That's a lot!
This is a completely ridiculous mashup of 73 ideas I cherry picked from the 1000+ files I have sitting around, consisting mostly of more recent ones.
00:00 - idea819
00:33 - idea805
00:55 - idea814
01:12 - idea835
01:39 - idea892
01:52 - idea855
01:57 - idea862
02:18 - idea893
02:31 - idea903
02:38 - idea837
03:01 - idea795
03:19 - idea904
03:41 - idea828
04:02 - idea860
04:23 - idea831
04:40 - idea905
04:57 - idea901
05:27 - idea784
05:55 - idea839_MASTER
06:22 - idea861
06:48 - idea848
07:05 - idea796
07:09 - idea828
07:36 - idea802
07:51 - idea891
08:02 - idea869
08:14 - idea875
08:29 - idea849
08:35 - idea866
09:00 - idea888
09:08 - idea898
09:18 - idea850
09:38 - idea841
10:05 - idea847
10:20 - idea878
10:46 - idea886
10:56 - idea829
11:02 - idea821
11:17 - idea822
11:34 - idea776
11:52 - idea895
12:06 - idea897
12:23 - idea851
12:42 - idea762
12:58 - idea857
13:08 - idea818
13:20 - idea787
13:27 - idea846
13:34 - idea827
13:47 - idea788
13:57 - idea843
14:10 - idea790
14:25 - idea760
14:53 - idea793
15:04 - idea797
15:11 - idea761
15:27 - idea801
15:41 - idea752
15:52 - idea737
16:13 - idea730
16:32 - idea712
16:50 - idea751
17:21 - idea692
17:40 - idea743
17:54 - idea656
18:10 - idea735
19:10 - idea578
19:22 - idea511
19:28 - idea714
19:51 - idea652
20:26 - idea512
20:47 - idea418
21:30 - idea496
That's a lot!
The song at 13:57 - idea843 sounded amazing, i would love to hear this in full version
I really like the variety in instruments and how they're used. There is plenty of inspiration for me in this mashup. Thxbro!
I wrote up a list of all my favorite ideas, then the browser crashed. :|
Wow, that's a lot of partial songs, I need an army of Erik McClures to complete them all (I need an army of me to do all of the things I want to do as well). All of the fragments sound like the beginnings of something awesome. A literal army of one would be absurdly useful...
One reason you can't finish these is because they are all basically the same idea. I wasn't counting and I didn't listen to the whole thing but a large number are the same exact vi-IV-V progression, and more are some variant of I-IV-V-vi. Come on bro, you're a great musician but you need to push your chord progressions in more interesting ways or you'll just end up stagnating on all your ideas like you are here. (The same thing has happened to me.)
Why not start with some nice jazz chords? Here's a fun progression: Fmaj7-emm7-dmaj7-cmaj7 (mm7 = minor major 7, maj7= major seventh chord).
Other suggestion is you have way too much reverb on your stuff.
It doesn't make a lot of sense for me to qualitatively assess a bunch of tiny ideas, but any of them sound interesting enough to expand into a whole song.
You really shouldn't ever do technical critique on an idea. A lot of them are clipping horribly or have other serious production errors. They're just ideas. I use excessive reverb in my ideas because it substitutes atmosphere and helps me imagine what they should sound like. The reverb is dropped later.
The thing with the chord progression has been a constant thorn in my side, because I often try to come up with different chord progressions, but then can't figure out how to make them into songs. The problem is usually the opposite - I don't know how to make a song with wildly different chord progressions. The songs I usually do end up making very, very often end up being variations on the same chord progression.
The problem I almost always run into is that I have difficulty coming up with melodies for unusual chord progressions. I'm sure the answer to this is "well then get better". Oh sure, I'd love to, if I had all the time in the world. Naturally, I don't. It's hard to motivate myself to work on music when I know I can't make a living off of it and i'm pretty much only doing it for my own amusement.
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