Backstory
- IT’S WEDNESDAY GUYS!! A great day as always because I get to share another song with everyone!! This one is soooooo simple and was when I was starting to feel clogged again. I remember that I was feeling like I was getting to a point where I was only able to write the VideoGame songs, mainly because I only wanted to write them, and that was a red flag for me. It was like I was trying to take the easy way out and only do what I was comfortable with (if you are wondering why that’s bad, the whole point of the Songs a Day-ish was to get out of the writers block by making myself step out of my comfort zone in music. It was directly against what I set out to do). So for this song I went at it by forcing myself to not do a VG song. Gotta say, best song? By no means, a good “get one out to stay creative?” Absolutely! Now let’s get into the music!
Music
- Retro Bass: So this was the first thing that I came up with when I was playing with this specific sound. I might have said it before, but a lot of times what happens in the BART songs is the Bass usually becomes the actual base/foundation of the song. If you haven’t noticed before pay attention to the next one, that’s usually how the songs would take me. There's a change in the second go around of the motif, I’m not exactly sure why I went for it but I assume it was just to give it more color, I do really enjoy the sound of half steps and dissonance (to a certain degree of course). Something interesting, the bridge bass is actually something I accidentally stole from myself from a song I wrote before the block, not necessarily the notes being played but the chord progression.
- Organ: All I wanted for this was just to fill it out, so there’s only really one chord with the top notes shifting around to give it life. I put the little walk up to keep your attention and in the last walk up there is a little 1/8 note rest on the first hit. In the bridge I just put some chord strikes on the up beats to just change up the feeling a little.
- Big Room Drums: There’s two tracks of it, the one on the bottom has only the high hat and crashes. (PS both tracks were made from scratch). The second track has kick, claps (snare substitute), and a shaker (I don’t even remember putting that in tbh lol). But the track with the kick only comes in on the choruses and the high hat one stays throughout the song once it comes in.
Conclusion
- Ok, holy shit, while writing this the A’s (my favorite team) just got a NO-HITTER! So I’m distracted and excited, it’s not gonna reflect my mindset from when I wrote the song at all lolol! Omg I really can’t think anymore, ummmmmmmmmm ummmmmmmm……
“LET’S GO OAKLAND!!!” :-)
If you missed last week's song "VGS Pt. 2: Overworld" <---LINK
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