Having fun with Garage Band. This is one of my first full songs. After doing a few straight-up dance tracks, I decided to try my hand at something that had a more industrial feel. Nine Inch Nails is definitely a partial inspiration for this. Enjoy! ❤️

Industrial Revolution

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

Dance Dance DJ

Playing around with loops on Garage Band. Decided to try my hand at some Dubstep. :)

StubDep

This is meant to be listened to directly after StubDep, as the end of StubDep is the beginning of this one. :) But this one is actually not in the dubstep style. I ended up going a different direction with it. Then my son (he has autism and doesn’t understand things like trying to record a song 😆) decided to start reading Sneetches out loud to me while I was working on this track & idk, I just loved it. I’ve never really done anything successfully with vocals before so this is my first real attempt. Unfortunately, I still am not skilled enough at Garage Band to have made the vocals crystal and crisp and sometimes they get a little lost in the mix. Ugh. But this is all a learning process, so I’m trying to just have grace, patience and understanding with myself. And hopefully y’all will too. ;) Enjoy! ❤️

The “lyrics” are as follows (from The Sneetches by: Dr. Seuss): 
When the star-belly Sneetches had frankfurter roasts or picnics or parties or marshmallow toasts, they never invited the plain-belly Sneetches. They left them out cold in the dark of the beaches. They kept them away, never let them come near and that’s how they treated them year after year. 

And one day it seems all the plain-belly Sneetches were moping and doping alone on the beaches, just sitting there wishing their bellies had stars, a stranger zipped up in the strangest of cars. 

Then they yelled at the ones who had stars at the start, we’re exactly like you, you can’t tell us apart. We’re all just the same now, you snooty old smarties and now we can go to your frankfurter parties! Good grief!groaned the ones who had stars at the first, well, we’re still the best Sneetches and they are the worst! But now how in the world will we know they all frowned if which kind is what or the other way round? 

Then when every last cent of their money was spent, the fix-it-up chappie packed up and he went. And he laughed as he drive in his car off the beach, saying “They never will learn, no you can’t teach a Sneetch!” But McBean was quite wrong, I’m quite happy to say that the Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches and no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day all the Sneetches forgot about stars...

And whether they had one or not upon thars..

StubDep pt. 2

I was messing around with loops on Garage band (like ya do) and I came across a bunch of loops that gave off a real 60’s/70’s/Bill Withers vibe. And, of course, I love Bill Withers & that entire genre. So, I started putting them together and quickly ran into trouble. :) I realized that really what I had was two separate songs here so then I split them and made a pt. 2, which I will upload later. Basically, I had sooo many loops that sounded amazing that I kept adding too much and in essence starting new songs. The original of this track was a version of this and a version of pt. 2. So, I took the 2nd half of this, put it into pt. 2 and then I ended up with the same problem with pt. 2 & had to take off the end of that one and start another track with that. Omggg. So, I apologize if when listening to this it seems choppy or like two separate songs. I tried my best. Maybe one day when I am better at all of this stuff I will come back and be able to do all these tracks better justice. Thanks for listening! Enjoy! ❤️

60s-70s-Withers

This was made from the 2nd half of pt. 1. It ended up becoming its own song so I split them into 2. After Industrial Revolution this one is probs my fave. I especially love the melding of the sitar into the country-western stuff at the end. It was so fun to piece together & I just love the sound of it all mixed together. Since I love almost all genres, hearing them all put together in fun ways puts a big smile on my face. :) It’s one of the reasons why I love Twenty One Pilots so much and bands like them. Anyway, hope y’all like it. Thanks for listening! ❤️

60s-70s-Withers 2.0

Having fun with GarageBand loops. My favorite instrument in the world is violin & so I had a lot of fun with this one and experimenting with strings. This one was also hard to nail down to a specific movement because there were so many loops I wanted to use and so it may at times feel like different songs instead of one solid one but ultimately I think it turned out ok. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I had fun makin it, anyway. 😊 Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy it! ❤️

Gassical Class

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

**UPDATED** I brought down the mix a little on the opening keyboard bit because its trebelly nature was practically ear-splitting. Whoops! 🤷🏻‍♀️😆**
Wanted to try a song with an 80’s pop-ish feel this time. It’s like a 70/30 split of 80’s pop and straight up techno/electronica. I’m happy with how it turned out ultimately. Not perfect, but y’know, what is? Lots of automation work and playing around with some echo & reverb but otherwise this one was fairly straight-forward compared to the last one. :) Also, when I was about half-way thru putting this one together I saw Apple had added a new Loop pack called Backlight Bounce. Yay! It was all synthy and 80’s-ish so that was perfect. I added a few of those loops in here. Anyway, hope you like it. Enjoy! ❤️

80s Pop

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

A Far Country 2 (aka A Far Country) 
Same Story as #1 (read comments on that song)😊 
For full effect listen directly after A Far Country 1.
Thanks for listening! ❤️❤️❤️

A Far Country 2

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)

Wanted to do some more Dub. :) Ended up gettin real vox-al with it. Like the way it came out tho. I love learning more and more each time. I can already go back to the first songs I put together and tell a huge difference in how I put them together and fx and other fun stuff. This has been such a cool journey so far. Thank God for GarageBand! 😊 Thanks for listening 🙏🏽 Hopefully, you will enjoy. 😬

Voxxine

***UPDATED: I edited that little break section (it felt too long to me) from 4 to 2 (I’m still not sure it’s right 😩) & changed the placement a little bit. And I peaked the volume of 4 single notes to help them ring out just a little better.  Lastly, I made a slight fix to one of the vocal pieces at the end… I realized it was starting too late. 😊***

I made this song almost exclusively from the new Boys Noize Producer Pack that just showed up on Garageband Loops. There is so much in there that’s perfect for Industrial, I was impressed and surprised. I wasn’t expecting that AT ALL. :) Anyway, so my standard for Industrial music is basically Nine Inch Nails so when I do an Industrial track my thoughts are always “oh yeah, I could hear this in a NIN song” :) And so they were def my original inspiration for this, BUT after playing around with it a little and editing, and especially adding in those little vocal bits, it really took on more of a Meat Beat Manifesto and/or Ministry feel, I think. Anyway, this was a lot of fun. I hope y’all enjoy it and thanks for listening! ❤️

Industrial Complex

***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*

The original was just too long and it was suggested that I split it in two because I basically had two separate songs in one. So this one is now kinda super short and I reserve the right to go back at a later date and add onto this or whatever but for now it stands as is. Thanks for listening. Enjoy! ❤️

Fresh Synth of Bel-Air - Pt. 2

Fresh Synth of Bel-Air - Pt. 1

I knew I’d eventually end up using that vocal loop again. It’s sooo damn good! Anyway, this time I edited it several times and used many different iterations of it thruout the song. It was fun but it also took a longntime to get it all just right. Anyway, enjoy & thanks for listening! ❤️

Old Derby Bastard (Remix)

Aphex Twin was my original inspiration for this track and then it kinda became something else. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Enjoy! ❤️

Dark to Light *UPDATED*

This and the 2 songs after it are all from the same “base” of loops. I had been trying to put this one together into something that sounded decent for at least like a month but I just couldn’t get it to come together until about a week ago I found a coupla loops that finally started bringing it all together. But then I wanted to kinda veer off and try something else a little more clubby with it so I started Club Zero & that was going ok at first and then I had the thought “why don’t I check out those dua lipa tracks from the remix session on garage band?” So I did…and then it ended up taking over the song completely and became the remix that I put up. So then once the dua lipa track was done, I went back and finished Club Zero and then FINALLY finished 80-bit. 80-bit is supposed to be a kind of combo of 8-bit and 80’s. Just wanted to try out a song with that kind of feel to it. Anyway, I hope you like it. Thanks for listening! ❤️❤️❤️

80-bit *updated* AGAIN 😊

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)

Other than the beginning bit and obviously a few other little things here and there, this is the Dua Lipa remix with all the dua lipa stuff taken out. This is basically what I was trying to accomplish before I went down the Dua Lipa rabbit hole and ended up with an entirely new song. 😆 Sooo yeah, thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy! ❤️

Club Zero

The beginning of this is inspired by Aphex Twin. Which is to say as I was going thru the loops on garage band I heard a couple loops that made me think of Aphex & so I tried to make something Aphexy. But after the beginning ended I kinda went another route with it…. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Oh well, it is what it is. C’est la vie and all that. :) Hope you enjoy it. thanks for listening! ❤️❤️❤️

Abscess Twin

Ok, so the story behind these 3 tracks (1.0,  2.0 & 3.0) is that I came across the loop that this (and all 3 songs) starts with & I liked it & wanted to do something “clubby” with it cuz it is a very clubby piece. But, for whatever reason as I was putting together 1.0 it started going in a more chill/lo-fi direction. Which, I mean I enjoyed where I went with, I liked it and all but it was still frustrating me because that’s just not where I was originally wanting to go with it. Sooo, I started over with the same loop. What do you do when at first you don’t succeed? Try, try again. And then guess what? It f@#king happened AGAIN!! Omgggg! I was so mad. 😆😡😩 But again, I mean I liked the song overall and didn’t want to scrap all the time and energy I put into making it, so then I tried tried AGAIN! I vowed this time that I would absolutely not allow it to go anywhere but “club” this time. But, honestly at this point I was starting to wonder whether this song just “wanted” to go that way and that I’d never have the song I originally intended to make. But, finally with 3.0 I got it to where I wanted it to go. But, yeah, so I was f-ing around with those 3 tracks for 2 whole weeks trying to ultimately just make 1 song. Hahaha ugh…kill me now. 

Anyway, went ahead and called these 3 “RMX SSN” because they are all remixes of a sort, even tho they all go in very different directions after the introduction of the original loop. 

Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy them. ❤️❤️❤️

1.0 {RMX SSN}

2nd attempt at making a clubby song from the intro loop (see explanation in the description for 1.0). This ended up more chill/lo-fi than expected. 🤷🏻‍♀️ It is what it is.
Went ahead and called these 3 “RMX SSN” because they are all remixes of a sort, even tho they all go in very different directions after the introduction of the original loop. 
Anyway, hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening! ❤️

2.0 - The Way {RMX SSN}

3rd and final attempt to take that opening loop and make a clubby song out of it (see description for 1.0 for full explanation). FINALLY succeeded in my original goal. :) Yay! Went ahead and called these 3 “RMX SSN” because they are all remixes of a sort, even tho they all go in very different directions after the introduction of the original loop. So, yeah thanks for listening & I hope you enjoy. :)

3.0 - The Way {RMX SSN}

This song is titled as such because of a group of loops I used called “Lost in Ibiza”. They certainly don’t make up the entire song but they are one of the central parts of the song. So, yeah. :) Thanks for listening! Hope you like it. ❤️

In Search of Ibiza

I started this one off with 3 piano loops (hence the name), but then tripled them as well. So each time you hear the piano it’s the normal C Major but then layered with two harmonies, 1 up an octave & one down an octave. I love playing with keys, semitones, harmonies, octaves and all that stuff. It’s a lot of fun. Anyway, thanks for listening and please enjoy! ❤️

3 Piano Brigade *UPDATED*

I came across a few darker sounding loops and it occurred to me that I had never done any kind of “seasonal” music nor had I ever considered doing anything like that before. But the loops inspired me to try. And the laugh is a sample from Thriller. Thanks for listening and I hope you like it. :)

All Hallow’s Eve

Yet another attempt to make an “aphexy” type song and it started off there but just as with all the others, it ended up some place entirely different. 😆 Oh well, I guess. 🤷🏻‍♀️ It is what it is. I hope you like it & thanks for listening! ❤️

The Chill of Rights

The computers now have control…
In my perusing of loops on GB, I came across the astronaut samples from Apollo & Discovery, etc. I used the “Eagle has landed” sample in one of my other songs. Anyway, so I had some fun playing around with this sample and editing it all up in different pieces and playing with the rhythm. It was a lot of work (tedium) but also a lot of fun, and it’s probably one of my favorites. :) Anyway, thanks for listening & I hope you enjoy it as well. ❤️

Extra note:
I have never heard of nor listened to Apollo by Sun or whoever it is but this song keeps getting tagged and disputed for copyright because we both use (I can only assume) the Discovery sample. Ugh.

Ctrl

Just a little diddy I whipped. Didn’t have to do TOO much editing on this one, mostly just some automation work and slight adjusting of rhythms/beats, etc. Hope you enjoy & thanks for listening!

Beat Puppets

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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