nelward

what im working on

Album is done and i am now working on the music video for the first single. Its definitely the most ambitious video I have made yet. I am learning a lot of new techniques to bring this one to fruition. first album single will release alongside the music video, probably some time in April (sorry for the wait folks!)

from there, I will slow drip many of the songs from the album as singles, because thats what you do these days. dont worry, the majority of the album will be unheard until r...

january 2026 stems

CANDY | TRIPPIN ON A HOLE IN THE SKY

wow. i did this for an entire year! OK. We are going to do one stem a month from here on out. These days most DAWs come with AI stem splitters anyway (but mine is better)

rain of stars demo

hey friends, rain of stars is out now everywhere. linktr.ee/nelward

here is the demo version that I sent to the band ahead of recording it w them! much slower than the final version.

dec 2025 stems

ATHLETE | MINUS WORLD. enjoy.

LINKS TO THE REWARDS!

Welcome to nelward patreon! Here are links to quick access for rewards.

$1 and up

Patron only discord channel (you have to use the same email on here that you use for discord): https://discord.gg/DqmDF8cvkr
Chord charts: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nelward-chord-143363104
Live band footage: 2025-11-16 21:58:53 +0000 UTC View Post

nelward chord charts!

added Sadboi, Thrifty pete, and Christmas Boyz. The specific rhythm of the chords is not indicated.

Other charts from the previous zip:

All the way in --> eat your dreams
Apple shampoo
Cosmic Relief
Drugs
Fashion
Lydia

Never Wanna Fall In Love With U
Realife
Sleepwalk
Sum of All Our Sirens
The Runaround

this year's release plans

I have one more single scheduled this year. it is unrelated to my upcoming album. Its called "rain of stars" and it is a guitar driven track with live drums and bass from Jordan and Curtis (live band guys). It will release in the second week of December.

Discord help

Some loyal patrons have shared how they got it to work.

Discord access!

subscribers of my patreon now get special access to a "patrons only" discord channel within my discord server.

link here: https://discord.gg/CGFXErMF9b

link for the specific patron only channel: https://discord.gg/DqmDF8cvkr

November 2025 stems

SEASONS | SING FOR U

October stems

BACK ALLEY BEAT | MY BRAIN IS MADE OF CANDY | NEW JACK STOMP | U WILL KNOW MY NAME


OK! got 4 stem packs for you this month. From here on out, we are going to release 2 stem packs a month. enjoy

as usual, requests are accepted!

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first mixdown of my album is complete. runtime: 34 minutes. when will it release? definitely not this year.

say hypothetically.....

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say hypothetically i release a track with this art that is coming out on dec 5. what are your first impressions?

September Stem Pack

DO I IMPRESS YOU | STRAWMAN | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE KONG

Strawman was exported a long time ago and does not contain the drum stems. everything else is there, tho

next month I will compress all of my monthly packs into an additional 30 stem pack. I will then move down to 2 new stems a month.

progress

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after an unanticipated amount of holdups, my album is finally ready to enter the mixing phase. this is a huge load off my back. when will it come out? not this year. I'm going to try to pitch it to la...

nelward five cover art

yeehaw. aiming for a mid September release.

track listing:

1. Drugs
2. Oh, Tommy!
3. cocoon
4. do i impress you?
5. EASY DOES IT
6. GUT STUFF
7. monkey moves
8. all honesty
9. sunshowers
10. track zero

there will not be nelward six any time soon. the idea after this is to change up my approach a bit.

Its the longest of the nelward compilations yet, clocking in at almost 35 minutes. nelward three is 31 minutes.

do i impress you? teaser vid

full song going up on all platforms at midnight!

this song has an intro that sounds like another song for the first 15 seconds or so. the intro purposefully sounds stupid. it has stomps and claps in it. at the time I made it I thought to myself "this might be an outdated reference" but at the current moment, the #1 song on top 40 has stomps and claps. should be an interesting experiment to see who has a very short attention span and doesnt make it past the first 15 seconds.

press photos!

we had a photoshoot the other day, and it dawned on me this was my first time getting proper press photos done. much more where this came from, but here are the fully processed photos we've got so far! some are just of me, some are of the band. Jordan Young did the photos. he's awesome

August stem pack

POTS & PANS | COCOON | SEASIDE THEME There's one part of the xylophone trills in the beginning of seaside theme missing but the rest sh

POTS & PANS | COCOON | SEASIDE THEME

There's one part of the xylophone trills in the beginning of seaside theme missing but the rest should be there. Older songs might have a bit of jank with trying to recover them for stem packs (seaside theme is 11 years old)

let me impress you teaser vid

dont say the nelward patreon never did anything for ya

nelward live band footage

dont say the nelward patreon doesn't have its benefits...

this is an unlisted video we will be sending to venues. the plan is to start playing in big neighboring cities, and unfortunately I live in the abyss of the southeastern United States so my options are more limited. Atlanta is a cool city though.

https://youtu.be/R0KQ5eluPJ0

the show was a tremendous success which is a huge relief. to be honest, I ...

nelward July stem pack (sorry so late)

MONKEY MOVES | WINE BY THE FIREPLACE | NYAKUZA MANHOLES | MY BALLOON this month has been insane, sorry for the delay. threw in an extra to

MONKEY MOVES | WINE BY THE FIREPLACE | NYAKUZA MANHOLES | MY BALLOON

this month has been insane, sorry for the delay. threw in an extra to make up for the wait. I intend on getting the August stems on August 1. requests accepted!

Stems aren't ready yet

It's been a bad week. Cat is sick. Will have them asap. I expect to export them tomorrow but that's contingent upon new crises not emerging

stems gonna be late this month

im busy, will get to it! still taking requests

what I'm working on

I got back from my tour last summer and got to work on new music soon after. as usual the songs were intended as a loose set of singles, but as I continued working I realized they worked well as a new EP. fast forward a couple months and the length ended up going past that of an EP.

So I've decided this will be my first proper "full length" album. Mondo zone, nelward 1-4 don't really count as they are compilations of songs that were released on an individual basis not ...

live band footage

posting tomorrow woo

"Thrifty Pete's Dirt Cheap Deals Can't Be Beat" chord chart.

chord chart.

nelward June stem pack

RASPBERRY PIE | GETTING BETTER | SMASH THRU

request next month's in the comments!

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