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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CBo4OX5CWHaAzNI2o-ApHisYWZjjxtvJ/view?usp=sharing First WIP for Violation, just sat down tonight to get the base out of the way. No percussion yet. I like how this is sounding to start with ?

Final WIP for blocking out Excite Town. Lots of little things to change when final pass is done later. Quite like how most of this turned out https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FP7TrmFhhT-4t0f_b8k1wc2CZ6ADGU3D/view?usp=sharing

Almost done with Excite Town , some changes to the mix and performances. ? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SuLxM2JjMj5EHBE4AT6unppJC4s6Li9Z/view?usp=sharing

Levels and mix are all over the place. But it's sounding better I think. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vACfhWhAK7Tk8pjejCvQ8ncJtF1AUFdW/view?usp=sharing

Next WIP for Excite Town. Feel like this is taking shape much better. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H5HoluNOhkfHATu1EMRaGYKB3-_4VlQW/view?usp=sharing

It's been a while, lack of motivation(Anxiety) and work have been taking a little bit of a toll. But i've been slowly starting on new tracks. Here's my first WIP for [b]Excite Town[/b]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hUs2gwCaC8w6Y-oOKA8aJH172GhHxrE8/view?usp=sharing I'm not quite happy with the intro yet and the mixing is slapped together. Let me know what you think of the direction this is taking if you have thoughts.

Still been plugging away at it here and there trying to get close what I originally envisioned in my head. Still a lot placeholder performances for bass/guitar solos and stuff. But the foundation is there. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EfFFAfDj-fF5JW034s7O82aHjm7l9VqP/view?usp=sharing

Next WIP of Pressure. Not much done, I had been working on it more recently but came down with Covid a few weeks ago despite getting vaccinated in Janurary. (Meanwhile none of my co workers got it and until this last week was only one of 2 in my department who actually was vaccinated. They were lucky they didn't catch it.)So last few weeks didn't feel well enough to do any work. Having a little bit of hard time with this one but it's mostly mental I think. Or mixing/instrument choice related. (Instruments are still very WIP) I have the structure planned out on paper already. I just have to make it work . https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AjTLaRjq88M-Tpp1CEg_Lpqd50UiUjby/view?usp=sharing

Second WIP of Pressure. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15ZW2arg6QtF6N1LXeMBdayl1lcQkW58N/view?usp=sharing

First WIP of Pressure (There will be an 4-8 bar intro for this... I uhh just can't quite think of it yet.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DcsP5S3JAn4PSGUU31Cv3n_ajgO6G3NQ/view?usp=sharing

Ended up going with straight beat. The drums putter out a bit at the end because I got lazy. But I think it's safe to say it's blocked out. I really like how it turned out. It will be fun to come back and finish completely at the end. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lw68HYE-Gy69bLgDjKwczhKhs-bkpjBh/view?usp=sharing

Chugging along. The drums near the end are placeholder as I can't quite decide on what to do with them. I asked a friend for an opinion on that. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uapnVCxJbmMNLBCocb1Aysvguo06ueo4/view?fbclid=IwAR0wtA2M2m9tzvu6uVgFBC0JVcbB-y0A9DOAkKhgSYmaa0tIiJhkpqtMHqU Attached are samples of drum riffs I tried to kind of go with. If you have an opinion on which one seems to fit best. I'd greatly appreciate your thoughts. Thank you. Power which drum 1.ogg Power which drum 2.ogg Power which drum 3.ogg

Next WIP for Power. Had a fast start to this one and then typical demotivation set in lol. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rQXLISAUoIUmWBvZuppCvnC6ZsGhIEyW/view?usp=sharing

Here's the next WIP of Advanced as well, almost done blocking this one out. Feels like an ordeal, but listening to it after taking a break for a while I like it more than I thought perhaps. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZiOMMuLTKTLqwikwlIXBzRw0gjXY0vJS/view?usp=sharing

Found it pretty easy to get some ideas for this one. Having a lot of fun so far. https://drive.google.com/file/d/104NPbeWxQW3xL3A3p73aSGXdTJvcEiK2/view?usp=sharing

I'm almost done with Advanced as far as blocking out goes. I've done a lot of work since the last wip but not quite there yet as i'm still struggling with it a bit. I did have some ideas on how to start Power though! Took inspiration from A Prologue and here's the first quick WIP https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ia-n_GTx6RTrM54Arh94NU232AVXLrIB/view?usp=sharing

Another update, almost done blocking this one out I think.. i've probably had the hardest time with this one out of all i've done so far. Sure have spent the most time trying to piece it together.(And realizing later that i've fallen again into my no repetition trap that I used to years ago where I don't ever repeat a single variation of a section of music and every repeat has something different about it.>_> Without realizing that repetition is *ok and it always holds me back.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I3FVN6sbk2JKNDQKt8NGdXxKGJ979M4U/view?usp=sharing

Got a few more blocks of melody in there https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fj4f4cHsAnTCJfGQAo4fJF7Y4Ims-bo_/view?usp=sharing

Some more progress, I figured out how I could integrate something that's been in my mind since I first thought of doing this song. Still blocking it out, but the core idea makes me smile at least Vocoder still misbehaving. And lots of clipping so please forgive it! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wBAj6VLAuD1n8eFceeSLbbwhPTuytUac/view?usp=sharing

Getting some more motivation and ideas https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pco7Ql4xTM-FCemRfh8GSMRxaj12fORd/view?usp=sharing

Admittedly i've had a really hard time getting motivated and trying to come up with ideas for Advanced that don't stray too far from the original tune. Here's what i've worked on since last time, there is a break where the real Bass cuts out to a Synth one just because that's made it easier to block out how I want to write it before recording it on a real one, while going back and forth between the two with ideas. There is some clipping in this render as well, so sorry about that. If you have any thoughts feel free to chime in. Also: The Vocoder likes to misbehave and so on the second loop when it starts it has drifted a lot. >_> https://drive.google.com/file/d/13fr4WYQnudRL8Lm-5ExHBKyb74ur33qd/view?usp=sharing

Some more work on Advanced. I really wanted to work in a Vocoder in this song. It's still very much an early WIP. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tlApqnFunV25QfIzwSDJUHtu0iiu-6uZ/view?usp=sharing

Some small changes to Over i've made recently First link below and first WIP for Advanced below it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1txu6qum7n4Cy7HbI3-w3msOVORE4ugRc/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1txebu40Zr8cCTa4EKZUfL74MtdehZXVN/view?usp=sharing

Song is pretty much blocked out I think, mixing is basic. But I think the idea gets across. I think i'll still add some stuff here and there maybe. (Like fixing the drums in the final measures that I messed up on and it's just a bad copypasta) https://drive.google.com/file/d/18sTzERMu9SJBKVf6hVh-u8HZ4aXty_sX/view?usp=sharing

Synthwave isn't necessarily my cup of tea. But I really like what you did with this here. The intro and the background chords really hit me in all the right places, however I think the lead that starts at 1:11 is a bit too forward in the mix and dry sounding. Maybe add some more effects or add an LFO to modulate the cutoff frequency just slightly, or maybe add a MIDI overdub adding Modwheel on top to modulate it a little bit by hand. /Thumbs up!