Day 436: For Commercials

Listened to some heavily downloaded tracks on Pond5 and quickly realized that I can easily do much of what I heard.  For pieces in the Pop Rock genre they're mostly instrumental imitations of popular bands/songs, or original compositions influenced by such.  In the area of film scoring that was a little more complicated, although I don't think that stuff gets sold as much, so I should probably focus on the areas where I can make some kind of money.

This piece isn't quite as "commercial" as it could be.  I had already started it before listening to the above mentioned works, but it could still be in something.

Day 121: Finishing Unfinished Work

Started on today's piece a little while ago and it just wasn't making sense.  Worked on a few versions of it and didn't like any of them.  Was going to try for something completely different using Reason 7 and then I realized "There's nothing wrong with this.  These ARE the droids I'm looking for!"

It originally came from KristinaJoy over at hitRECord.

Day 120: Using Reason 7 - First Pass

I'm happy to say I'm getting to beta-test Reason 7 and so far it's all that has been promised.  I guess I'm

not supposed to go into drastic detail because of the EULA you have to agree to as a beta-tester, but there are some functions that are specific to this new version that are featured on this track.

It's a little bit of madness here and there, but I kind of love it.

This track contains a couple of samples of "Persion Love Song" by Dead Can Dance, from the album Toward the Within.

Lyrics:
This love song will ruin us.
I can't keep my love for you a secret.
Put me back in your pocket where I belong.
This world is too much for me.

Day 71: Organic

Sometimes you try so hard to get something "original" that you forget that simplicity is often the easiest way to originality.  Today I was really trying to be creative and come up with something "new" that was also "electronic"... and I was failing miserably.  Instead I reached back into the bag - way down there - and pulled out some traditional instruments.  Harp, Oboe, and Bassoon.  They are very colorful instruments in the classical family and combined they provide a very unique-sounding palette.

It's a brief one, so I hope you enjoy.

Cheers.