Well, this post has been LONG overdue! To be quite honest, I'm not sure why I never got around to it. I have no valid excuse. So here we are: the first "real" post of 2016!
*Crickets chirping*
Well, let's just get it over with then...
Actually, before we begin, I hope you all had a great Familly Day and awesome Valentine's Day! Kinda funny they'd be back to back since they're kinda similar. Hope you all had fun spending time with those who mattered most to you!
And, for those wondering - although I would question why you'd even bother wondering - I had no real plans on either of those days. So don't ask.
So, for the showcase, I wanted to feature my first attempt at swing and my most recent creation.
The spotlight goes to the swing song; the genre has definitely seen an increase in popularity over the recent years, at least in my eyes. This song isn't swing, but more electroswing which is pretty much modern swing - it's swing with modern elements like more advanced drum machines etc. My song, Tap Tap Swing, uses mainly swing elements; since it was my first shot at the genre, I didn't want to get to fancy right off the bat. There's a piano, saxophone, trumpet, clarinet and a few synths at work in this song. I really like the groove that I captured with this piece to be honest. I should also mention, this was my submission for the Newgrounds Secret Santa which now happened FOREVER ago. Whoops!
The next song is my recent creation and part of my science themed album: The Science of it. The song is appropriately named Sys-Time-atic (a pun on the word "systematic") since the structure of the song makes it feel very robotic and, well, systematic. Furthermore, the drums kinda sound like what I would envision the interior of a complex clock to sound like.
So here they are in all thier glory!
I want to talk a bit about the story I've been working on. To tell the truth, I've been lazy. VERY VERY lazy. I've had ideas but never wrote them down. I'm going to try to work on the story some more this month and hopefully get something presentable. I want to be able to show a bit of what the story is like so I can get some feedback.
Musically, I want to try composing some chiptune. But I want to analyze some elements of chiptune first before I take a crack at it. I currently have a NES plugin for FL Studio and I've been messing around with that today. I'm also taking a look at a few chiptune songs and analyzing them for thier structure and form. Currently, I've been taking a look at Bit Shifter's Hexadecimal Genome - a chiptune song that I listened to a while ago and really liked. You can click the embeded link or just go to my Soundcloud and find it under my favourites. If you have any other chiptune songs that you know of to really reflect some of the key elements of chiptune music, let me know! So, while I study up on chiptune, I'll be filling in the space with reuploads of my old creations that I never got around to reuploading!
Anyway, I don't really have much else to say! So thanks for reading and thanks for checking out my content! Stay awesome!
-Yeelp