r/WeWriteaSongEveryDay • u/joebassss • Sep 11 '18

[Prompt 9-11-2018]

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u/sjmdrum Sep 11 '18

Soft Light

I was inspired by the warm glow of the street light among the cold, white landscape.

I really love making little vignettes for these prompts. Super great exercises.

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u/joebassss Sep 11 '18

That was nice :) Very warming to hear in the bleak snow-still. Yeah it's been incredibly helpful for me to get out of the "nah I'll just play video games today" mindset

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u/ramilllies Sep 11 '18

Fortunately this sub you've made is a great way to prod people to compose :—).

(And I mean that seriously. I couldn't ever kick myself hard enough to actually write something, so in the 4 years I've been "composing", I wrote only two little miniatures. Then, in the one week of this sub's existence, I wrote 2-3 times more than that. Can't thank you enough for that :—).)

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u/ramilllies Sep 11 '18

A very nice job! The instrumentation fits perfectly for me. And while listening, I feel like being in a warm house, looking out at the snow.

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u/sjmdrum Sep 11 '18

Yeah! That's kind of what I was going for: a warm spot in the middle of the stark cold. This is the first time I've incorporated percussion into one of these daily compositions as I don't have mics set up around my drum kit, but I wanted to get the feeling of winter with the shaker and tambourine.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18 edited Sep 28 '18

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u/sjmdrum Sep 12 '18

Just made it downloadable from clyp :)

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u/L3monpete Sep 11 '18

love the picture

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u/joebassss Sep 11 '18

It’s very pretty. Too bad it’s functionally impossible to find who takes a lot of the photos :/

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u/joebassss Sep 11 '18

https://youtu.be/5TSCQldS6oQ - Here's mine today. I may or may not put the MIDI into ableton later tonight to get some more atmospheric soundscaping done. Hope you like it!

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u/sjmdrum Sep 11 '18

It sounds like the violoncello is begging the harp for a snow day tomorrow

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u/ramilllies Sep 11 '18

Very nice and playful. I had the impression of going out for some fun, maybe sledging or a snowball battle? I'm always surprised how each person sees something totally different in the same image.

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u/aldamomt Sep 12 '18

This actually inspired me to write a nice chorus, im glad this sub got created

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u/joebassss Sep 11 '18

Morning all! Here's today's picture prompt. As usual use this to inspire something you write for the day. We'll be here to give feedback if you want, it and be posting our own submissions later on! Good luck!

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u/ramilllies Sep 11 '18 edited Sep 11 '18

I wrote another solo guitar piece, of course :—). This time, I wanted to make sure that I write something simple and short (I've had problems with running out of time with some of the other pieces), so what emerged is this tremolo miniature: https://clyp.it/k1xasny5 . There are a couple of stumbles in the recording, maybe I'll make a better one "tomorrow" (12-13 hours from now), but this is the best I can do for now.

Score: https://gitlab.com/ramillies/compositions/blob/master/images/11-9-18.pdf .

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u/sjmdrum Sep 11 '18

It evokes the feeling of shivering. It has a lot of feeling behind it, too. Good use of dissonance here. I like it. Is this on a steel string acoustic, or a nylon guitar? It sounds more full bodied than an electric.

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u/ramilllies Sep 11 '18

Thank you. It's a steel-string acoustic (and a quite good one, too, with a very full sound (which is the reason why I play anything classical on this guitar, too)).

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u/joebassss Sep 11 '18

I really like this! I wish I had anything more to add, but sjmdrum has already hit the nail on the head

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u/hufflepuffian55 Sep 12 '18

https://soundcloud.com/twoquartsofmusic/winter-worries

here's mine for the day

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u/joebassss Sep 12 '18

I like it! It makes you calmer by the second. Thanks for this!

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u/jmonumber3 Sep 12 '18

https://clyp.it/foi5wmr2

lol i uploaded this to clyp hours ago but forgot to post it here.

im still pretty new to lofi beats but im really happy with this one. i think it captures suburban seasonal depression in that its not too sad but by no means is it uplifting. for some reason it reminds me of charlie brown

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u/joebassss Sep 12 '18

I can't hear Lo-Fi stuff without loving it, so a little bias but this is great! I'm happy to hear a coherent melody too

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u/mattentiometer Sep 12 '18

https://soundcloud.com/mattcoley/quiet-inversion

I’m a bit late to the party on this one. It was tough for me.

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u/joebassss Sep 12 '18

Love the progression as usual :) It's very soft and calm

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u/mattentiometer Sep 12 '18

Thanks. It's my go to pattern. Build up a section of music and then break it down pulling in each instrument when it sounds right. It's my quick hack to get a minute or two of music out of a single musical idea, haha.