An Abyss Too Pretentious
After laboring on and off for a few weeks with Garageband and the Roland, I present to you all my first “completed” song: An Abyss Too Bright.
This song started out with a bass line that Mark laid down for me this past summer. It is a minor tragedy that we’re not in the same town to get up to such musical shenanigans more often, since he’s both technically adroit and melodically creative. Everything I did in this song stems from the little phrase he played for me in July.
I’m happy with this one. I only used canned loops for the two drum beats; everything else I recorded or sequenced myself. I am humbled by the tools I used to create this tune; shit works together too well, too well by far. This is what I bought the computer for, and I am not disappointed in the least.
A couple of people may have heard earlier versions of this piece, so if you’re one of those people, it’s worth downloading again.
November 10th, 2005 at 9:40 pm
Nifty. Not bad for a first Garageband track!
And yeah, Garageband is great stuff. Though Logic Pro is way better.
(Hopefully I’ll have something to show for it someday, though I did http://www.songfight.org/music/sign_my_box/octothorpe_smb.mp3 in Logic Express, though Logic Pro totally blows Express away in every way.)
(Also uh, why do you disable HTML tags? Linking is so much cooler than just putting URLs in plaintext.)
November 10th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
Oh, and by ‘not bad’ I mean ‘that is really damn good.’
November 10th, 2005 at 10:28 pm
Glad you clarified that, fluffy.
I really enjoyed the song. And our roommate thinks you should compose for videogames, which is a high musical compliment for him.