A quick piano jam because I haven't played in a long time

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Here is a streaming prototype of an album I'm gonna try to work on once I get some free time, 11 songs that I think flow together well and are some of my favorites I've made so far in different states of polish:

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After mid December when my papers and applications are done I'll be on it and making new songs again.

I've written a bunch of songs but been too busy lately to set them down right. This one sounds like a cat being killed or something:

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Just wrote this a second ago so still rough. Could be good with some additional instrumentation.


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Messin around with this one, still rough. You gotta use your imagination with these haha

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Been too busy to make music recently with painting last week and I just got back from doing inventory at the beach but written a bunch of stuff so I'll see if I can get some of it recorded decently. This one will be for last week. Just a genre exercise with lots of mess ups:

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So this one actually has a sweet drumbeat that I made with a sequencer, but when I export it the beat disappears. Not sure why yet. So I guess try to imagine there is a sweet dance beat going on throughout. Not my favorite song - the melody needs a little work - but pretty fun to make:

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This was just a test so I could experiment with making my own synths. Sounds kind of Aphex Twin:

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I followed the thread of 50s country-western style folk this week and made 2 songs with that theme and instrument palette. This one will definitely benefit a lot from a crisper recording/mixing I think, but check it out:

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This one is more dissonant/eerie/middle eastern sounding and has almost no lyrics but I'll post it up anyway since pallete-wise it goes with the first song. You might not like this one but oh well haha. Also I wouldn't make the volume super loud if I were you because it gets slightly louder at around 55 seconds. Also big thanks to Eddie on the backing flutes:

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This week I didn't really get a full song, but I made a bunch of jams. This one is just a brief segment of old-time blues/rag:

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These 2 are both just messy instrumentals that really need to be "mined" and given organization. But there are moments in both that I really like.
For the next Street fighter movie or something I think:

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Trying to make a silly tropical song, trying to make something that sounded like one of my favorite fruits. This one is super messy, but so is.....

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Ok so I just busted this out in like 5 minutes so sorry for the cacophony haha. I like the ideas though. Make sure to give it some volume too

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This one is very 1950s via 2011, so it might seem a little retro. I was trying to do something Roy Orbison might do. This will be for last week, I'll post another in the morning. I've been too busy and worn out from painting to jam on beats for the last 3 weeks but now that I'm done I should have more time to polish. Gotta post this rough bit up for now and move on to the next though:

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This one is supposed to be the intro to a longer song that has lyrics and a more normal song structure, but I'm still working on that part and will post it up when I finish. Been really busy this week.


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Okay here's two directions for the same rough idea:

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This one's a weird spoken word one or something hah but I think if I make the beat bump just a little more it could be cool. Kind of hypnotic, I guess I'd call the vibe "solemn"....:

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Trip hop vibe, I'll add to this one eventually:

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One of my favorite things I've made even though its simple:


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This one always makes me laugh when the second voice first comes in... Also I dedicate this song to 90s acoustic radio rock:

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This one's just a simple blues melody I was playin around havin fun with, but i think it came together pretty nicely overall:


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This one's one I'm just kinda stuck on so I'll post it up just to have something more electronic up for the week, plus I don' know if I'll keep going with it anyway. Definitely a rough cut though, if you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them:

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Tomorrow kids- LALALA

Tomorrow kids- LALALA by Tomorrow Kids

YAY! my first contribution to the blog... I like to think of it as Prince meets Shawn Mullins meets Flo Rida. There aren't many words to it yet cause I spent WAY to much time on the music. Hope you like it.

Needs a lot of cleaning up but I like the last part and will eventually make it longer and turn it into a chorus

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For 6/2/11 :

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Here's the beat I made with your synths:

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5-26-11 Pretty stressful song that doesn't go anywhere. Still gibberish vocals.

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Song for today, 5/19/11. Still very rough especially vocals:

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For 3 weeks ago, version 1, work in progress:
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For 2 weeks ago:

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New version of one from a few weeks ago:
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Song A Week

Make a song a week.  Thursday's the day to turn in and start again for the next week.  Offer comments and ideas to help each other's songs develop and improve.  Eventually generate enough songs of decent quality for "an EP worth."  
All about Quantity and Producing.