Here’s another song I put together using Ellatron HD and Badlion’s Garage Synth on my iPad. Pretty simple and has a few things that I need to change, but as a first draft I like it well enough to share it. The ending vocals were actually a bit of a mistake as I rerecorded a few ideas trying to figure out what would work. Hopefully I’ll be able to expand on this song and add another verse/chorus. I think some added instrumentation might be good too. Just a bunch of synthesized flutes is pretty awesome, but there is room to move forward with it as well.
I put this song together in a similar fashion to my Beard song, coming up with a few sounds and a little melodic hook that I liked first. Once I had that set with the iPad, I added in the singing and the structure of the song. In this song the iPad hook that I came up with originally was at the beginning and a stand alone part with the singing being a different melody. When I wrote Beard, the melody that I figured out on the iPad also became the singing melody as well.
Truth be told, I’m having a hard time getting away from my iPad as I dream up songs and music. It is just too much fun with too many toys and ideas that can be played with at your fingertips. I did go back and find a little finger picking chord progression that I had thought up on my ukulele but done nothing with yet. I tried to work on it the other day and didn’t get very far, but hopefully I’ll have a little something from that soon.