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Tesselode's music sketch thread

A topic by tesselode created Dec 14, 2015 Views: 823 Replies: 8

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For a while now I've been afraid of failure when it comes to music. I don't know what it is, but I've been having a lot of trouble making anything that I like, but I think part of that is that I just have bad expectations set up for myself. Somehow, I've been crippling myself when it comes to creativity.

So! I'm gonna fix that. I'm going to make music and not worry about whether it's good or not. We'll see what kinds of weird stuff I make.

Here is a thing:

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Sysop-Delco9 years ago(+1)

I like it, has some nice ambience to it. Might want to consider sliding the volume of the starting pluck instrument down around the 10-20sec mark to let the background instruments more into the front though.

Keep up the good work. :)

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tesselode9 years ago

That's a good idea, although I'm not sure how useful it would be in a song with only 3 instruments. :P

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Sysop-Delco9 years ago

Heh, don't underestimate the impact subtle details can have, many iconic NES era tunes had only 5 channels to work with and they milked em for all they were worth. ;)

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tesselode8 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

a thing

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NotExplosive8 years ago(+1)

I like this one. Although it feels like it's an intro to a bigger song, like it's about to lead into some bigger melody. That's my take at least. :)

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tesselode8 years ago

Found a speech synth. Used it.

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tesselode8 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Man, I'm really dropping the ball when it comes to being active on these forums.

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Sysop-Delco8 years ago(+1)

Aye, I suppose we could all do with abit more activity here, heh. Too bad i'm not much of a socialite. :p

Anyway, this tracks nice, it has a nice mellow vibe to it. Good job.

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