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Beginnings: My current trance WIP!

Posted by Karco - March 29th, 2008


UPDATE 4-15-08: FINALLY! :D :D :D I figured out where the song's going now, and school is being a lot lighter than expected, so expect a lot of progress this week! >:) I might make the submission date a few weeks sooner, too. We'll see. :D Anyone want a demo? Contact me personally. I posted the one public demo, after that, everything's private. ;)

Progress reports will be up on Friday.

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UPDATE 4-13-08: I'll be making a progress report on my various WIPs, Beginnings and otherwise, sometime this week, so keep an eye out for it. ;) You'll be hearing (possibly literally, no guarantees) again from the likes of Rush and possibly a few others. :O

Also know that from this week until late May, school and stuff will be seriously brutal - so I'm not expecting to get much work done on much for that reason. It sucks, because it's times like those when I get the most inspiration. D:

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UPDATE 4-12-08: It's times like these I'm really thankful I made the RAM upgrade from half a GB to 2 GB a while back... Beginnings is pushing my computer to its limits and I shudder to think of how a computer with a quarter of the RAM I'm going on right now would take it. XD

I finished the second low point of Beginnings the other day. Why the second? It was easy to do, more of the song's finished that way, and I've been waiting to do it for forever anyway. :P I also did it hoping it'll help me figure out what I want to do for the first low point, which I'm about halfway done with, by the way. All I need to do is come up with the full melody (which I used to have, but am not going to use, as it doesn't fit) and the song's as good as finished. :O

And nobody I know in real life is sending me any e-mails... seriously? I wasn't expecting this, somebody I know has got to be visiting my page now and then. >:(

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UPDATE 4-11-08: So it's come to my attention that more people that I know in real life than I thought - friends, family, etc. - are viewing my page and listening to my songs. :O Thanks to those of you who let them know, and to those of you who I know who listen - e-mail me at karcotechno@yahoo.com sometime, it'll be cool. :D

And, augh - if I could just get past this first low point of Beginnings, the rest of the song would practically make itself... >:( Progress is being made, though at a ridiculously slow pace...

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UPDATE 4-4-08: I think Beginnings is officially on hold now. :\ Again, I'm on the first low point of the song, and right here I need some new composition... thing is, melodies and chord progressions come on their own with me, not when I want them to. I guess I'll just be patient...

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UPDATE 4-3-08: So I've been insanely backed up with school all week... the weekend might be a bit better, not sure about it yet. :\ Inspiration has also been extremely inconsistent lately, so things aren't looking good for Beginnings... D:

I'll just be making whatever, and updating the left area of my page if I make any progress on Beginnings/any new WIPs, as always.

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UPDATE 4-1-08: First off, none of what I say in this update is an April Fools' joke. I promise. XD

I've decided to rename Memory to "Time Will Tell." A lot more fitting, in my opinion. ;) Though sadly, I've still been making very little progress with it...

Also, has anyone noticed that I update the bottom of this newspost as progress is made/I have more to say there?

EDIT: Renamed it, again, to Beginnings. :P

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UPDATE 3-31-08: I said progress on Memory would pick up... thing is, it looks like I'm going to be crazy busy with school stuff... I'm also still lacking in inspiration. :\ We'll see how it goes, but don't expect too much progress in the near future...

I'm also considering a title change. The source of inspiration changed midway through production (like it seems to be doing with all of my songs XD) and now I'm thinking of changing to a title more... forward-thinking, and less nostalgic? Any ideas?

Lastly, endlessnumber showed me the trance artist Mike Foyles the other day... I have a new favorite artist now. :D Check him out now (mainly his song Shipwrecked), I found him on iTunes, though he's probably on a few other online stores, too.

EDIT: It's Foyle, not Foyles. :P

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First off, something struck me as I was taking an English test on Friday: trance music is a lot like poetry... though I'm not going to give my opinions here on why it is. Figure it out yourself. ;)

Second, sorry for being late in posting this (as I promised to those who read my page that I'd have it up yesterday)! D:

I'll get right to the point: Beginnings is my current and biggest Trance WIP, which surpasses in quality my latest two songs Temple and Contrast, which recently made the 1st and 5th, respectively, of the Weekly Top 5 on the Audio Portal, as well as my less recent song Falling Farther (Trance Remix), which was put on the front page. Following are the estimated length and submission date, as well as a three-minute demo and a few other thoughts.

(Those of you who knew all that already, I was originally going to put this on the front page, but I decided I'd do it later, as I can only put a news post of mine on the front page once every two weeks.)

Length: Around 8-10 minutes. This is less of an estimate and more of a goal, however - I can only have an influence on the progression of a song for so long, and after that, it takes off and it's the least I can do to keep up with the inspiration. XD It will be long, though, at a 6-minute minimum.

Submission Date: No later than sometime in late May. This is partially an inspiration thing, though mostly due to the fact that school takes priority over music, and I only get so much time a day to work on it. And if I want this to be my very best song yet, and a huge jump in quality, I'm going to have to take a lot of time making this song. ;) It could come earlier, but I'm guaranteeing a submission by June 1st, regardless of whether or not I've finished the song (though I should have it finished before then) - if it's not finished by then, though, I'll submit what I have.

Demo: Find it here! :D Ignore the little fade-in in the beginning, though, I don't know what happened there. o_O It's basically a teaser; it gives you a good idea of what most, though not all, of the song will be like. And to make up for the lateness in posting this news post, I extended it from 2 minutes, which I said I would give, to 3 minutes - practically all that I have right now! XD And I realize the sound quality's a bit weird, it's some Audacity thing - it'll sound a LOT better in the full version. ;) I know it says the title is Memory there, but remember, I changed the title to Beginnings. ;)

Other Points of Interest:
- The progression hopefully will be something along the lines of Intro-Breakdown-Build-Peak-Breakdown-B uild-Peak-Outro (so that makes the demo just the intro section)
- The second breakdown of the song will be the most powerful part of the whole song (and possibly my most powerful composition ever)
- A week or two ago I had a plan for what the peak would be like, in terms of melody/bassline/chord progression... now, the song's going in a different direction than I originally expected... though it seems to be a better one than what I had hoped. :D
- It's not really major or minor. Sure, you could go, "it's in F minor," or "it's in Ab Major," but, tonewise, is it really more one than the other? ;)
- This is one of my songs least influenced by other music, though it still is - Cordis's songs Lust and Grief both have their influence on this song. Which one it'll end up being the most like is yet to be seen... even I don't know. :O

Expectations: I originally said this song would fully live up to my expectations, though I'm already finding flaws in it that pretty much cannot be fixed. :\ I'm beginning to realize that for a song to fully live up to my expectations, it would have to be perfect, which just isn't realistic considering that I can find flaws even in Cordis's songs (though extremely minor ones XD). I'm still guaranteeing, though, that this song's going to be my best one yet, by far! ;D

Questions? Thoughts? Comments? Please don't hesitate if you have anything to say. ;)

Beginnings: My current trance WIP!


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Can't change it to Oasis, cuz now I'm producing a new track named that =D

I'll just throw out some words just for inspiration.

Scion, Vital, Deep Inside, Amped

Meh, that's it for now >.<

Thanks, though I've already come up with an awesome name. I'll post it later. :D

from the demo it looks pretty good. I'm not an expert in music though so I can't really be sure of what the final song will sound like. I hope it turns out well since it sounds like your working hard.

Heh, that's fine, at least you listened. :D I hope it turns out well, too...