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My first jam session in a couple weeks. Sorry for so much silence as of late. Thankfully I haven’t gotten sick or been caught up in the riots going on... I’ve just been working on other things. As much as I love making music, it isn’t making me any money at the moment. So my wife and I are looking into other businesses we could start at home.

In these shitty, shitty times, I’m having trouble focusing on cyberpunk. We’re a little too close to it right now. So instead I decided to do another 80s style synth track, something that I hope sounds a little more hopeful. Not bright and poppy, that’s not really my style. But something that isn’t smothering and hopeless.

For some reason I just had this very basic arpeggio, an 8 beat one that goes 12312312 pop into my head last night and refuse to leave. It’s been used a million times before, and it’ll be used a million times again in the future, in all kinds of music. I’m pretty sure I’ve even played it back when I was in an early music ensemble in college. But no matter how simple it was, no matter how often it’s been used, it just nested itself in my brain and wouldn’t go away. So I decided to plug my keyboard in and give it a new place to live.

It starts out with an inverted minor chord, leading to a the minor 5 chord... but I wanted to give it a little something else after the main loop, so I had it transition to the major 6, then major 7 before returning home.

Haunted Adventure Game Theme

This was originally an attempt at a theme for a podcast @squeeblr and I are trying to pull together, but it ended up sounding too spooky for the project (Isn’t that always how it is with me?). It was way too long and sort of too bloated, we wanted something a bit simpler. So, I guess this is the theme to a video game that doesn’t actually exist now. Maybe I’ll use it for something, hell, I dunno. It sounds good. At first I was scared it sounded too Adventure Zone, but on second thought I figure it doesn’t really sound much like the music in that show. Anyway, I’m super proud of it, I spent all day on it.

YouTube Link is below, as always. You should subscribe to my channel if you like stuff like this, because it’s like half of what my content is. 

Synth Track 10

A chiptune track I made this morning.