Hey everyone! If you're in the US, I hope you had a great holiday weekend and if you're not, I hope you picked up something awesome and cheap for Black Friday!
This week... I forgot to post the December genre poll (sorry about that - I'll be posting it soon for the rest of the December streams). So for yesterday, I decided to write some ch...
2021-12-02 17:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone & Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US!
Yesterday was the final session on the Christmas remix and I made some good progress. I wrote the drop, did some basic sound design, and arranged the rest of the song. After stream I spent a little bit dialing in a few bits that were really sticking out.
Overall, ...
2021-11-25 16:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone - I'm really excited to finally share this song with you! It's a song about moving on and moving forward. Alex Holmes is on the vocal again and she's done another amazing job! I've put a lot of work into this one and I really hope you enjoy it!
MP3, 24-Bit Wave, & Artwork are attached.
This song releases publicly on ...
2021-11-24 17:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Surprise, it's a FREE song! I wrote this for the community Extra Life charity event that is currently happening right now!! (Nov 20).
It's a fantasy/cinematic influenced EDM song that tells a story of adventure as a group sits around a campfire - during the event there is a DnD session and I felt like this song would be a great theme for t...
2021-11-20 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I hope your week is going well :)
I'm working on a Christmas Remix this week. Over on the Discord, we had a vote and the Twitch Subs & Patrons voted on "Carol of the Bells" for me to remix.
The original Carol of the Bells is in a 3/4 time signature (like a waltz) and in my head I was hearing some type of triplets ch...
2021-11-18 16:54:31 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
This week, I'm out of town Wed-Sun for the Mindcrack Marathon Charity event so this week's stream was yesterday and it worked out pretty well! I started off the stream just wanting to write some chords that I was vibing with, pinged chat for some ideas, and went from there!
After settling on a chord progression I follow...
2021-11-10 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis month, I'm writing my choice of genres (as voted by you), so I'm just going to go with what I am feeling each week. And I think for Nov 17, I'm going to work on a Christmas remix!
This week, I went with a plucky progressive house song. It's been some time s...
2021-11-05 18:03:47 +0000 UTC View PostNew month, new genre! What do you want to see me write? Vote below & I'll see you on stream Wednesday!
- Andrew
PS - I'm also leaning towards doing a Christmas remix during one of the streams this month (Nov 17)
Hey everyone! As mentioned in my update post on Friday, I'm enabling annual memberships. If you'd like to switch to an annual membership, you will receive a 10% discount.
To update your membership to annual, click on "Manage membership" from the user menu. If yo...
2021-10-31 19:50:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Today I'm announcing exciting adjustments to the Patreon tiers - I've been thinking about this for a while now and I'm making these changes with the goal of consolidating some of the repetitive benefits and adding value to all the tiers. These changes will go into effect on November 1 (Monday).
Additionally, I am enabli...
2021-10-29 19:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, I continued the idea I wrote last week. The main focus (like the 1st song this month) was to write a drop and finish the arrangement. I went more of a chillstep direction with th...
2021-10-28 16:07:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I wrote another song for Love Tropics again this year and this is it! I've been writing a lot of piano-focused deep house songs this year so I chose that style and worked with the theme of regrowth (hence the name, haha).
There are a lot of elements from the local area in the Caribbean that the charity is working with this year (like marim...
2021-10-27 16:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday was another melodic dubstep stream and I started another song idea. I started building out some foley percussion from field recordings & blended it with some proper dubstep drums. Then I wrote some chord ideas and with some input from chat, came up with what you hear in this version.
Despite some serious Zelda vib...
2021-10-21 16:18:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Yesterday was a followup stream on last week's song, Teardrops. I wrote the drop and arranged the rest of the song and I'm really happy with how it turned out!
The bulk of the writing work is done on this song. What's left is sound ...
2021-10-14 17:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostThis month I'm switching it up and writing some Melodic Dubstep. I was only able to come up with a verse and build, but I really like this idea. I started off writing chords and then moved to drums, some basic sound design and a lead melody. After that was some simple arrangement and FX to end up with what you hear above! 2021-10-07 16:29:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday was the final stream of September and I wrote something I really liked. After coming up with some okay chords/melody I built out some percussion and a few other layers. I wasn't satisfied with what I initially wrote so once I had the barebones layers down, I went back and rewrote the chords and melody.
The 2nd time around, I came...
2021-09-30 17:03:48 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Another week and another song! I came up with this idea after a few tries writing chord progressions and settling in on something I really liked. The pluck rhythm came to mind and after deciding on a direction I moved on to layering and some rough arrangement. I spent the rest of the stream exploring this idea and ended up in...
2021-09-23 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
This song was written on stream back in February. It's a piano-progressive house song in the style of "You," "Dream to Remember," and other similar songs. It's very evocative of Blocking the Sky and while I don't write in this style as much anymore, I feel like this one deserved to be finished.
MP3, 24-Bit Wave, & A...
2021-09-22 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
We still have 2 more streams in September, but October is going to be a new genre - what do you want to see me write? Vote below & I'll see you on stream tomorrow!
- Andrew
2021-09-21 17:07:13 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday was the 2nd Ableton stream and I think it went really well! Ideas are coming really quickly in Ableton and I definitely feel like it will be in regular rotation on stream moving forward.
This week I wanted to focus on writing some drum and bass ...
2021-09-16 16:03:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
Yesterday was my first stream using Ableton and it went pretty well! I got Ableton 10 last year and it's been amazing for sketching out ideas. I haven't used it as much as I've wanted so I felt it was time to switch things up a bit on stream. I started out building a DnB groove and then moved over to chords. After I had a sol...
2021-09-09 15:58:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
Yesterday was the first session for September. I'm writing Drum and Bass this month so I got started with some chords and a simple melody. I wrote 3 options and Twitch chat voted on which idea to develop. I moved on to drums, sound selection and a bit of arrangement. After about 3 hours I had the idea you hear above. If you w...
2021-09-03 16:38:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I really want to write some DnB next month. How would you feel about me doing DnB next month and we're back to a full-on Patreon-voted genre for October?
Vote below - if the consensus is "no," I'll post a genre poll Monday morning.
Thanks for your support & have a great weekend!
- Andrew
2021-08-27 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
This week I wanted to write something a little more intense. I started out with a melody and expanded it over 8 bars. I like the melody as it is now, but I think it needs a bit of variation. From there I added more elements: drums, bass, and a few FX. Towards the end of the stream I did a very basic arrangement to end u...
2021-08-26 17:01:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
This week's song started off as a progressive house idea but during stream chat encouraged me to take it in a deep house direction and I'm really happy with how it developed. The overall tone of this is much darker than what I've been writing lately and it's a nice change of pace. This still needs an extended arrangement, lot...
2021-08-19 14:31:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's song did not go well haha. I set out to write something darker, more upbeat, and a lot more intense but this is what came out. The session went well enough and I wrote ... something. But sometimes you come up with good ideas and sometimes you come up with bad ones. Definitely a lot more of the latter here.
That said, there are ...
2021-08-12 16:30:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It's finally here! I'm super pumped to share this song with you. I feel like this is one of the better (best?) songs I've written and it features some amazing vocals by Alex Holmes. MP3, 24-Bit Wave, & artwork are attached - Release ...
2021-08-11 21:40:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Finally finished this one! Well... outside of some small mix/master adjustments before a potential release. This song was originally written on stream last December and I'm really happy with how it came out. MP3, 24-Bit Wave, & Demo Artwork are attached! 2021-08-09 22:19:47 +0000 UTC View Post
This month I'm writing some intense/epic progressive/future house. The first idea I came up with yesterday has a lot of potential and developed really quickly throughout the stream. While each section is relatively basic, the whole song idea is written. If you want to see exactly how it developed, check out 2021-08-05 16:18:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone - this month we're back to writing new ideas! What genre do you want to see me write? Vote below!
2021-08-02 16:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post