Song a Day-ish 2 (80’s Synth Song)

Youtube Link for Song 2

• Backstory
• This one was the first song I wrote on my phone on BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit for those of you not from the Bay. It was on my way to work out in SF, which was great because I can always get about 45 mins in the actual train from my house. The song was just as a brand new idea I heard in my head and just rolled with it. There’s not much backstory but it was one of the first songs where I took whatever looped around in my head and forced myself to write in order to get the clog of my creative juices out so they could get to the point of flowing normally. It sounds counterintuitive, I know, but it really worked to get a bunch of songs out, then once I was comfortable again I could get into really writing ones I could be genuinely proud of!
• Music
• The original idea for the song was the Organ that you hear in the verses prominently. The entire song is built off of that chord progression.
• The bass line came next, which I would later use as a starting point for the main synth melody track. I found it pleasing to the ears to have them carry the same notes/main run, but the bass has more to do because I really enjoy specific bass lines that have a lot going on, a busy bass line you could say.
• The next thing I put in were the drums. There were two tracks of drums (one I played on the phone’s built-in MIDI and the drum machine), I knew what I wanted them to sound like but I was too lazy and made the drum machine do it for me. So I put them in the slots that made the sounds I wanted and just looped them accordingly. But the drums that I wrote by myself were the intro drums, all the crashes, the first half of the bridge and finally the fill that brings the chorus back from the Bridge at about 2:38.
• In the Chorus, The last thing written was the electric guitar countermelody. I had it virtually mirror the bass so it could be something different and cool to hear, something that would make you go, “Oooh thats cool!” And in looking back it really became something that is now like a Nando Molinar signature sound. 
• With the bridge I started off with the bass then piggybacked the organ. Once I got them to my liking I found the direction of the bridge and put the drums in. First half were done by hand and the second half were taken from the verse drum pattern. I then used the synth for an extra layer, finally figured out some chords to get back into the chorus.
• Closing
• This song was really cool cause it only took me about 45 mins to complete, that was the fastest I'd ever written a full song and became my norm for most of the earlier songs that were done on my phone. Not to mention, it's unnecessarily loud on Bart, full blast volume on Apple earbuds was my best friend for many of the first songs lol. I do remember at this point I was still trying to get myself out of the mentality that none of my songs will ever be as good as someone else’s, or even my own past songs (when we get to the song that I finally got confidence back, I'll let you know). It was interesting because I was really proud of what I had made but was still in the transition phase of starting to see my own worth as a musician. So this was like the first taste of the conflicting emotions that came from the hundred.

With this song I always saw a melody that was the same as the synth in the choruses. In the verse I had no ideas, and still don’t, but if anyone wants to try they are more than welcome to, and can probably come up with something really cool. There’s a good amount of wiggle room in the song as is! As well as it was really different from what I had previously thought I was able write and this time. I remember thinking, “Doing something new is hard but really rewarding! ‘Keep Challenging Yourself!!’”

If you missed last week's song "Wait and See" <---LINK