'10 Minute Songwriting' - New Original Music/Songwriting Exercise! Electronic/Instrumental + Walkthrough!
So I decided to do one of those
timed challenges I have done before, giving myself 10 minutes to try and come up with a song or least a reasonable progression or something. I find that whenever I do this, I spend too much time on the drums, which is what happened here. The beat is simple enough, but I was working on the tone and effects/EQ/etc for too much time, so the rest of the song is copy-pasta, haha. BUT it actually worked out kinda well, so let's go through it.
Listen to 10 Minute Songwriting here.
Track 1 just provides the sound
that begins the song, and continues throughout. It sort of adds a digital-percussive element that compliments the drums when they come in. Tracks 2, 4, 5 and 6 all play the same progression, starting on an A, then down to G#, then repeating. Since I wasted so much time on the drums, I just copied this into a few different instruments, and with the last 4 minutes spent tweaking the sounds and timbres, it actually came together reasonably enough, all things considered.
Listen to 10 Minute Songwriting here.
Track 3 is our drums,
which begin with just a kick/snare beat, then the hiahts and shaker come in for most of the track During the little break at measure 45, I wanted the snares to sound way more digital, but I only had like 1 minute left, so I grabbed the entire snare section in each 4 bar part and double-timed over and over until it was a super fast, buzzy tone, which surprisingly sounds half decent and got the general idea I wanted across.
Hope you enjoy the song!! Thanks for listening and checking out the walkthrough!
||| EP 1 - Bandcamp | EP 2 - Bandcamp | EP 3 - Bandcamp |||
||| EP 4 - Bandcamp | EP 5 - Bandcamp | EP 6- Bandcamp |||
This is impressive in a 10 minute period nice job, I have watched challenges on the Youtube pages before like this you could do a video.
Thanks, it's a lot of fun to try and challenge myself.