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It's been a long time!  I used to frequent this forum in my 20s, now I'm 42 years old, living abroad, haven't really written any music in the last decade, but I never fully gave up on writing music.  It's time to fix my writer's block.  I'm setting up this topic as a challenge to myself.  Writing music in my 20s was something that came very slowly and painfully as I am a massive perfectionist and not terribly disciplined.  So this plan is designed to cure me of that.

- Only writing fragments for now.  No aiming for completed pieces.
- Focusing on practicing use of musical elements I like, experimentation over destination.
- Loosely tracking my time in order to force something out the door, rather than get stuck on revisions.
- Long term learning goal is to build the skills to write hybrid electronic/orchestral music for games.

If anyone wants to take on this challenge with me, feel free, and you are welcome to post things here.  For my part, the pacing is starting at one small post per week.  As I feel able, I may increase that.  Music will be hosted on flat.io and eventually Soundcloud, and linked here by Sunday evening USA-Eastern time, which is Monday morning my time.  Feedback is welcomed, but I will be trying to take feedback lightly and focus on quantity of music creation, on volume, rather than refining the quality.

 

First entry: https://flat.io/score/69930d12f4b7f4206442ca2c-sus-slash?sharingKey=4f68cd0e43730c91e48416b8978810ab0c63680a3161fb07fbfcbc75e85c135b02a6f15102ff10978621f147508f16a2ade8791783c86664bb7ed9f0e3b671f9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14lZ2g_oCxI

For this eight-bar melody, I chose the musical element described in the above youtube video - suspended chords above a slash bass note, essentially sparsely voiced tall chords.  I wasn't following any particular progression principles, just whatever sounded good, but trying to follow the structure of the chords described in the video.  Couldn't quite nail down the last chord, sorry it's unsatisfying, but according to the rules we are moving on!

 

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