Created 90 songs in 30 weeks: what should I work on for the last 9 ?

[gbucher]

Hi everyone !

I've been working on a "stickk" (https://www.stickk.com/commitment/details/531953) to create 3 songs per week for 33 weeks after reading "The War of Art" and "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise‎".

The main idea was to overcome resistance, finish songs and improve my skills by not trying to reach "perfection" (whatever that is) but by doing stuff.

I have just 9 songs left and would greatly appreciate all kinds of critics and comments so that I can work on it for these last 9 of this commitment...

https://soundcloud.com/gaspardbucher/tracks

https://www.facebook.com/gaspard.bucher

[BertKoor]

Of your current list, pick the bottom nine (you like least how they turned out) and remake them from scratch with some fresh insights.

[fluffy_little_something]

Um, those are not songs, song comes from singing. And that's why you can make such an absurd number of tracks in the first place, you don't have to write lyrics. It's just instrumental music, without the most important instrument, the human voice.

[AsPeeXXXVIII]

I'm just curious as to how you've been able to come up with enough ideas to compose so many tracks in so "short" a time.

[dark water]

Fair play gbucher, that's very impressive commitment and effort.

This might sound like a pisstake but it's not: similar to Bert's idea, do nine dub versions of your already formed tracks as it will be fun to switch elements around and create entirely new tracks from the same ingredients, plus it could enhance your skills in another area.

[gbucher]

Of your current list, pick the bottom nine (you like least how they turned out) and remake them from scratch with some fresh insights.

Thanks BertKoor I think this is an excellent idea (which annoys me a lot) ! But as I dislike most of them and don't have enough time to listen to them all these days, I think I'll just take the first 9 starting with number #09 and ending by recreating #01...

So this is the first one I'll re-create...

https://soundcloud.com/gaspardbucher/09-snap

[Harry_HH]

I think most of the pieces are innovative, well composed, sounds good.
What I liked to know, always in these days, how much samples used. I don't mean sample-based instruments, but ready samples/loops.
And which jnstruments you play (midi incl.) yourself. Anyway, well done.

[gbucher]

I haven't used any loops or musical samples and nearly all sounds were designed from scratch (synth init). My goal with this project was to learn, not to create lots of useless stuff.

I play the keyboard but in this project 99% of midi was inserted by hand. There are no "real" instruments except for some samples of my baby girl's toys .

I did use some vocal samples on two or three songs, most importantly a former slave singing (library of congress) for "birdsong":

https://soundcloud.com/gaspardbucher/03-bird-song

[Harry_HH]

As said, well done.
What I don't get, is the work flow where you "play" your (midi) instruments "by hand", as you say.
I know, its very common in these days, but for me producing/composing means always that I play instruments (either virtual ones via midi keyboard) or "real ones" via their interfaces.
Tagging midi plots for a piano roll with the mouse is for me most unmusical way. Why not use keyboard?
Someone could say, that classical music is often composed by plotting notes over the 5 lines, but that's not the same, because the composing happens in head, first, and piano roll composing just repeats patterns or is based in trial&error. Ir Am I wrong....maybe...
But that's me, my handicap, I guess. Note: I'm not saying what is good or bad, I just don't get the "piano roll playing", its not a interface either for playing or composing, for me.

[Chandran]

Youhoo Gaspard, well done! I suggest to take chunks or elements from the tracks you like more and do the last nine with that. Curious to ear that!
Best!

[gbucher]

First remake is done. For this project all sounds, drums, synths and vocals were created from samples of my own voice. I feel that the hardest part was to create the kick drum. The bass is made with an EMU II sampler emulation and some short vocal extract as oscillator. 6.5h work.

https://soundcloud.com/gaspardbucher/91-snappily

PS: Sampler is TAL Sampler

[Googly Smythe]

Of your current list, pick the bottom nine (you like least how they turned out) and remake them from scratch with some fresh insights.

Thanks BertKoor I think this is an excellent idea (which annoys me a lot) ! But as I dislike most of them and don't have enough time to listen to them all these days, I think I'll just take the first 9 starting with number #09 and ending by recreating #01...

So this is the first one I'll re-create...

https://soundcloud.com/gaspardbucher/09-snap

Compose 9 that you like.

[gbucher]

Compose 9 that you like.

I just did a remake (which was fun to work on again) but will do just that for the end: try to create something I like....

https://soundcloud.com/gaspardbucher/93-rib-caged

[Googly Smythe]

Compose 9 that you like.

I just did a remake (which was fun to work on again) but will do just that for the end: try to create something I like....

https://soundcloud.com/gaspardbucher/93-rib-caged

Sorry for being sarcastic.

[foosnark]

Um, those are not songs, song comes from singing. And that's why you can make such an absurd number of tracks in the first place, you don't have to write lyrics. It's just instrumental music, without the most important instrument, the human voice.

Wait, that's not big enough