One of my discoveries of 2015 was Christian Löffler who has become one of my favourite electronic musicians. He creates wonderful layering of dark melodies and captures my love of dark techno/house music. I quite often find myself listening to his music on repeat late at night, like right now, at 3:30am... ha! In my last post I shared a sad piano piece I'd been working on. I am still pursuing that project along with a few others but recently I've been going out with my music loving friends to various techno/dance gigs and I've been feeling inspired to...

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Hello! I'm realising it's going to be hard to title each of these posts to sound unique if I post regular content on my progress, oh well. I've been trying to teach myself about chords recently, in particular sus chrods (suspended chords). I've realised how much of an impact these chords can have on adding a sad mood to a melody. I initially set out to attempt my first piece of music using vocals however, I'm still undecided as I'm worried I could ruin the melody I have started to make. Here's a quick recording of my progress...

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Hi This is my first post on my swanky music blog. I started to learn Ableton alongside playing my midi keyboard, electric guitar, acoustic guitar and Ableton Push in 2015. I've been uploading music to Soundcloud for around a year now and thought it would be beneficial to have somewhere to store my thoughts, ideas, inspiration and progress. It could be a cool way for you to discover new music, or see new projects I'm working on. Equally if ever I need to show my process for a university interview or potential collaboration this could help with keeping...

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