Backstory
- Another Wednesday another song! Today we have the second of like 11 of the Video Game Songs! Fair warning, all of the VGS are probably not gonna have long in depth Blog posts cause they were all done the same essentially. Same head space, same instruments, etc. But this one was a BART one. I opened up GarageBand and it automatically brought up the Arcade synth (it usually spawns last instrument you used in a new session). So I just went with it and started a new one!
Music
- Synths
- Like I said I started with the Arcade synth with the chord walk up. Im pretty sure the two note walkup was the first thing I did then tacked on the next harmony and next after that!
- The second one was just the main melody. I wanted to keep the same motif throughout the chorus but didn’t want it to seem too repetitive, so I dropped the octave in the third pass of it then brought it back up.
- I kinda don’t remember making the bass riff but I remember wanting it to have the skippy sort of feeling and I ended up giving it the walk up too (that became a theme of this song)
- There’s a 4th AS that does the “solo” at the climax of the song. I just took the keyboard and improvised lol, it seemed to work out! My favorite part about it was the whole back and forth it does with the other three just feels like a musical representation of a head fake. You know when football players do that little shimmy before breaking to one side? That’s what it feels like and the “break” is the resolve!
- Drums
- I used Big Room again but wow that shaker pattern is all over the place lol, so that means I hit them whenever I felt like it needed a shaker lol. Usually I would make it consistent but not here. The first 8 bars of it are looped throughout the song and there’s also the drum kit’s version of sticks hitting each other (it kinda has a rolling effect) so I threw those in every so often to add a little color.
- Ending
- For the outro I had it do the full circle thing and made the intro the outro as well, but that was more intentional than just full circle. I wanted the song to loop perfectly, when you listen on repeat it just falls right into place without effort!
Conclusion
- I think for this song it was a challenge of how can I use the exact same tools and make something completely different from the first one? And I think I accomplished that pretty well. It’s one of the ones that isn’t as significant than a majority of the other songs but a fun one to listen to nonetheless.
I guess the lesson for today is, “Everything isn’t going to be the best or most significant thing you create. But enjoy it for what it is!”
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