I started trying my hand at composing music in 2008. Primarily I am working with FL Studio and playing all my tunes by keyboard before editing. It can be a slow process at times. It's a bit of a setback that I don't actually know how to play any instruments, but I've gradually been getting the hang of it.
 Wanderstruck | Wanderstruck Just a short, simple, admittedly repetitive tune that's been stuck in my head this past week. Makes me think of traveling or exploring the world a lot, as well as the anticipation and hopes that come with it. The first half gives you the sense of the initial dream and disappointment that comes with reality; the second half is the light at the end of the tunnel.
Lots of fr... »FL Studio, East West, Maximus |
 Winter Driftly (Piano) | Winter Driftly (Piano) Last improvisational piece I played in March, some light cleaning up of pauses but otherwise unedited. More experimentation wtih chords different from what I usually play.
Also available on Newgrounds.com »Piano, FL Studio, East West |
 Bipolar Christmas (Piano) | Bipolar Christmas (Piano) Another improvisational piece I played in March, no edits besides cleaning up some pauses or misplayed keys here and there. Some inspiration in the opening from Blake Robinson's Christmas songs before going into melodies from my own songs.
At the time I just figured out how to switch between keys while playing and couldn't help randomly transitioning between Christmas and Halloween... »Piano, FL Studio, East West |
 Badder Lucker (Piano) | Badder Lucker (Piano) Some improvisational playing I did back in March, no major edits besides cleaning up some pauses or misplayed keys here and there. Just playing around in a new Halloween-sounding key I figured out. Opened with a rehash of one of my first songs Bad Lucker before introducing a lot of other old melodies as well.
Also available on Newgrounds.com... »Piano, FL Studio, East West |
 Softly Cheerful Museum | Softly Cheerful Museum Attempting a remix of a song by a similar name (and probably less grammatically incorrect - "Soft Museum (Cheering Version)"). This is my first time attempting a serious remix that's not just piano. I've been really empty on ideas lately, so hopefully this gets me moving a bit again. Plus I like the song and have always wondered how they do some of the melodies, so it's a nice learning experi... »Piano, FL Studio, East West, Edirol Orchestral, Maximus |
 Theme de La Cite des Enfants Perdus (Piano Cover) | Theme de La Cite des Enfants Perdus (Piano Cover) This is just a light piano cover of Theme de La Cite des Enfants Perdus by Angelo Badalamenti. The original is a string arrangement and also a bit longer. Of course, this one is nowhere near as nice as the original, but I haven't heard it in piano before and got around to playing it.
Someone who actually plays piano can probably arrange this much better though... »Piano, FL Studio, East West |
 Dusty (Piano) | Dusty (Piano) Just a short improvisational piece I put together this afternoon. Seems to be another one of those so-bored-I-got-inspired pieces, and the moodiness of it probably shows. That doesn't really make for good inspiration but it's better than none I suppose.
It's short I admit, but I didn't want to force a longer melody either. Thought I might as well share in ca... »Piano, FL Studio, East West |
 Darkerly Stormy | Darkerly Stormy I've been wanting to remake this song for a long time... or at least the climax of it.
The Edirol VST I used in the original Darker Stormy just wasn't strong enough for the climax to me. However, it took me a long time to find higher quality samples (mostly East West) that would match the overall sound I wanted to keep from the original.
The new song here essentially starts w... »Piano, FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5 |
 Dilo's Shun | Dilo's Shun Not one of my better pieces but it's been sitting in my work folder for 2 years and I couldn't think of anything to build off it. I still like it but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere and there's that feel that something's missing.
This is one of the quirkier songs in a while. Had it in my head for a while since Thanksgiving 2011 but didn't really have time to work on it ti... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral, East West |
 Feltip Leaf | Feltip Leaf Short melody I've had stuck in my head for a long time. Put it down in notes back in September 2011 but never really got around to orchestrating it much.
Only recently figured out how to play it with chords on the piano but not sure how to bring it out more (it's just the main melody with few supporting themes). The intro is also pretty boring - not sure how to improve t... »Piano, FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5 |
 Nightfall | Nightfall Seems like I'm getting some inspiration back. Thought of this one while sitting bored and hungry during discussion section a couple weeks back. Forgot the song for a while before I could come up with a draft of it.
It seems like a mix of "Trickling Winds" and "Raindrops". However, this deviates a lot from the style of my older songs; most obvious is the more heavy use of choirs and percus... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5 |
 Ntohnignses (Piano) | Ntohnignses (Piano) More improvisation in the new key I figured out how to play. Just emptying my thoughts here so there are probably quite a few tempo issues or off-notes. Was considering cleaning up the notes a bit but I decided I rather like the way it's laid out already.
Lately I've only been able to work on music when I'm extremely bored, but then I have a midterm coming up in a few days - so t... »Piano, FL Studio, East West |
 Thousand Keyes (Piano Cover) | Thousand Keyes (Piano Cover) Just playing around with a new major/minor key I'm becoming familiar with and managed to improv my way into playing this song. It's not mine and is a cover of a song that already exists under a similar name. Thought it was nice enough to keep even though there are obvious playing "typos" (is that the word?) here and there. »Piano, FL Studio, East West, Adobe Photoshop CS5 |
 Reminiscence (Piano) | Reminiscence (Piano) Just some piano improvisation - new key I found I was able to play while just messing around. I think this is the same key as "Blue Calm" but obviously I never tried much variation in that song.
Lots of old motifs from previous songs mixed in as well, namely the Cloudless series - we'll see where this goes. Just laying down ideas for now.
Also available on Newgrounds.com... »Piano, FL Studio, East West |
 Island in the Rain | Island in the Rain Oddly enough it wasn't raining when I first got this song stuck in my head. I seem to get the most ideas when exams and projects are coming my way; unfortunately I had to postpone this song quite a bit as a result of being much busier lately. I've been working on this since October but in actuality probably only put about a few days' work into it.
I had more in mind for... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral, East West |
 Cloudlessly | Cloudlessly Based on one of my older songs "Cloudless" and effectively orchestrating the piano solo spin-offs from it "Cloudful" and "Cloudfully". Lots of changes and variations on the main melody after playing it improvisationally a lot over the last couple years. I wouldn't really call this from a remake - if you listen to the original, you'll realize it's far from the origina... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Cloudfully (Piano) | Cloudfully (Piano) So I keep coming back to my older song Cloudless... The key is just really easy for me to improvise on the spot with I guess. I've managed to build on the melody a lot more than the last variation I made on it (Cloudful). This is just a quick recording of me playing it on the spot so I don't forget later, meaning it's very much just a draft. I'm hoping to make it an orche... »Piano, FL Studio, Steinberg Grand 2 |
 Trickling Winds | Trickling Winds Experimenting with drums for the first time. I had the main melody down okay but had trouble thinking up a background melody support it (strings, etc). Originally I had more ideas for this but got busy and haven't messed with it for months now. Someone might find it useful as a buildup theme or something - I don't know.
Song can actually form a perfect loop if... »Piano, FL Studio, East West |
 Sparkle | Sparkle Another song I started way back more than a year ago. It's modestly upbeat; some say it's similar to Cloudless but I think this one's a little more casual and simplistic in melody.
The beginning is quite close to how I wanted it to sound; it's also the first time I've messed with effects a bit so that was fun. The rest of the song more or less was thought out in chunks. &nb... »Piano, FL Studio, East West, Steinberg Grand 2 |
 Fraying Strands (Piano) | Fraying Strands (Piano) Another one of the songs I stopped working on a long time ago but picked up again recently, this one from January 2011. I woke up with the beginning of the song in my head and eventually played out the rest once I got comfortable with the key signature of the song. There was supposed to be a violin playing by itself somewhere in the song, but I've forgotten where I wanted it. I guess I'm leaving... »Piano, FL Studio, Steinberg Grand 2 |
 Cloudful (Piano) | Cloudful (Piano) Just piano and no editing or other instruments - improvisation that started off similar to one of my older songs Cloudless but gradually just became a mix of whatever I could play in the same key. There are a lot of random transitions and misplayed keys, but eh - just something I made quickly.
And yes, I know the left hand never changes. I've never taken piano lessons,... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Darker Stormy | Darker Stormy This is a Halloween song I actually started in October 2009 but never came back to (it was only a minute long then). It's probably the most procrastination-afflicted song I've worked on so far, due to weeks and months where there was virtually no progress. At least I managed at least finish in time for this year's Halloween though.
The song itself is probably one of my more com... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Poison Cherries | Poison Cherries Video and song I made for a class project on Cherry Blossoms. The instructor wanted a video that demonstrated how "scary" cherry blossom trees were.
The eyes are made in After Effects and then attached to footage of real Cherry Blossoms. The song doesn't match the video being played because the original video contained copyrighted material for the class.
The song too... »Adobe After Effects CS4, Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Raindrops | Raindrops As the title suggests, think of rain when you hear this song. Think of rain in all its forms (drizzling, shower, storm, hail...) and then think of the sun when it begins to emerge. The initial idea was for the piano to represent rain and the flute as either life in general or the sun (just something counter to the chaos), but it's really up to interpretation. I ju... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Cloudless | Cloudless First time spending any real effort in orchestrating a song. There's a lot more variation than in my usual songs (a complete opposite to the lackluster "Blue Calm" song I made a few weeks earlier), and I actually bothered to play it at a constant tempo/beat this time... I should probably should start doing that for all my songs from now on anyways.
Sadly, it's not a Halloween/... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Blue Calm | Blue Calm I had this tune stuck in my head while walking back from class a few days back. The visual I somewhat saw as I was making this was mostly rain and then the ocean. It seemed calm and the water looked blue, so that's where the name came from. It's bad, I know.
I originally spent about 2 hours playing this out just to put out ideas before I forget them. &... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Open Doors | Open Doors Something I put together in a couple hours. Was going to let it sit so I get more ideas, but they never came. Sadly never looked back on this song so I just decided to wrap it up.
However, it does form a perfect loop. »Piano, FL Studio |
 Bad Lucker (Orchestral) | Bad Lucker (Orchestral) An orchestral version of Bad Lucker (Piano) - hopefully other instruments should add more dimension to the song. Everything is played by keyboard in separate layers. The piano I am satisfied with, but I'm not really sure how the other instruments are fitting in. First time trying anything really serious and to this scale - suggestions welcome!
Used in my clu... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Bad Lucker (Piano) | Bad Lucker (Piano) Initially something I made up randomly back in April 2008. Trying to clean up the song a bit. No editing - Played live on keyboard (as if everything else isn't? Some people don't think so)
Planning to add orchestra background to it later. Some people told me they prefer just the piano though.
Using the final product for a video I'm working on for Halloween »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Drifting | Drifting Played the main tune by accident... and then spent an hour playing random stuff, trying to find a background that matches it as well as the rest of the song. Took only a few minutes to play the two parts together and render it though.
Song is so simple it forms a perfect loop. ^_^ Maybe I'll expand it later, though probably not any time soon.
Also available at ... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 No More Days | No More Days Continuation of "Another Day".
Hit a bit of a creative stump; can't figure out how to transition between parts of the song and the ending - so it may seem a bit abrupt at times. Most of the tunes were played through on keyboard in one run - I think I may have messed up a few times here and there. I probably will remake this song if I ever get the chance.
Also available... »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Another Day | Another Day Incomplete song. Not sure how else to continue it so I'm leaving it as is for now... maybe it works as it is.
Also available at Newgrounds.com »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |
 Torment | Torment Yay! Finally played something half-decent. Actually I played this by accident.. and just went along with it.
But I like it - sounds nice.
Also available at Newgrounds.com »Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral |