Music: A Melodramatic Song

Well, welcome back. It’s crazy to think that I have posted more this past week than I have for the past several months. I have been more productive and more creative this past week as well. I don’t really know what it is to be honest, maybe it being Leo has really set off my creative mind. Maybe my moon is in retrograde or something, whatever those cool kids say these days. But whatever it is, I hope this whole feeling doesn’t go away for a while.

Anyways, remember that song I was talking about that I was super excited about? Well I’ve gotten to a place with it where I feel like I am fairly less embarrassed to share it. I don’t think it is necessarily done by any means, I still wanna learn how to like mix and maser correctly but, I just got super excited to share it because i’ve been working on it for a while. As of right I feel like it’s the best song that I have come up with so far. I mean it sounds pretty similar to music that I hear a lot, but like it’s my song so you know it’s pretty special to me at least. It’s kinda got that sad boi indie pop punk feel to it. (Honestly, I don’t even know if that’s like an actual genre, but we gonna make it one). But yeah, I think it’s a pretty good starting point for something that someone could sing on potentially. I still have to learn how to clearly come up with like different parts to songs but I’m sure i’ll get there at some point. Anyways here’s a quick listen to the song that i’ve been working on.

Yeah, there it was. My melodramatic blast to the past. Honestly it feels like a song that I would have been blaring consistently in my parents car when I was in middle school. It really gives me that emo, punk, teenager vibe to it. It also kind of gives that sad soul searching vibe as well, which is super cool to me. I was really happy about the guitar riff/part that I made, I really like how twangy it is and kinda indie in a way as well. (As you can see, I am randomly using words cause I don’t really know what I am talking about). The drums were also generated by the built auto drummer in Garage Band which is pretty cool. It was nice not having come up with a drum line for the song, while also having to learn how to play the drums. I did however have to make sure the drums sounded good enough with my guitar though. The auto drummer interface gives you a lot of say in the sound of the drums and how the auto drummer plays the drums in the song. You can change the levels as well as what portions of the drums that the drummer plays. You can also work with the different timings of almost all of the percussion and cymbals which is really cool. So through all of that, I tried to make it sound as indie and as bedroom poppy as much as possible.

Fun Fact, my girlfriend doesn’t like Indie music, but she likes the music I make. So maybe this song isn’t actually an indie banger. Anyways, if she’s reading this right now, I hope I didn’t expose her too much.

Thinking about what I like about the song, I like the general idea of the song. I like the emotion that the song kind of captivates and personifies. I like that it really gives off that sad soul searching feeling and that it feels like it builds up to some sort of climax at the end of the song. I like the sound of the guitar and the gritty kinda bright timbre I got going on with it, it kinda goes against the feel of the song which is kinda interesting.

As far as what I don’t like about the song, I don’t really like how the climax of the song sounds, with the loud and hard strums that I got going on. I mean I kinda like the idea, it just wasn’t executed like I wanted it to be. I spent a lot of time doing a lot of retakes with that part and ended up splitting up the takes between recordings. That’s kinda why each part sounds separate from each other and kinda like different guitars. I think i’m gonna redo that part one of these days and play that part all the way through so it all sounds the same and kind of cohesive instead of separate like it does now. But yeah other than that, the rest of the song sounds kinda good.

So, there’s another semi medium update on my musical life. I didn’t really have any other musical projects that I was working on so I guess now I have to get into working on something new while I fix some of the things that I didn’t like too much about this one. I’m sure as this process goes on, I will slowly create a mixtape of songs that I have been working on every now and then. Maybe i’ll do a random concert in the future, wouldn’t that be wild. Anyways, thanks for reading and taking the time out of your day to check out my stuff. Talk to you later, stay lit 🔥