re-mixed version of the same thing I've previously uploaded. JUst tightening stuff up, hopefully improving it.

Naked As We Came V4.5

I've been toying with this for the past week or so, it's almost in it's final form, just more tweaking and a few more melody rewrites. Just something I'm having fun with.

Hope you enjoy.

P.S. Yes, I named this song after what the Stalkers say when they spawn in SC2.
P.S.S. Yes, I know the ending is really really silly borderline terrible. BUT HEY, GOGOGO FAST RUNS.

Fall Back To The Shadows (Original)

So here's a piece I've been toying with for about three days now. I still have to finish mixing and mastering chores, but I think I've got the arrangement almost right.

My goal with electronic music is to really think about the melodies and stuff I'm putting into it. The result tends to be not quite what people might expect but I like it. I have an odd taste in melody, and using the E Dorian mode for the melodies and basslines in this made it a fun experience... it also resulted in the crazy weird stuff you hear here. :]

Hope you enjoy!

Control Voltage (Original)

So this is something I've been working on for the past few weeks. I've always been a big fan of dulcimer music, and wanted to use a sample library featuring this wonderful instrument. 

It's not perfect, and there are still a lot of things I need to flesh out and get right in the mix, but I like how the composition is coming along.

Draft for Dulcimer And Flute In F Minor

I've been working on this for a little while, about a week off and on. It's mostly finished, and even the things that are off probably won't get any attention for a while so I figured I'd release it as is. 

Goal here was to write a simple yet musically neat piece in the common electronic key of A minor. Also I really wanted to elaborate on the opening theme with the sitar, so that was fun. 

Enjoy. 

Arrow Child (Original)

here's a super super noisy compressed to hell I-spent-fourty-seconds-on-the-audio-quality cover of Adrian Legg's The Irish Girl that's totally full of mistakes and missing like 2 sections I can't play well. 

word, yo.

Adrian Legg's The Irish Girl (cover, acoustic guitar)

I decided to learn this song today, and I liked what I did with it, so I decided to record it the same day that I learned it. This is my excuse for any inaccuracies. 

I love Ray LaMontagne, and this song is one of my favourites of his. I hope you enjoy. 

Will do more with this, I like how it's coming along.

Lyrics (some variation from as recorded):

Laid the blessings on the ground
Softening of sound draws us closed again
Stay, stay and watch the coals
Till they cease to glow, like empty promises

Why, why did you go?
Why did you go away?
Why, why did you go?
Why did you go away baby?

There's nothing I can say, nothing I can do
To bring you back again
This, of life I know is true
It's all a falling through, and so I reach for you

Why, why did you go?
Why did you go away?
Why, why did you go?
Why did you go away?

Don't you care? It may seem unfair
Steal the things you ought to borrow
Don't you find it may seem unkind?
I'd rather breathe than drown in sorrow

Why, why did you go?
Why did you go away?
Why, why did you go?
Why did you go away baby?


A Falling Through (Ray LaMontagne cover)

I haven't messed with electronic music in a while, and decided to tinker a bit. This is what came out, and as I had set out to make a silly song, I think I accomplished my goal. 

This piece is in G Dorian with a bridge that modulates to A Dorian, for those interested in the nerdy stuff behind the craziness. There are also tons of chromatic runs, hence the name of the piece. 

I tried to keep the instrumentation to a minimum, so there are only two synths, and then drum and effect tracks. 

Atonal Entropy (Original)

This is a composition I've been toying with, just now I redid the mix and tweaked some EQ and compression settings. It's coming along decently, though I'll probably go over it once more and tighten up some of the composition. 

I've been messing with electronic music a little more, but I have a desire to use my knowledge of concert music  to make electronic... and this kind of stuff is the result of that awkward process.

Hope you enjoy.

Embellishment (Original)

Just a note, I do not currently have suitable monitors so ALL files here are preliminary headphone mixes, and thus are best listened to WITH headphones. Some effects may be out of stereo phase if listening on stereo satellite speakers. 

Glocky

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