Hey, guys! I went really dark and experimental on this one. Sorry for uploading it late; I messed up and did Chicken on day four instead and I'm just now coming back to finish spell. I hope you all enjoy!

Key: A Harmonic Minor.

Inktober 04: Spell

Hey, guys! I wrote this yesterday trying to come up with something for precious, but it ended up working better for flowing.

This is only two chords: F minor seven and C minor seven and all of the notes played are chord tones. The chords change every eight measures and the arp in the back is playing up and down inversions of that chord. 

This is meant to be a loop like a video game background track for a water area. Thanks for listening!

Inktober 10: Flowing

Hey, guys. I got really busy and couldn't make anything for a while. College stuff lol. 

This is in 6/8 and in C major because I'm original. Also the C key is hit the entire time, so thats cool. Thank you for listening!

Inktober 14: Clock

Hey! Thank you for listening to my first Inktober track of the year!! For this one, I wanted to create a PlayStation 1 style RPG track. The biggest way I went about accomplishing this is by using a few Final Fantasy sound fonts. 

The rhythm in the B-Section is super inspired from a part of Opeth's Patterns in the Ivy, but slowed down a ton.

Inktober 2019 01: Ring

One year ago today, I wrote the original draft for Out of the Coop for Inktober 2018. Up until that point, I had never smiled so much and felt the urge to dance in my seat to a song I wrote, and I haven't since... THAT IS UNTIL TODAY!

With this piece, I decided to go all in on the video game fishing angle. When I was writing this, I decided to just let my head go crazy and just write whatever felt natural, no matter how utterly weird it was, so, I ended up with some CRAZY time signature changes.

The main melody starts in 3/4, but had two measures in 13/16, but that's only a taste of the craziness that is to come. The B-Section goes from 3/4 to 6/16 to 4/16 to 9/16, and then finished off back in 3/4. 

I am very much used to writing music with dense harmonies, so writing something with just one voice is a step in the complete other direction for me. I plan on adding some more stuff to this later for sure, and I may even use this piece for my audition into the school of music at my university. 

ANYWAYS, hope you guys enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed writing it!!!!!

Inktober 2019 03: Bait

Hey! Thank you for listening! I wrote this with the idea of some burly man telling a story in a pub. I kinda have a few ideas for where I want to take this (maybe lyrics????) but I definitely do not have time to do that today. 

This is the first folk song I've ever written, so I had to take inspiration from something. I went with Alestorm's acoustic version of Nancy the Tavern Wench (and I'm sure you'll find that this is very similar to that song). I'm actually super proud of myself for being able to do something like this because I really didn't think I could. 

Anyways, thank you so much for listening! Happy Inktober!!!!!!!!!!!

Inktober 2019 15: Legend

This is a bit late, but here is my Inktober Day 07: Enchanted!!!!

I had written this a while ago, but I didn't upload it because I didn't like it, but now I like it for some reason (something similar happened with Day 02, and I will be uploading that later). 

For this one, I continued my odd meter usage from day 03. My time sig switches leading up to the end of the song are 2/4, 1/4, 2/4, 5/16, 1/4, 5/16, 1/4, 6/16, 1/4. I did this to create a super discordant rising sound with lots of unexpected placements for the down beat. I think it turned out pretty good tbh.

Thanks for listening!!!!

Inktober 2019 07: Enchanted

WOW this one was a doozy. This is my first 19-TET/19EDO song ever (and my first Zenharmonic song, for that matter)! 

Read this if you want to know about theory: 

19-TET is a tuning system which equally divides the octave into 19 notes rather than the usual 12). I have been wanting to write in 19-TET for a long time, but I haven't until today because I couldn't find an easy way to get my get good sounding instruments tuned correctly without using way too much of my CPU, but I had a random epiphany earlier today, and I was able to figure it out!

In short, this song is serving as my introduction to composing Zenharmonic music, and it makes me suuuuuper excited. Hope you enjoyed!!!

Inktober 2019 16: Wild

Hey, guys! Here is my Day 21: Treasure! This one was a lot of fun to write. I realized that my Legend submission was very Pirate-y, so it was kinda difficult not going with that exact route again, but I think I succeeded. I wanted to go for more of a treasure hunt vibe on this one, hence the cheery flute lead.

So about the part at the end, I randomly hit that G at the end of the third flute melody and for some reason I went total *WRITE SAD GUITAR CHORDS NOW* mode, and I kinda like it, so I left it in. I kinda wrote that with the sentiment of going home from your treasure hunt empty handed and sad, but then realizing that the real treasure is within your friendships. (Wow I'm cheesy AF, but so is my music, so it's fine).

ANYWAYS, thank you for listening! Have a great day or night or whatever see ya thanks again okay byeee.

Inktober 2019 Day 21: Treasure

Hey, guys! This is my account for posting Inktober stuff. My main is @Pathagas.