For the longest time, I was trying to get around to making an original composition. For some reason though, it came from a very unlikely place.
So a few days ago, I just got onto my computer and went "I wanna make music" and as I turned to my keyboard to start playing something I noticed a dead bug on my keyboard speaker.
I would love to know what the hell this guy is since I think I've seen him in Animal Crossing but I can't actually identify if he's in it.
So I got to writing about him just some simple chords and basic rhythms for melodies and all of a sudden I had written the whole piece in one sitting. It's alittle strange though because I've somehow reverted to how I used to write my music when I was in college.
I basically had the piano and MuseScore open and just started going ham.
Before, I only knew how to write 2 chord vamps and make some simple melodies and honestly, I was already content back then during my first two years or so.
This piece was weird since usually when I write, I would aim to practice a specific aspect of composition like 16th notes or some weird harmony or time signature. For this one though, it came very naturally to include a bit of that practice without really thinking about it.
It's a piece that goes between the paralell Major and Minor keys with C Minor/Eb Major and C Major/A Minor which isn't what I usually work with. I've somehow smoothly transitioned between the two by using a G7aug thingy and just direct modulations which sound kinda cool.
The dead bug was what inspired me to write the damn thing so I made it start out sad, then happy then end sad because why not. I guess I wanted to imagine this bug's life up to the point where he was lying on my speaker hahaha.
After writing it and doing the work in FL Studio, I spoke to a friend to get some feedback and they said that it isn't my usual style. I agree but she's really only seen my latest stuff and not much of the ones when I was in college. I would always write pieces like this and I guess I kind-of forgot how to do it until now. It all just came back suddenly.
I wrote this for a homework and while some instruments are a bit different from back then, the general idea is preserved with this lightly touched up version I exported to show my friend. It used to have a solo Cello but I don't have a good VST of it so you'll have to deal with a whole section hahaha.
The prompt for this homework was to get a picture and try to score music for it. There was an artist that I recently followed at the time that drew this wonderful sunset. I believe they're @ATkeynote on most Social Media. (Hopefully they won't mind the inspiration for homework)
Maybe I'll remake this piece one day but until then this is what you get hahaha.
Anyway, this whole composition and everything around it reminded me of much simpler times. It was nice to be able to write something like this again with my improved knowledge of working with my tools.