2022 Wrapped.
Happy New Year everyone! With the holiday season wrapping up, I wanted to recap on all things Make A Tune last year:
SOREUM
Musically, I got the metal out of my system with a 4 track Djenty EP, with riffs that had been hanging about in musical purgatory ever since I acquired my 7 String guitar.
A classic musician trope is being too precious with ideas, waiting too long, and never putting them out into the world.
The ep has my first attempts of adding synths and sounds outside of just guitar bass drums into a metal song.
The song that came together the best for me was āGatekeeperā. Not only was it my favourite riff, but the lyrics of the song are very much about what āmake a tuneā is conceptually.
GATEKEEPER MV
My second DIY music video, shot on iPhone, where I used multiple takes of myself whilst keeping the phone in the same place, then editing them together to look like a band lol. I made something similar at the end of 2021 when I recorded 3 songs in one take, 4 times (bass, guitar 1, guitar 2, vocals) to create a sort of fake but real live show. This was easier as it was just for the visual purpose. Still worked out pretty well for a budget of Zero!
MAKE A TUNE CONTENT
I know, I know. It is what it is. Everyone calls it content, to the point where I think itās either lost its pretentiousness or itās just eaten all other possible words around it. Anyway, there was a few interesting things on YouTube.
My baritone video did really well. I guess it was a new guitar that must have peaked a lot of peopleās interest. I really enjoyed hearing peopleās thoughts and engaging in the comments with questions people had. Whilst I definitely donāt have the credentials to be a product review guy, I think if thereās anything new things I pick up this year, I will put more effort into sharing my thoughts on it.
MAKE A VLOG
I didnāt do as many KPop metal covers this year, mainly as I was working on Soreum. My first venture into mixing my metal riffs with KPop was inspired by Dreamcatcher in 2020, when Scream showed up in my timeline and opened my ears to the possibility. This year they have inspired me to grow the channel in a different way: by documenting my journeys seeing them live!
BEATS AND PIECES:
Even with all the travel, it wasnāt till last month that I actually got Covid for the first time! I WORKED THROUGH LOCKDOWN 2020 AS AN ESSENTIAL WORKER AND EVERYTHING, SO ANNOYING!
Anyway, whilst I self isolated, I got to do a project that I had wanted to do for a while. Similar to what I said before about my metal riffs, I have built up so many little musical projects that were gonna sit there doing nothing on my hard drive. So I went through a bunch, picked a mix of genres, filled them out, and released them as instrumentals in an album called Beats and Pieces. Are they all bangers? Nope! But itās a good starting point to hear where Iām at as a total novice producer trying new things, seeing what works, what resonates with people. It also serves as a good way to free myself for this year.
2023
I literally have no idea, AND ITS AWESOME!
SOREUM got the metal out my system, Beats and Pieces got all the little half ideas and experiments out there. I feel like I have a blank canvas with no lingering projects I need to finish off.
I want to make something fresh, something that doesnāt exist yet not even as an idea or a humming tune in my head, or a specific genre of music that I always said I would do. Iām just going to make the music I feel like making there and then, and go for it!
Content wise I think I might go back to live streaming, but just on YouTube not twitch. I think I can engage with an audience more if thereās no definite goal with the tune making. Like if I was live streaming producing SOREUM it would have been very dull, messing up, taking no suggestions, getting frustrated at not achieving the exact thing Iām wanting to do. But freestyle music making with people suggesting ideas could be a lot of fun!
Thatās it from me, thanks for everyone showing interest in my weird little musical world. Hereās to another year of good times and good tunes!
Much love
Scott
















