Making music

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Hi
I hope you’re all doing well! Like I announced to you guys I will be making more posts about the music while it is being created, and this is the first one. I did work on some of my music projects this weekend and I’ll let you listen in on a sample if you want to. 😊 I have also had too much fun with the Wacom tablet manipulating pictures and creating little drawings, so I will throw some of them into this post as well. So let’s get started with this sample of my new song:

I have no idea how the song will end up or what kind of lyrics I will write for it, if you have any thoughts on the song, let me know 😊. I almost always create the lyrics after the melody (probably for no better reason than that it is easier…). The mood of the song is I guess more like the fall, so a change of seasons in my music as well it seems.

Strangely making music feels very different for me than writing a story. I start out the process with high expectations (Beautifully illustrated by these hot air balloons, painted by my computer from a picture – Yes, my computer is more talented than me, as you can see my drawing underneath 😉).

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This is truly how it feels like before I actually start. I think it will be easy. No problem. Getting the music in my head created with my skills is no big deal… until I actually try to do it…

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Not quite what I was thinking- welcome to the land of “everything is freaking difficult” …

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(On a side note does my cartoon kind of look like a person from ancient Greece? It kind of does, and the arms are definitely not anatomically correct 😉 )

Getting things to sound like you want them to can be quite challenging…When I am writing I enjoy the process as much as the finished product, this really isn’t true for when I am making music (probably because I don’t have enough skills yet). I always feel like I won’t be able to make anything worth listening to, until I suddenly feel like I might have. The picture underneath might be a good illustration of how we would like to think of inspiration- when it all comes together 😊

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And then how inspiration probably really is like…

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Cute though 😉

I hope you enjoyed the music sample and that you will follow along on the posts to see how the song ends up 😊

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If you like the images that have been used to illustrate this post all the drawing are mine, but the first, second, fourth and sixth photo are from morguefile.com. The photos have been edited but the originals where taken by violetdragonfly (first and last photo), bang (second photo), pablogonz (fourth photo) and lisaleo (sixth photo).

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14 Comments

  4. lostperci
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    Good foundation! Careful not to have too many layers. I tend to play too many tracks in a song which could be the source of my overwriting stuff. 🙂 The drawing is very ancient Greek or Roman but the arms are ok if you think of them wrapped around yourself. Giving yourself a hug for a riff well composed!

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  7. Tina Siuagan
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    The melody has a chill vibe on it; I like it! I also make music. But since I failed to learn any instrument in the past, I just try to hum and record the tunes that pop up my head. (Weird right?) Then, my musician friends would take a look into it and make a more decent melody.

    And like you, I also deal with the lyrics later. 🙂

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