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This song is in 6/4 and I found throughout the process that I kept hearing and writing parts in 4/4 to accompany the original beat. There were three separate occasions where I was listening to loops and wondering why they didn’t line up, only to realize that I that varying loop lengths. I also compo…
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Like another track I submitted recently, this song starts in 7/4, breaks down in 5/4, and then drops into 7/4 to finish. I worried less about making that all fit together and just tried to compose parts that complimented each other. I started with the 7/4 part and then used some of the same notes an…
on Nov 11
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on Nov 7
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44 Weekly Beats 2024 Higher Than Low
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At 44 weeks, it’s starting to feel like the home stretch of this project. I am definitely feeling fatigued creatively at this point and struggling to find the energy and enthusiasm to complete tracks like this one. I can tell I am starting to rely on certain formulas that have worked in the prior we…
on Nov 4
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43 Weekly Beats 2024 Move On Back From You
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This is one of those songs that allowed me to stretch out of my comfort zone, but also left me wanting to put more time into it than I had available. I technically started in Ableton Note where I built a drum kit using samples from a Loopcloud trial. I also chose a vocal sample to use and set my pro…
on Oct 28
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42 Weekly Beats 2024 Lose My Mind
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This track started out in Ableton Note with a Drum Kit I loaded with a handful of different vocal samples in the same key that I found on Splice. Then I created a Drum Kit with actual drum sounds that I already had in my library. I decided to use two different sets of kicks and snares with two kicks…
on Oct 21
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I kept my streak going of working in non-standard time signatures, this week working in 9/4. I am not as excited about this one as I am with my tracks from the few weeks prior, but I am glad I tried. Having to come up with beats and melodies outside of the normal 4/4 context has been a good challeng…
on Oct 7
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32 Weekly Beats 2024 Acutely Aware
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on Aug 12
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31 Weekly Beats 2024 The Scraps
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This is another fun, upbeat track featuring more chopped up Splice samples. I really rushed to put this together over the latter half of the week, so I still find it rough around the edges. But I had a good time making it and that is what matters.
on Aug 5
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Short and sweet, this track is a quick hitter coming in at only 1.5 minutes. I scrapped the idea I had been working on most of the week and threw some samples from Splice into Ableton Simpler devices and chopped them up quickly. I kept the structure of my song short so that I would have time to do s…
on Jul 29
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28 Weekly Beats 2024 Funny Guy
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Another ambient offering this week, also started on Friday and uploaded Sunday morning. This time I was able to use a field recording I created myself. I am on a trip and staying at a place on Lake Huron, and I was able to capture the sound of the waves with my new handheld recorder. I spent a lot o…
on Jul 15
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27 Weekly Beats 2024 Intertwined
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This is another ambient track with no percussion. I have enjoyed making more of these this year. This week, I actually started on a more upbeat, funky track, but I just could not get into it even after forcing myself to work on it a couple of times. I actually pivoted to this ambient track on Friday…
on Jul 8
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26 Weekly Beats 2024 A Smattering
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I started this track in Ableton note, primarily working on combining the tuned percussion sounds with soft pads. Then I created the beat in one stock drum rack before moving over to my main DAW. Once there, I replaced one of the pads and added more effects and a new lead part. I actually started a s…
on Jul 1
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24 Weekly Beats 2024 I Feel Fine
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My first late upload! Wow... Well, the first thing I will say is THANK YOU to the organizers and participants for being flexible. This track was far enough along that I was prepared to upload it this evening before the deadline and I even left myself enough time to sit down and do so, but I couldn’t…
on Jun 26
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25 Weekly Beats 2024 Passing Through
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This is another ambient track with no percussive elements. I loaded all of the soft pad presets I could find in Ableton Note and started creating layers that worked together over the course of the week. I do have trouble with those presets because when I get them into the DAW, I notice the soft, sin…
on Jun 24
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This track started out on my Push 2. I have a set of dice I use to help me avoid getting stuck on a decision when I first start a project. I used those to decide on the key and the elements I started with. Here it was the electronic ride sound and pad you hear at the beginning. From there, I added t…
on May 27
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19 Weekly Beats 2024 Around The Fountain
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on May 13
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18 Weekly Beats 2024 Finally Home
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I set this project at 126 BPM when I started, but after I played out some melodies and added percussion with basic kick and rimshot sounds, I realized everything was in half time. So, while I did not intend to create a downtempo track, that is what I ended up with. I composed everything on my Push 2…
on May 6
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This week marks the return of my Push 2 my setup. Back in February, it started sending random MIDI signals to my computer and I had to stop using it. Thankfully, Ableton has a paid replacement program and I was able to get a refurbished model by sending mine in and paying about $100. I have had my P…
on Apr 29
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It has been a rough couple of weeks. I just barely made a submission last week and was not sure going into this week whether week 13 was the end for me and Weekly Beats 2024. Later in the week I started to put my head down into this track without any expectations and I am really happy with how it ca…
on Apr 8
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11 Weekly Beats 2024 Small Favor
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This was a tough week to stay motivated, but I made sure to put some time into this track each day, even if just for a small amount of time and even if it didn’t feel like I was making progress. I started out in Ableton Note again, but instead of building out only a beat, I used four tracks to creat…
on Mar 19
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8 Weekly Beats 2024 Kiss Scene
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This week presented some logistical hurdles. I had some vacation days sprinkled in, but not the kind where I had any large chunks of free time. And when I did have a moment to fire up my system, my Push 2 started acting up. All of the parameters were jumping around as if I were rapidly turning all o…
on Mar 1
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7 Weekly Beats 2024 True Statement
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I have a template set I use to start my tracks that I have been using for while and I have been meaning to update it with more settings and sounds. Specifically, one of the things I wanted to do was load multiple sounds of a certain type that I like so I have limited number to choose from. I started…
on Feb 21
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6 Weekly Beats 2024 Something Else
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I have a track that I completed for the Disquiet Junto that seems to be popular relative to my other tracks on SoundCloud based on the number of plays. The prompt for that week was essentially to make a “complicated” beat and I put something together between that Thursday and the following Monday. I…
on Feb 12
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5 Weekly Beats The Way You Do It
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I went into this week with the goal of making a minimal house track. I wanted to keep things simple because I need to get in a groove where I can keep up the weekly pace for the whole year. I still ended up with a complicated draft, but once I was able to organize the tracks into groups, I deleted s…
on Feb 5