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3 Backing Tracks! 2 Originals and a Cover (Tabs for Reel Em' in coming next week!)

Jam away, lads! 

Two covers this week! [Free Early Downloads here for both!]

Here are the two xenoblade rock/metal covers done by me and "Gabocarina96"! They were a lot of fun to arrange and record. I hope you enjoy! 

How To: Make a Jazzy Boss Theme (Phase 2)

This is probably my second/third favorite thing I've written this year. I've been inspired by my own game idea recently (rather than other soundtracks) which has lead to much more personal and original tracks. I'm so glad I get to share this with people who are genuinely interested in what I have to make. I hope you enjoyed this one too!

This Week's Plans + Future Plans

We're continuing the pattern of originals and covers! This week will be...well..1.5 covers. I decided to cover a song from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 again (because it really helps to play around with a soundtrack that has influenced you so much in the past). This time, I'm collaborating on it with a familiar fellow, Gabocarina96 (who is also known for his share of Xenoblade covers). The kicker here is that he's ALSO uploading a Xenoblade 2 cover on his channel, featuring me. For my cover, we went f...

This Week's Song [Free Early Download] (2nd Favorite song this year!)

This is a special one. Mixed and Mastered by ya boi Sixteen in Mono. I hope you enjoy! 

New Milestone Ideas? (Looking for suggestions!)

Hey, guys! Your support has been insane lately. Thank you all so much for everything. The channel is able to grow naturally and improve at a steady rate thanks to you guys. Because we passed the $300 milestone, I'll be able to send more songs out (old and new) for mixing and mastering, which obviously leads to better sound quality overall.

That being said: The other milestones aren't quite as thought out as the previous ones and I would like to get rid of some of them. So whil...

This Week's Song [Rough Demo Version]

Here's a very rough (and quiet) demo of this week's song. Hopefully it gives you the initial idea of what I'm going for! 

Plans for this week

This is the week, friends. The week I upload a new favorite. I'll be posting a small demo shortly after this post. It's a very rough mix for now, but I'm going to see if Sixteen in Mono can handle this one. If it all works out, it might end up being one of my favorite songs this year. I haven't decided on a title yet, but it might just be "How To: Make a Jazzy Boss Battle Theme (Phase 2)" for YouTube algorithm reasons. It's a bit of a culmination of all the techniques I learned from the past "Ja...

How To: Make a Boss Dungeon Theme

An incredibly fun song to make, mainly because it was for my video game idea. I made 95% of it in a free program (SQ8L) which was a pretty fun challenge. I know it was a little different from the guitar-style songs, but that was the point. I want to show you guys all of the other styles I'm capable of. I'm excited to show you much more! 

This Week's Cover [Free Early Download]

Here it be. Such a fun song for such a fun boss fight

Tab Poll (October 2018) Get in here, friends

I added an extra favorite song of mine, seeing as I took a week off last month. Vote for the song you would want tabs for! 

This Week's Plans + Updates!

Hello, my friends! I am here to give you the scoop on things. I'll go ahead and make this one short and to the point!

- Welcome, new Patrons! If you're at $5+ and haven't been added to the drive yet, you can expect an invitation sent to your email very soon! (If you don't get one by the end of the week, contact me and I'll fix it ASAP)

- Continuing with the back and forth between originals and covers, this week will be a rock/metal cover of "Chaos King" from Deltarune. Yep. Not done with...

This Week's Song...Maybe (Demo Download)

Due to a close family member making frequent long visits to the hospital, among other personal life things, I didn't have time to work on a song until...today (it's currently 8:30 a.m and I still need to sleep). After I wake up, I'm going to try and finish this song and make a video for it. But if I can't do it or find a replacement, I'm just going to take a break this week, despite it being harmful for the channel. If this happens, you won't be charged for anything. I figured I'd give you guys ...

New Song Idea [Rough Demo Download. Let me know what you think!]

The writer's block is slowly trying to inch it's way in, but I've had some motivation to make more music for my game idea recently. This is incredibly rough and it might not sound anywhere near the final product, but here's a small taste nonetheless. Without going into much detail, just imagine somewhere that's barren and destroyed. And ignore the name. Just some random nonsense, as usual :'D 

This Week's Cover [Free Early Download]

I was going to take a break this week, but I decided to have a little fun and cover a song from a little game called "Delta Rune". If you watch video game covers on youtube, you might have seen a few things from this game already. Toby Fox really is a huge inspiration to me though. By covering this song and listening to the others, it really helps me add more to my own tracks, as well as inspire me to create better things down the road (and compose for video games of course). I hope you enjoy!&n...

How To: Make a Eurobeat Song

This was such a strange one to do, but it was incredibly fun to change things up! Special thanks to Sixteen in Mono for making it sound the way it does. I hope you all enjoyed it! 

Small Tab update coming tonight!

I realized I didn't add labels for song sections, plus I want to try and stretch out the guitar pro files a little more so the tabs are less cluttered-looking. It should be up by tonight! 

"Deep Breath" [GUITAR TABS]

Here they are! If you don't have Guitar Pro 5 or 6, I recommend you download a free program called "Tux Guitar". It can play .gp5 files and the tabs will look a lot cleaner then the PDF. Guitar Pro has a weird habit of squishing some of the tabs together (unless I'm doing something wrong), so I posted 2 types of PDFs to make everything easier to understand (if you don't feel like getting tux guitar). Rock on! 

How To: Make a Groovy Boss Battle Theme

I just couldn't stop the groovy/jazzy phase. This one was another absolute joy to work on. Bit of a late post, but I hope you guys enjoyed it! Stay tuned for tomorrow's vid! 

This Week's Song [Free Early Download]

Here it is. Mixed and Mastered by Sixteen in Mono for that sweet sweet quality. I'm so happy with how this song came out, seeing as it was my first attempt at the genre (ironic that I'm making a How-To video). This is all thanks to you guys. Thank you for helping the music on this channel achieve greater quality.

P.S Mono took the liberty of adding some small guitar rhythm parts here and there to spice the song up more. As a result, I offered to have him in the video playing his parts. SO I su...

Plans for this week (Update)

I ended up being inspired to make a new song. Funny how that works sometimes! It's my first attempt, but I went for a Eurobeat-style song (think: Running in the 90's, Deja Vu, etc). So get ready to drift with me this Saturday, because we have some fast melodies in both synth and guitar form to work with. A little refresher from the rest of the content! 

This Week's Song [Demo]

In a sudden turn of events, I decided to make a Eurobeat-style song. I'm going to see if I can get Sixteen in Mono to mix/master this one (seeing as our new Patreon milestone allows me to do so more often). If he can't do it, I'll finalize the song by later today. I hope you enjoy!

Plans for this week + tab update

Hey, guys! No specific date, but the tabs will still be done for this month (and this month's poll will also go up around the same time).

As for the song this week....I'm not too sure. The musician's block is returning and I've honestly spent days and countless hours trying to come up with something. I do have a bunch of songs on the back burner for this kind of occasion though. But as some of you know, that's kind of the curse of an artist. You make a bunch of ideas, but you're always trying ...

Plans for this week (+ other stuff)

So for this week, it's very likely that I'll be taking a break. If so, I'll probably do a mini Q&A on the channel. You guys won't be charged for this. If I decide to cut the break short, I might do a cover of the JoJo part 5 opening theme.

As for videos in the future, there are a few I'm thinking about. I have more battle themes, as well as area themes (non-guitar songs), I have How To: Anime (Season 5), and I have some metal songs. I also want to try some Big Band and Jazz stuff in the fu...

How To: Make a Melodic Punk Song

Last week's video was a blast to make. A refreshing little break from the jazzy/groovy stuff (which I am still loving btw). I hope you guys enjoyed this track as well! 

This Week's Song (Backing Track)

This Week's Song [Free Download]

Here it is! I hope you enjoy.

This Week's Song (Rough Mix) (Full Version coming later today!)

So the plan was to take a break this week because I'm at that point again where one is needed to keep the creativity flowing. But somehow, I came up with this song near the end of the week. I've been learning how to incorporate the funky/jazzy techniques more, and this track probably makes the best use of it. Just some notes about this rough version:

- It's missing orchestra/strings. You might notice the first part after the intro sounds a bit empty. There will be a string/brass melody with mo...

This Week's Song (Backing Track)

This Week's Song (Free Early Download)

Here it is! Get ready from some s p e e d (kinda)