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Bluegrass-inspired dancin' music! I've had this tune rolling around in my head (and my journal) for a few months now and I decided it was finally time to crank some of these out into the real world. All instrumentation and voices are done by me.

I think this might be the most professional sounding thing I've ever made, and I really like listening to it! (which doesn't happen often with my own music)I've always wanted to try handclaps :), but I think what really did it is the electric mandolin because the tone is beautiful.

Happier Things 2

This one is for you, Heidi! ;)

Some more experimenting with vocal and recording style. A little bit of yodeling goes a long way...

Dear Sister

Day 14 of the challenge, I'm still working away from home with my handy dandy laptop. In a way, it's a continuation on yesterday's storyline.

There was a quest challenge I wanted to tackle a few days ago regarding "inverting the melody", so today I decided to use yesterday's melody. Then I threw it in this bizarre synth sample (still playing around with those, yup). This one is under Motion Sequences called "Close Encounters" on Logic Pro 9 (yeah, my laptop is too janky to update to Logic Pro X, rip). So yeah, to me it sounds more like it was in space than my tune from yesterday. 

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This is part of a daily challenge called The 21-Day Composition Challenge! This will temporarily take precedent over Tunesday. There's also a Quest Log/Checklist that covers certain styles or parameters (for our consideration, to break out of our comfort zone, etc).

For those of you who are participating, here is the quest I knocked out today!

Quest Log 2
• The Flip Side

13. Collected

Matt Board, Composer and Lyricist