NOW I CAN BE LAZY AGAIN!

Nah, just kidding. I still have more music that I'm working on because I love it.

But it's done!
Thanks a lot, camoshark! It's always good to have the help of some Ca$h.

I'm hoping to get a lead sheet for this song out at some point, and I'm definitely going to be putting this on my album, which is getting closer and closer to completion. Only two more pieces that I'm planning to put on it!

Okay, seriously. I was never expecting that this currently-about-four-and-a-half-minute song would take LONGER to make than Birth of an Astral Nation!

Currently at 96 hours (10 more than BoaAN) and it's not even done. I guess I did have to redo the mixing twice because it's been an absolute pain in the arse to mix, but still! Come on. x.x

...on the plus side, it's even more intricate than BoaAN, has a lot of variation in the main melody while still keeping the catchy awesomeness, tons of little fancy touches everywhere, and even some sexy sexy saxophone and trumpet solos which also took a long time to splice and rearrange into the solo sections (considering half of the stems I received from /someone/ were somewhat odd in rhythm/harmony/ending-of-phrases/whatever, though I suppose not giving any particular scale for it along with live soloing WOULD cause some of it).

Blargh. Goal is to get it posted by Monday. (MAKE THAT A BIT LATER, I DECIDED TO MAKE A LEAD SHEET FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO MAKE THEIR OWN VERSION OF IT)

On a side note, anyone who's ever wanted me to try EDM should be happy - I am going to do so and have even started on something which is currently 1 minute long and took a bit less than 4 hours to make (in a car, so I couldn't work on the other piece). So far, my calculations show: Trippy jazz/funk=about 21.3 hours per minute of well-polished music. EDM ambient trance/house/whatever=about 4 hours per minute of reasonably-well-polished music. ;3 Guess teh mathz dunt lie, EDM is easier than jazz/funk.

This isn't actually the song I was talking about in my last news post, but it's EVEN BIGGER. The jazzy thing is coming, don't worry.

This is more important - it's my submission to Bosa's Dreams of Splendor contest!

So much work was put into this song, it's in the description of the music. I might upload a second version if five people don't like the minute at the end. It was a stylistic choice for storytelling, but still...

Now, I won't keep you in the dark any more.

Here it is.

The Birth of an Astral Nation.

(What a way to start out a new year of music, neh?)

This song. Is taking so long. To make.

Time spent thus far: 50 hours 44 minutes.
Length of song: Approximately 3 minutes.
Melodic instruments: 12.
SFX without other mixing/automation effects: 1
Percussive instruments: 10, including three different kinds of snaps.
Automations: 19.
Different keys: Uh. I don't think I can really count that.
Sections so far: Intro -> Main theme -> Atmosphere -> A Surprise -> Main Theme II -> Another Surprise -> Solo #1 -> Solo #2 -> Drum solo -> Not made yet.
Main melody: Extraordinarily catchy.

It's gonna be a great one, especially since I FINALLY figured out how to mix properly. ...granted, this is a ridiculously difficult song to mix, but it should still be better than my other songs. Only main problem is getting the kick to stick out far enough in some sections, but that's a relatively minor issue...

In any case! Hopefully I'll have this up soonish, sorry for not uploading too many other songs in the meantime! I've been rather busy, and making a few other songs for a speshul project I'm working on. THAT, however, will not be finished until faaaaaaar into the future.

Lettuce to all of you!

to me! It's been quite awhile. I'm happy about it, and I've been enjoying life so far. :)

How have you liked your life so far?

What's the strangest instrument you know of? I'm not talking about a synthesizer, I'm talking about a real mechanical or electrical instrument.

Mine would have to be the oomphalapompatronium. If you have no idea what that is, then you should learn.

Things have been slow recently, and I haven't uploaded anything too interesting... I only have one other song that I need to make which is less interesting, and then I have not one, but TWO interesting ideas to make! Both of them play on a "cold" theme, and I'm hoping to collab on them both with Kor-Rune, winner of the NGADM! Yep, things are looking up! :)

In other news, I played with a marching band yesterday and achieved a gold medal rating! So now, I have my third shiny medal that I can put on my door.

In other other news, I should be meeting with someone in the movie industry soon - wish me luck, hopefully I'll be able to get some kind of job with them!

I am proud to present the giant amalgam of sound that I've been working on for the past two weeks. It is some kind of progressive rock, I think. I really don't know what it is completely. However, that doesn't matter it's awesome go listen to it now:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/504403

Also. Bloop.

Okay, so. I was digging through my old stuff and found some of my earliest music projects, so I thought...

"Why not upload them here and let people hear how bad I was when I started?"

So yeah. Here they are, please read the descriptions in each. ^_^ Or at least look for the timestamps, they're in the first two paragraphs and have links to the other song.
Nostalgia 1 (My first song): http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/501072
Nostalgia 2 (one of my better songs from back then): http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/501073

Okay, this.

I want an essay (or at least a comment) on what you think about it. Honestly, what the hell is Disney doing.