- Backstory
- ALRIGHT ALRIGHT!! Hope everyone’s week was great and that y’all ready for some more music! Word of warning, we are still in the beginning stages, the World of Simplicity and will be for some time. With that being said, let’s go on to the next one! Number 5 started off as an idea I had in the back log for a couple months that was coming to about three months old when I put my hands back on it. The song already had the Pipa (main motif), Bass, and the drums (which for the first time in all of the 100 I used a drum kit that wasn’t an acoustic set), and it was written on my phone on GarageBand.
- Music
- Start with the glaring instrument in your face, the Pipa. Like I said it was an Idea that I had recorded on that same GarageBand Project a few months earlier. It was right when I really tried fiddling with some of the world instruments that were in the software and just liked the way it sounded. If I’m not mistaken the Pipa only can play in the Major Pentatonic Scale so that really takes freedom away from you. But as my godfather always says, “There is great freedom in conformity.” But in this case I substituted that for simplicity, built the song around the Pipa, and went from there.
- Next to come was the bass. I wrote it the same day as the Main Motif and tried to make it lasso the tone of Pipa to more of a Western sound (not like Old West, just American sounding if that makes any sense). It acted as a counter melody to that motif and it has such a cool sound to me! There’s only one thing I really wish that I would have changed about the bass line, and it’s the second time it goes up to the pattern’s highest note. I would have held the D with the F#, that major 3rd, on both passes because it has such a sweet sound that plays with the melody so well. For the bridge, the bass was the first part I wrote and ended up being a foundation to see what I could do for a change up.
- There’s a midi rock guitar that just mirrors the Pipa and is pretty much just added color until the Bridge. This piggybacks off the bass and really helps change the tone and direction of the song, not too far that it’s unnecessary, but just enough to keep interest.
- The drums are really cool!! I say this because….IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I MADE DRUMS FROM SCRATCH! For the main drums I used the Drum Machine called Big Room and just made the four bars with the Kicks, Snares/Claps, low tom and shaker (it’s the tempo sound in the beginning). I got those recorded and just copy pasted where necessary. The crashes and kicks were all done on the live drum sounds, mainly because I didn’t like the synthetic crashes, they sounded too fake, but man can you tell I didn’t know how to use crashes yet?!? Lol every 4 bars have a crash! I’m pretty sure I’m better at that now and probably fix that fairly quickly into the hundred, but for now, enjoy that learning curve lol! The Bridge have a different set too, Hip Hop Drum Machine. This one was done by the player, not from scratch, but it gave it that super cool twist in the song I never would have done without it, basically switching Genres mid song! I’m pretty sure I just pressed the Dice icon on the bottom left just to see what random thing it spawned and I was down to try and write off whatever it gave me. It definitely helped me see that anything can go with what’s present, you just need to find a way to bring it in.
- Conclusion:
- I feel like I keep saying this, but this song was a lot of fun to make. It was one of those tunes where I really felt like I could just let go and just see where it would take me. Granted it’s simple and follows a single motif for most of the time but it was intended for that. I always wanted this song to be in like a cheap local commercial for a market or a small restaurant. The song never wanted to be a big spectacle and honestly would have been just fine with staying the Pipa part for the entirety of its duration. It could have just been a loop for all it cared (there’s like three of those coming up throughout), but I wanted a change of pace so I put the Bridge in. It’s really an easy turn off the brain kind of song that anyone looking for commercial music on a budget would love lol!
I think the reason I really like this song is because it’s just charming. It has a cute little innocence to its simplicity and when it goes to the bridge it kinda hits you out of nowhere. I see myself in it cause that’s basically me. Until I’m truly comfortable with you you’re probably gonna just see my innocent side, and if you think that’s all I am, YOU ARE IN FOR A RIGHT SURPRISE LOL! It’s funny, just the other day a coworker of mine was telling me how people’s problem with journaling is that they always end up sticking to a rigid template that they can’t be swayed from. When really you should just write what is needed, even if it’s just a sentence, or just a smiley face. This was the first song I let myself do that with. So a takeaway from #5 is just,
“Not everything needs to be Bohemian Rhapsody, turn the brain off every so often”
P.S. The song title sucks I know, most of the titles are just so I remember them. There’s 100 of them, I needed to do something to pick it out quickly lol
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