Mike's Synthy Shorts

Short musical compositions using synths and Garageband. New short every week until the end of 2019!

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The final synthy short of the year and for this project! This last one was special. I had other people make the synth tracks. From there, my job was to combine them all together to get a cohesive short. I played with volume, panning, and added a little beat to it. I think it turned out okay!

Thank you to Cella, James, Matthias, Nathaniel, and Nicholas for making the music for me to work with! Also thank you for everyone who followed along! I hope you enjoyed the journey we went on together.

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This synth is evoking a bit more of a modern Christmas vibe. This was made a few days before Christmas. While Christmas is over now, it may still be magical to listen to. 

Only one week left! Something special is coming for the last week next week!

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While Christmas may be over for some (and still yet to come for others), this short tries to take some of the instruments you here during Christmas and try to evoke a magical feel you get when they come together. Hope you enjoy!

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Using some oriental drum kits, this synth came to be. Imagine you are in a hidden forest with creatures attacking you. You can't escape. . . until! something hovers over you and shines a bright light on the ground.

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When you're rocking out in outer space to your funky soundtracks, but something strange is happening outside. You are too oblivious to notice until the last sec--

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This week’s synth is inspired by meditation music that I have been listening to on a daily basis. I tried to go for a calming, reflective, background music tone with this one. You can stick this on in the background and reflect and meditate, or just use it to calm down at the end of the day.

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This week’s synthy short is inspired by the tv show, Sleepy Hollow, intro music. I recently re-watched it, and I thought that it would be interesting to do my own take on something similar to the intro.

Let me know your thoughts!

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Inspired by the synth sounds of "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" by Hall and Oates. I decided to do my own take of that song to make a fun little synth piece. 

Enjoy!

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Are you entering a creepy house? What are these strange happenings in this graveyard? Where is that music coming from...?

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This week’s short is meant to be a loop. This loop can be used for some soloing or rapping or whatever you please. You can riff over this with other instruments and have fun with it. It is reminiscent of a digging song, a worker song used to pass the time.

Enjoy!

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One day driving home, I had the radio on and I heard the end of the song “Thunder” by Shaed. I thought, hmm this is a cool sound. So later that week, I decided to try out making something similar to the feel of the ending of that song. This short synth is what came out of that.

Tell me your thoughts!

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Just some noises you may hear in video games and casinos!

Let me know what you think!

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How does this synth piece make you feel? Nervous that something is coming? Worried aliens are going to come and get you? Have you already been abducted? Maybe it is just the background music when something eerie happens to you. It’s your choice...

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Sampling synth! I found out GarageBand had a sampling function. I decided to try it and use it as a basis for this piece. However, it did not work as I had hoped, but I still pressed on and made a listenable synth piece! Songs sampled are “Never Knew” by The Rocket Summer and “Divide” by Bastille.

Just as a disclaimer, I own those tracks from purchasing the albums and having them in my collection. However, I do not profit from sampling them. Nor do I own the rights to those songs.

Enjoy!

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This week’s synth short is inspired by the Twin Peaks theme. I watched a video on how it was created, and I wanted to get a similar eerie feeling from the theme as I did when I first heard it. So I tried to evoke similar feelings and emotions from that.

Enjoy!

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I decided about 3 weeks ago I was going to do a synth piece every week to grow as a musician and create something new and different for me. I don’t have much experience using synths or GarageBand, so I am trying something new to experiment and get better at using them.

This piece is Stranger Things inspired. I watched a video about the synths used for the Stranger Things themes, and I was inspired to create my own piece similar to that.

I hope you enjoy!

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Welcome to Mike’s Synthy Shorts!

One day, I was watching a video about the synths used in the Stranger Things’ themes. After watching this, I was inspired to create my own synth piece. From there, I decided “Hm, maybe I should do this more to gain more experience using synths and getting synth sounds”. So I hopped on my phone, used GarageBand, and created the first synth short.

This blog will feature my shorts that I create. I use GarageBand and the synths that it contains for every piece. Each short is generally less than a minute long. I am using this to expand my horizons as a musician. My plan is to post one new short every week until the end of 2019.

I hope you enjoy what I post. Feel free to comment on anything you like, dislike, and whatever other thoughts you have. Welcome to this journey.