Bubblegum

I am still new enough at this to pretty much just try to ride along with the flow. Whenever I try too hard to make something happen it generally doesn't. Theory is great and can be interesting, but face it, chord progressions are a bit boring and worry about key signatures and chords and manufacturing a flow often has the effect of slowing the creative process rather than helping it.

I find I work much better if I have an idea whether it is a beat or a bassline and just put together sounds as opposed to sitting down with a key and a set of chords and trying to make something happen.

So I had a beat floating around in my head Sunday that I decided to turn into a piece of music. I really didn't know what to do with it since it was very hip hop and I don't generally do hip hop. But nonetheless I decided to just sit down and see where it went. By the time Jen got home from the island that evening I had put together something that sounded pretty cool to me. So of course I shared it with her.

Then it happened.. She used the word bubblegum. I didn't hear that in the piece really though I suppose it was "bright" due to a set of melody lines in it. Not that I haven't done bubblegum before, bright songs are fairly simple to create even if by accident.  Now I understand that I am still absolutely a raw newbie, BUT, as always, I am a bit competitive with myself (yes, really) and I expected to be past that at this point.

So that lead me to completely break the thing down Sunday night and start with just the beat and bassline, which were the core components of the thing. The result is something I called Mystery Beat Theatre (click to play when you get to soundcloud - you can see some of the other things I have posted on soundcloud while you are there). If you remember not too long ago I did a bubblegum bit called 1CC (found on my music page) which was the first piece of complete music I had done. I think you will agree, things have come quite a ways from there.

Have a great day and thanks for playing along.