Playing around with loops on Garage Band. This was my first full-length song that I put together. Enjoy!

Dance Dance DJ

With each new track I learn something new or experiment just a little further than before. Not usually even on purpose, I just find I need something more or different as I go along and that leads me down a new avenue. It’s really been so fun playing with garageband. It’s the best! :) Anyway, once again I basically have 2 songs in one here. I honestly do not know how to avoid doing this. Maybe just with time I’ll get better. But yeah, I wanted to do an Eastern thing this time (I also have another eastern one I’m working on but it is not finished yet). I did A LOT of automation on this one & for the first time recorded with FX. You have to do them live while recording so it is a bitch if you’re not good at it, which I am not. 😆 But I’m still happy with the 2 little bits I did in there. Can’t wait to get better at it, tho. Anyway, listening to this with headphones is the best way, trust me. There’s a bunch of fun panning LtoR stuff in the beginning and it just sounds way better overall with headphones. Just mind the volume, especially towards the end, those asian instruments don’t mess around when it comes to your eardrums. :) Anyway, I hope y’all enjoy! ❤️

Eastern Diddy

I snagged that awesome photo on a google search, it's PERRFECTT! I believe the artist is @gePanta on Twitter. But whoever did it, Thank you for making the perfect picture that I needed for this song. :) Ok, so my daughter @dori-the-dork is a massive YTTD fan and I was messing around on Garage Band with loops to make a song and she goes, "Whoa! Stop! That's from the YTTD game!! Oh my God!" So we started going thru the loops and found a bunch of them that were used for the game's soundtrack. So I wanted to work on the track & make the whole thing together but she decided she wanted to be *air quotes* independent and do her own thing...no, I'm NOT bitter. Heh heh...anywho, so we decided instead to make it a bit of a competition so to speak, I mean we weren't REALLY competing but more like two chefs get the same ingredients, let see what each one makes, y'know? :) So this is my humble offering. I had a lot of fun with it and dug a little deeper into effects and automation, etc. I enjoyed it and am learning new stuff all the time. Thanks for reading all of that haha and thanks even more for listening. Enjoy! ❤️

Your Turn to DIAL (YTTD Mix)

A Far Country 1 (aka Country Eastern 1)
Country Eastern was my original title, but people are SO averse to anything labelled Country or even remotely related to it, that I decided against it. :) I didn't want people to reject it before even listening to it. At least listen to it first and THEN you can hate it! 😊 This was originally one song but it was too long (hey that rhymes!), and the second half was truly like a separate song, as much as I tried my best to merge them, I just couldn't quite. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So, yeah I did my best to split these in half and 1 of course leads directly into 2, so if you can listen to them back-to-back that's truly the best way, to get the full feel and scope of the song. :) 
I REALLY had a fun time with this one, it also was a total bitch, too but overall it was still fun. I learned a lot and the story behind this song is as follows:
So, as you may have noticed I like to make songs in different genres. I like mixing genres especially. It thrills my freakin soul to hear genres blended together well. So I've been trying to choose a different genre with each song I make and so one of the ones I hadn't tried yet was country or bluegrass or anything like that. I truly do love music of ALL kinds and I love the idea of taking genres that so many despise and presenting it in another wrapper and then seeing them enjoying that genre. That's just f@&%ing amazing to me. So, I went in with the mindset of making a Country or bluegrass song and then was super-bummed to find only like 4 loops that were in any way Country/Western/Bluegrass. That's just sad to me but whatevs. So, then I start just going thru hundreds upon hundreds of Strings loops hoping to find a fiddle hidden in there or just something that would piece together nicely with the 4 country loops I had. Then I found what I had discovered at the end of 60's/70's Withers pt. 2, the amazing fusion of Country and Asian. It blew my frickin mind not only how much of the Eastern music and instruments flawlessly went along with the banjos, fiddles & guitars but even more than that is that about 80%, at least, of this song is actually all Eastern instruments. There are so many that you will be convinced are DEFINITELY the Country ones and couldn't possibly be Eastern but 9 times out of 10, you'd be wrong. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I would too! Haha I still can't believe it and I know which ones are which! 😂 So anyway, so in a nutshell that's how Country Eastern was born. Thanks so much for reading and for listening! ❤️

A Far Country 1

So, my other YTTD track (Your Turn to Dial) came from me and my daughter @dori-the-dork working separately on the same basic song. We both had that same underlying YTTD song and then could go whichever way we chose with it. So, what I came up with was Your Turn to Dial & she came up with Your Turn to Date. When I listened to her version, I loved what she had done with it but I also immediately started hearing a remix of it in my head (I think it just automatically happens at this point when my mind is music making mode haha) so I took her track and remixed it, putting my own spin on it. It was weird tho reusing a piece I had used in one of my pervious songs (that one piece from Industrial Revolution)but I just stuck with all the pieces she had chosen and she had just so happened to pick that piece, so oh well. It was interesting to hear it in a different context. Remixes are SO fun! I feel like the options are almost limitless. And that applies to that main YTTD track (as we are calling it)as the backbone of both of our tracks. Just so neat to hear them interpreted different ways. Anywho, so then she decided she wanted to go a different route with it and make it into an 8-bit version, like she does with all her other tracks on here. I can't wait to hear what she does with it. I'm sure it'll be super cool sounding. Anyway, so thanks for listening and please enjoy! 😊❤️

Your Turn to DATE (Loop Dee Loo Version)

Can you ever have too much Techno? Methinks not. Enjoy! Hopefully ;)

Techno Shmecno

***UPDATED: The “producer” part of my brain just kept taking over with this one once I had it posted. I just knew there needed to be an extra little high vocal at the end of that first vocal loop. I think it sounds much better now with it. I think I also tweaked one other small thing. Idk 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😆***

This was a fun little diddy I whipped up tonight. I had a lot of fun with it. I really dig the 80’s vibe to it. Warning that the little synth bit at the end ALMOST sounds off-key or dischordant but it is not. And I pitch-shifted the piece up twice (one at a 5th interval and 1 at full octave above) and layered them on top of each other & then gradually removed the layers until only one remained and then I put a bunch of reverb and echo on it to end it. Anyway, I really enjoyed making it and I hope you enjoy it! Thanks so much for listening! ❤️❤️❤️

Seven Deadly Synths *UPDATED*

Wanted to do something with a piano focus, and so Piano Politics was born. ;) I did a lot more editing of individual loops with this one to make them line up in different ways and stuff. Had fun with this one. I couldn’t quite get it to all come together until I had the idea to add a vocal and that was what ended up really “tying the room together”. 😊 Vocals were what was missing. I’m really starting to realize the importance of vocals and how they transform songs, take them to a whole new dimension. Anyway, thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy! ❤️

Piano Politics

Calling this Breakfast Dub but idk that this can actually be called Dubstep. Idk…I mean there’s no “transformers having sex” but I still think it has a little bit of a dubby sound. But actually CLUB is probs more accurate but whatevs. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Put this one together pretty fast, just a fun short little diddy that I liked. :) Hope you enjoy!

Breakfast Dub

Club Ado About Nothing

Chill & Grace

Club You See is Club You Get

I was trying to do something clubby and thought why not check out that Dua Lipa remix session thingy that they have on Garageband and see if there’s anything in there I can use to sample and spruce it up a bit. But then it kinda ended up taking over the song, to the point that it really can’t be called anything BUT a Break My Heart Remix now. Oh well 🤷🏻‍♀️😊 It is what it is. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy it. ❤️

Dua Lipa - Break My Heart (Remix)

Club Lies Underneath

Thelonious Funk

https://soundcloud.com/emilynmusic?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

@emilynmusic

Give Peace a Dance - ft. Emilyn

https://soundcloud.com/steelyvibe?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

@farishamusic

https://soundcloud.com/stephaniekay?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Piano Smoke - ft. Honey Beats, Steelyvibe, Farisha & Stephanie Kay **UPDATED**

I’m trying to help my son how to put a song together on garageband. But most of the time he just wants to layer like 60 loops on top of each other, so that you can barely distinguish sounds from each other. So in an attempt to try and work thru the process with him, I took the pieces he had picked out and turned them into a song. He liked it but still says he thinks his is “awesome sounding”. 😆 Trying to teach him certain basics of song structure, etc without squashing his creativity and ability to think outside the box. Eventually i’ll have him put up his version which is actually more on the Industrial side so far. Very heavy. Mainly because it’s seriously like 30 loops all layered on top of each other…trying to explain to him the conceot of cacophonies as well, haha but whatevs. 😆😉

David’s Song (LDL Version) **UPDATED**

Buffalo Chills - ft. Steelyvibe

Meant to be listened to directly after From Russia with Love.

From Russia with Love - Pt 2 (feat. Shamoozey)

*MEANT TO BE FOLLOWED DIRECTLY BY PART 2*

The first part of this track was made from loops on Mix Mate.

From Russia With Love - Pt. 1 (feat. Shamoozey)

I’ve loved music all my life, all genres (except most latin & most big band jazz), but I have always been too afraid to make any of my own. But playing around with loops on Garage Band allows me to ease into the “game” without technically making any music of my own. It also allows me to learn placement and editing and a lot of other crucial things I need to learn. Plus, it gets me comfortable with the basic idea and process of putting together a song. It’s so much fun! Hopefully eventually I’ll actually be making “real” original music. 😊 Enjoy! ❤️

Also, do check out my daughter, @dori-the-dork

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