This is my second song, Left Behind.  

Was just an ordinary guy going about my ordinary life until the lockdown hit, and I decided to invest in learning some new skills.  I don't know if this will ever be a jackpot find for me, but I am loving every second of my journey so far.  It's hard to top anybody if the passion is strong enough.  

Come check out my website and say hi,

https://topdob.com

Left Behind

Countdown -- TopDob 

Countdown hits hard right from the beginning, opening immediately with a funky rhythmic bassline that grabs you from the moment the song opens.  As the composition eases into it's the verses and chorus allow for a chance to dial back the intensity level, and bring in a more pained melancholic sound to contrast the intensity of earlier bars.  When the bassline makes it's triumphant return to the audio waves later on into the song, it provides a more robust feel to the sound, helping to deliver a rich experience that hits a at more than one emotional feeling.

I'm a brand new self taught Canadian artist that found themselves with a little spare time during the lockdown's.  I had no plans for this, it just kind of happened to me.  I have always been the type that loves to learn new things, but I never would have imagined that reading up just a little bit on musical theory would have led me to go down the path of actually producing music.  

Where this journey is going to lead me is anybody's guess at this point.  It's all still so very new to me I don't even know what to make of it.  The learning process has been so rewarding and fulfilling, that it's made it really easy to dive in headfirst into this process.  I am still at a stage where I see it as creating art for myself, but I do look forward to the day that other people begin to discover what I've created and begin to enjoy it themselves.  

Come check out my website!
https://topdob.com

Countdown

Top Dob:   Falsely Accused

Been a rough last few months!  I've been homeless for long stretches, randomly caught up in high speed chases, robbed, saw people die right in front of me,moved to a different city, and had to do things to survive that you won't hear me talk about.  

But, gimme a minute back at my computer?  The music is going to keep flowing out of me.  

It's a fairly upbeat track with a somber undertone.  I've been experimenting with different guitar like sounds, and kind of like how the lead used in the melodies came out sounding.   

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Remember to always stay positive.  We get back what we put out, so always be sending the right frequencies. 

Chris

Falsely Accused

Top Dob - The Damage Has Been Done

This is part of me experimenting with a harder sound than I've put out previously.  It goes back to my roots as somebody who grew up on a lot of hard heavy metal.  Not just heavy metal.  Hard heavy metal.  My taste in music has expanded exponentially over the years, but there will always be a place in my heart for that metal sound.  

The damage has been done is my first attempt at recreating some of that sound and feel.

The Damage Has Been Done

As with my other work, this was produced during a time in my life where things were more than flipped upside down.  It was more comparable to being inside of a washing machine, getting flipped over again, and again, and again.

When encountering a situation like that, whether literal or metaphorically, it's best not to get tense.  Let yourself be as loose and laid back as you can possible be, and just let yourself roll to where you are going to end up.  Steer things when the opportunity to do so arises, but other than that, it's best to just relax and remain chill as you possibly can.

Experimenting in this song with a few different guitar synths I have.  My DAW of choice is FL studio, and the VST's playing the melody and chord progressions were UJAM's Carbon playing the grittier sound, and Sonivox's Bright Electric Guitar.