Hey Andy, I wanted to drop you a line to say thanks for the mention and I’m really glad my comment had an impact and was inspiring to you.
Thought you might be interested in a little backstory to it: partly why I said what I said is because I too, once upon a time, was tinkering around with making EDM music and figuring out what the hell to do with it. That project’s long since expired and relegated to the deep, dark cobwebbed corners of my hard drive, but I learned a lot and had a lot of fun along the way.
It’s really interesting to me how your experience teaching yourself to program and so on with no traditional music training mirrors my own. I’ve no training, and while I don’t have borderline synesthesia phenomenon going on, I did find that I could ‘sense’ the music while I was creating it. I sort of followed my musical intuition wherever it went, and it went to pretty cool places, all told. At the time I was messing around with Fruity Loops, sticking notes on the Piano Roll and using template synths, but before that I’d been using GarageBand like you, too. I watched YouTube videos on how to mix and master and (because this was like 2016) how to create those cool square-wave ‘whoop’ sounds that were featured in basically every cool EDM track at the time.
And then…I’d made enough material to package together as an album. It was more than that, actually - as I’d gotten better and better, I’d decided to pair my music writing with my writing writing. I’d created the Official Soundtrack to the novel I was writing at the time. And I was really proud of it! Still am, though I’d say only a handful of tracks are really approaching the realm of professionalism that I aspired toward (or that you’ve achieved here).
All that to say, I saw potential in what you were doing to make something similar - an entire body of work rather than one-offs tracks. Glad you got there in the end. And well done! Still deciding on a favorite track, but Lately is a strong contender.
Hey Andy, I wanted to drop you a line to say thanks for the mention and I’m really glad my comment had an impact and was inspiring to you.
Thought you might be interested in a little backstory to it: partly why I said what I said is because I too, once upon a time, was tinkering around with making EDM music and figuring out what the hell to do with it. That project’s long since expired and relegated to the deep, dark cobwebbed corners of my hard drive, but I learned a lot and had a lot of fun along the way.
It’s really interesting to me how your experience teaching yourself to program and so on with no traditional music training mirrors my own. I’ve no training, and while I don’t have borderline synesthesia phenomenon going on, I did find that I could ‘sense’ the music while I was creating it. I sort of followed my musical intuition wherever it went, and it went to pretty cool places, all told. At the time I was messing around with Fruity Loops, sticking notes on the Piano Roll and using template synths, but before that I’d been using GarageBand like you, too. I watched YouTube videos on how to mix and master and (because this was like 2016) how to create those cool square-wave ‘whoop’ sounds that were featured in basically every cool EDM track at the time.
And then…I’d made enough material to package together as an album. It was more than that, actually - as I’d gotten better and better, I’d decided to pair my music writing with my writing writing. I’d created the Official Soundtrack to the novel I was writing at the time. And I was really proud of it! Still am, though I’d say only a handful of tracks are really approaching the realm of professionalism that I aspired toward (or that you’ve achieved here).
All that to say, I saw potential in what you were doing to make something similar - an entire body of work rather than one-offs tracks. Glad you got there in the end. And well done! Still deciding on a favorite track, but Lately is a strong contender.
That's awesome thanks for sharing. I pinned this comment so other people could see it. Let me know if you release the album or part of it!
The best thing since Behind the Music!!
Thank you 🙏
Damn. I will get this album soon as I am paid
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Not all héros wear capes. Not sure why there's an accent over the e but let's roll with it.
This is literature
you are wildly talented. leave a little for the rest of us!
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You are too kind.