Somber is supposed to be like sad or something right I dunno man. I just googled the meaning and tried my best.

I think this was one of the first times where I experimented with effects other than reverb on my SNES style songs. I forget exactly what I used but it's delay and maybe a teeny tiny bit of chorus using FL Studio's default plugins.

Actually I wanna say that I don't really understand why people would go out of their way to buy 3rd party plugins for effects. I'm no audio engineer so I probably don't have the ear for it but I feel that FL Studio's default is good enough already. I think part of my thought process is just "durr I can't afford it" so I don't even bother with the possibility.

I'm a really big sucker for 7th chords and extensions and you can kinda hear that in here. The moment I learned that "if I add the 9th to the chord it makes it sound like a JRPG", every neuron in my brain lit up and re-wired itself to change how I compose from that point onwards. It actually feels like a bad habit because I rely on the sound of the extension too much. I've been trying to get back into normal triad harmony and simplify but I just can't quite grasp it yet.

Listening to this track again makes me feel really insecure for some reason. It's like 3 or 4 instruments playing very sparsely and I feel like there isn't much going on to keep the listeners interest. On the other end of the spectrum once I start adding a bunch of instruments then I feel that I've diluted the track and lost cohesion. I'm never happy with too little or too much. If I try to go somewhere in the middle I enter limbo deciding whether I should add or subtract.

There's always this voice in the back of my head no matter what telling me that my decisions will always be wrong when it comes to this stuff but somehow I would pull through. I want the music to shape itself free from my own goblins if that makes sense. Lately though I feel like that's not the case anymore.