Today's date is twelve, twelve, twenty-one.

12 - 12 - 21

The instrumental for Cookie Cat! Made with LSDJ!

Cookie Cat Instrumental

I was messing around on the keyboard and I came up with an idea for a song. Imagine walking down enchanted corridors ooooo!

Corridors

This is the arrangement I did for the opening song, minus Rebecca's vocals! Featuring violin played by Joe Johnston!!

Steven Universe Opening Instrumental Demo

This is a song about Bark Bark the dog's magical adventure. (made in LSDJ!)

Bark Bark!

Hi Soundcloud it's been a while

I made a song called "BORING & USELESS"!!

MUSIC VIDEO ON YOUTUBE:
https://youtu.be/A31CQf2ucVQ

BORING & USELESS

The original demo for Steven and the Stevens!
This song is in the key of G. In the show we had to raise it up to Bb because it was a little too deep for Steven/Zach's voice.
G Em
 Can't you see it in my eyes
 C
 I'm the one I'm the
 C7
 ONE TWO THREE FOUR 
G Em 
I'm not like the other guys
 C D 
(he's not like anybody, well..)
 C
 That's not completely right 
Cm
 There's a few that I'm just like 
G Am7 
Steven and the Stevens
 C G
 We're gonna make you smile
 G Am7 
Me myself and I and him
 C D G
 Are all the same guy
 G Am7 
Steven and the Stevens
 C G
 Come on now don't be shy
 G Am7
 Me myself and I and him (That's me!) 
C D G
 Are all the same guy


Steven and the Stevens Demo

The demo for the ending song of Steven and the Stevens!

G Em
 Can't you see it in our eyes
 C
We're the one we're the
 C7
 ONE TWO THREE FOUR 
G Em 
We're not like the other guys
 C D 
(we're not like anybody)
 C
By the way don't go back in time
Cm
Or you'll destroy yourself
G Am7 
Steven and the Crystal Gems
 C G
 We're gonna make you smile
 G Am7 
I accidentally created
 C D G
An alternate timeline
 G Am7 
Steven and the Crystal Gems
 C G
 Come on now don't be shy
 G Am7
I learned to stay true to myself
Cm7 Gmaj7
By watching myself die

Steven and the Crystal Gems Demo

ONE TWO THREE FOUR
G Bb F Db
Steven's a big fat meanie
G Bb F Db
A big fat mean zucchini
G Bb G Bb
Let's chop it up chop chop it up
G Bb Db
Serve it with linguini
G Db
Al dente! Al dente! Al dente! Al dente!

Big Fat Zucchini Demo

Feeling moody as the year turns, recorded on 1/31/23

New Year's Eve

Haven't composed music in a while. Here's a goofy thing I made in GarageBand!

Get Back Into It

Fall Is Almost Over

This is the full version of the music that plays during Steven's dream in Lion 3: Straight to Video. Joe and I were scheduled to pitch our storyboards one day, but something came up and we had to postpone the pitch. I stayed in the conference room and started making up a silly song in GarageBand while I waited. Later on I thought it would be fun to use that song for the scene in Lion 3! It turned out to be weirdly appropriate for Dogcopter's speech. I had a lot of fun writing the dialogue for this scene with some assistance from Rebecca. There's some ideas in there that I feel really strongly about and it's really cool that they could make it into the show!

The Pitch Got Delayed

This is the original recording for Greg's guitar playing in Lion 3: Straight to Video, recorded in the backyard of my parents' house while I was on hiatus from work. I wanted it to sound pretty, but a bit vague and mysterious too.

Greg On The Beach

I made this demo for the scenes inside of Lion's mane in Lion 3: Straight to Video. When I boarded the scenes that take place in the mane, I thought it would be cool to play some music during the board pitch. I wanted it to be disorienting and weird so I reversed the track, and had it gradually build up with more layers getting weirder and weirder until Steven reaches the tree and it starts playing forward coherently. The track plays backwards up until 1:39 and then it starts playing forward.
I sent this demo to Aivi and Surasshu and they did the awesome version that's in the final episode!

Lion's Mane Demo

I made some music, I hope it’s cool. Is this cool?

Is This Cool?

Here's the demo I made for On the Run! Featuring amazing vocals by Katie Mitroff for Amethyst's part. This one was kind of a puzzle for me. I originally wrote the song in D major, but I had to adjust it to B-flat to fit both Steven and Amethyst's voice actors' ranges. My voice is really low so Steven sings an octave higher than me in the final version.

On the Run Demo

Some acoustic guitar I recorded for the No Home Boys scene in On the Run! If you listen closely at the end you can hear the soda machine at the studio making some crazy machine noises.

No Home Boys

Waiting for nothing 
only to find
the sweet relief

that nothing was here all along

Waiting For Nothing

Couldn't sleep last night so I played some guitar to relax. Listening to the recording actually helped me fall asleep!

Here's the demo I arranged for Stronger Than You! Rebecca recorded the vocals and omnichord track, and I put everything else together in Logic. We used this track to figure out the timing for the action sequence and for Estelle to sing to. Aivi and Surasshu then made it a billion times more awesome for the final version!!

Stronger Than You - Demo (feat. Rebecca Sugar)

I recorded this acoustic version of Rose's theme for the end of Story for Steven! (It's a little hard to hear in the episode mix which just has the rhythm guitar beneath the dialogue.)

Rose's Theme Acoustic

Wrote the chiptune part a while ago. I finally recorded some guitar and put it all together!
LSDJ + electric guitar

Tumbling Down

I wrote this song like four or five years ago? Trying to practice singing.

Something about the space between
The blankets on your bed
Something about the way we feel
When we see the color red
Something about somebody
Who sometimes acted like someone
There must be something in the air that's keeping me
From getting anything done

I'd like to take it easy
But there's so much stuff to do
I'll blame it on the weather
I'll blame it on you

It's too damn cold to wake up
I roll over and close my eyes
Like some kind of cold-blooded reptile
Curl up and stay inside
Or it's too damn hot
To stay standing
I could shrivel up and die
In a puddle of perspiration
Beneath a blisteringly pretty blue sky

I feel a bit distracted
I think I'll drink a cup of tea
I'll blame it on the weather
I'll blame it on me

Blame It On The Weather

Haha I couldn't play it all the way through without messing up. Some jazzy poops at the end.
Played on an out of tune upright piano at the airbnb I stayed at during Comic Con.

600 AD piano sketch

Here's my demo for Amethyst's song in Cry for Help! Bonus intro guitar loops at the beginning- they play backwards over the end of the song.

maybe you're better off with her
i think she's better for you
i forgot how great it felt to be us
guess i got carried away...

i had to use you to make me feel strong
but i don't care about that now
i see a tower built out of my mistakes
and it all comes crashing down

is there something i can do?

can i make it up to you?


Tower of Mistakes (demo)

The instrumental track for Tower of Mistakes!

Tower of Mistakes (instrumental)

reverse loops + improv guitar and throat noises

From an album of old songs I wrote from 2007-2011. I'm finally going to try to finish recording them so I can move on with my life!
This is one of my first songs I wrote in high school. It was really basic back then, but it got a bit more interesting as I learned about music over the years. This version has LSDJ which I definitely couldn't do back then. I still can't sing it that well, but whatever moving on!!
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I'm in need of a good pair of socks
right now my head feels like a cardboard box
right now my head feels like a bottle of water
it's not my problem so why should I bother

would you please repeat what you said
you look better than a loaf of bread
you look better than a bucket of lobsters
sometimes I wish I was a helicopter

I can't believe you can remember my name
if I was taller would I still be so lame
if I was taller could I get on this ride
we should get going but we can't fit inside

I think there's something wrong with my head
there's something hiding under my bed
there's something that I think I should tell you
I was gonna but I guess I forgot to

I think I'm alive
I think I think I'm not a porcupine
and each time I thought
I wasn't doing alright
I was doing just fine

wo oh oh

maybe someday it'll happen to you
it'll be nice when I know what to do
it'll be nice when we see that day
well for now I'll stand back and I'll say

I think I'm alive
I think I think I'm not a porcupine
and each time I thought
I wasn't doing alright
I was doing just fine

I think I'm alive
I think there's something that I should have known
that's something I think I thought I knew
I already know

Jeff Liu

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