100 Days of Music by Aaron Parecki
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100 Days of Music by Aaron Parecki
Follow as I write 100 short songs in 100 days. Each song is an experiment in some aspect of writing music, and is usually between 20-90 seconds long.
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Day 100 - Century
Day 100. As you can probably imagine, I was spending a lot of energy trying to figure out what to do for my 100th day. I had considered a few options,...
Day 99 - Penultimate
Day 99. Almost done. I had fun with the pizzicato strings in this one. The pizzicato cello and the snare drum hold down the rhythm, and I have a few d...
Day 98 - Mushrooms
Day 98. Another multiple-layer piano track. Each piano has a different effect applied. Echo, reverbs, EQ to emphasize specific frequencies.
Day 97 - Unknown
Day 97. Further proving the theory that when I don't have a plan for the day, I end up finishing way sooner than I thought, today's song took less tha...
Day 96 - Sunrise
Day 96. I always seem to spend a lot more time on these when there's a specific sound I'm going for. This one turned out to take way more layers than...
Day 95 - Travel
Day 95. I wanted to try something in a medieval style, so this is a quick sketch mostly experimenting with the instrumentation of it.
Day 94 - Windows
Day 94. I didn't have a great plan for this today. There's a lot of sounds going on here, but I tried to make a few of the highlights stand out. I thi...
Day 93 - Signal
Day 93. I didn't end up finishing today's song before going to the studio for my last class, so I had to finish it here. I ended up doing something pr...
Day 92 - Bloom
Day 92. This is maybe a little more wander-y than I wanted, I wasn't expecting to bring in the orchestra in the middle until after I had started. I or...
Day 91 - Green
Day 91. I don't know why I'm on such a piano kick lately. This one was kind of fun because it's more notes than can be played with two hands, but does...
Day 90 - Sixpence
Day 90. The final stretch! Didn't know what I was going to do today, so again I started by playing around on the piano until I hit something that I c...
Day 89 - Double
Day 89. This is all one take on the piano, with only a little tweaking of the timing and loudness of some notes. I was planning on adding some other i...
Day 88 - Reunion
Day 88. Another fun five-part piano piece. Each piano is panned slightly off-center. Some of them are a 2 bar loop, others do slight variations of the...
Day 87 - Tryst
Day 87. Today was the first day in a while that I started a song by playing the piano for an hour before writing anything down. Once I knew what I was...
Day 86 - Imperial
Day 86. I'm not sure a major key was right for this one or if I should have done it in a minor key instead. I mostly wanted to work on getting the orc...
Day 85 - Suit
Day 85. This went in a whole different direction than I thought it would when I started. I originally started with the first piano notes, and then som...
Day 84 - Winning
Day 84. This is a fun horn fanfare that resolves with a full orchestra. It took a while to get the horn accents right. During the last phrase I had to...
Day 83 - Inspection
Day 83. I think this accurately reflects my mood today. This actually started with me accidentally hitting a few notes on the piano, and I just went f...
Day 82 - Tense
Day 82. Today I knew I wanted to start with the pulsing notes that got gradually faster. I jotted that down, then later decided to turn it into someth...
Day 81 - Daylight
Day 81. Quick and easy one today. Piano, bass, french horns and percussion.
Day 80 - Jupiter
Day 80. This one is inspired by the style of Juno Reactor. There are a bunch of layers of percussion, all written manually. A light bongo track is on...
Day 79 - Faders
Day 79. I felt like going with a guitar+bass+drum track today. The middle section needed some filling out in the mid-range frequencies, so I added som...
Day 78 - Why Markets Matter
Day 78. A few weeks ago, I asked my friend Mike Merrill (the world's first publicly traded person) to send me some audio samples of him reading some m...
Day 77 - Wind
Day 77. Just a quick mostly piano song, I feel a little bad that the other instruments feel kinda forced on top.
Day 76 - Music Box
Day 76. This is an oddly detuned music box. I was actually trying to find a more gentle music box sound but this is all I could find. I tweaked the EQ...
Day 75 - Dark
Day 75. I used more complex samples than I normally like to, as a shortcut to build up this much sound. (I didn't get started until really late today...
Day 74 - Amaretto
Day 74. I started with the piano and layered stuff over it until I felt "done". There's a 4-part choir, a solo violin, and 6 french horns. The video i...
Day 73 - Detuned
Day 73. The piano track here goes a 1/4 step in and out of tune very slowly throughout the song. I wanted to try out a new instrument today, and I fou...
Day 72 - GLORIOUS MIDI POOP
Day 72. Enjoy a pile of poop emoji made out of music notes. Inspired by Andrew Huang's GLORIOUS MIDI UNICORN, I thought I would give this MIDI art t...
Day 71 - Fanfare
Day 71. A quick sketch of a triumphant fanfare. Could probably use some more filling out in the lower end of the spectrum, but I'm trying to finish th...
Day 70 - Finale
Day 70. This didn't quite come out the way I wanted, I think all the chord hits might need more filling out with additional instruments. I had fun pie...
Day 69 - Timeless
Day 69. Today's song is basically in no time signature, and features the electric cello again. It's a simple theme that I developed by flipping the no...
Day 68 - Bulletproof
Day 68. I was determined to do something in under 30 minutes today. Decided to do something ethereal and mostly on the same tone to help make that eas...
Day 67 - Whine
Day 67. I'm not super thrilled with this, but I have a bunch of other things I need to do today so I need to be finished. I like the opening bit with...
Day 66 - Sweep
Day 66. Tried two new things today. First time attempting something in the "electro swing" style. I have a long ways to go to even approach sounding l...
Day 65 - Distance
Day 65. I decided to keep it simple with this one, only adding the little chimes on top of the piano and no other instruments. I used a strong wet rev...
Day 64 - Esplanade
Day 64. There was a brief moment of sun today, so I took the opportunity to go on a bike ride up and down the esplanade! This song has nothing to do w...
Day 63 - Build
Day 63. Got a late start on this again today. I was going for another super short "audio logo" style thing today. I made a totally different style vid...
Day 62 - Pipes
Day 62. I spent most of the day on other projects, so wanted to do a simple song today. The video is my other project I worked on! I ran all the tubin...
Day 61 - Rush
Day 61. I wanted to try writing something really short that was still a distinctive sound that makes you feel like you're in a new place. I got the id...