Final Post

This year i got so much better and more musical. I always thought that i was really musical and could write music easy since I was at one time in band, but i wasn't. The only project that I did was ease was the drum loop, because I didnt have to worry about pitches. For the next few projects, listening to them again now, they make no sense and aren't organized at all. I didn't realize that throughout the year I got better at making my loops sound organized. They were also one dimensional, with always only one continuous loop and a drum beat. Each project ended up in me using something new, and I usually kept using it afterwards, so each project started to sound kind of deeper with more to the songs. By about the sixth project, I learned how to make my own syths, which is why the sounds start to actually sound different than other projects. I also learned how to use the riff machine, which what I depended on for a while, because it was easier than goin through each note on the keyboard, to see what sounded good. The only thing that I had learned to that point on writing loops, was not to use the black keys because I knew that they were flats and sharps, and I didn't know any scales that included them. Then all of the sudden my songs got much more depth, I had melodies, parts that were in harmony with the melody, and some third sound that accented the other two well. I think this was my best point of the year because the song was simple enough, yet also complex enough and I might have even listened to it on my IPod. Once I learned how to use poizone, it made projects easier for me, because I could make a sound much quicker, however listening to them now, I don't like how they sound, they're always too powerful and didn't have enough bass. My projects were consistently ok as I learned more things like ADSR and envelopes and LFO. But I started to get too heavily relient on bass, and bass parts were my melody with a synth part accenting that. Whenever I tried to do just a normal bass part throughout that wasn't overbearing, I never liked it. Then the chords progression project came, and i learned how to write the music in chords. This made the projects much easier and I stopped using riff machines because it was funner to write my own parts. I no longer had to "go through all of the white keys", but just pick some chord and use it. Unfortunately, that was the last project that I finsihed with that knowledge. One of the bonus tracks does have my own chords that I wrote though. I learned a ridiculous amount this year and improved my projects in huge amounts. I can now appreciate about any song and I'm more curious because I'm just like "I wonder what made them write that part like that?"