Goin' Nowhere by EmKeev
This is a pretty big departure from how I'm used to writing. I used to input every note by hand, which (I think) forced me to be more creative. Garageband lends itself well to loops and to material you can lay down in a couple of measures, then copy and paste. I find its score tool is pretty obnoxious and it hurts that I can't look at the score for multiple tracks. But maybe I'll change my mind as I use it, get used to it, etc.
There are so many many many things in Garageband that I've really never messed with before. With Cakewalk and mixing, I had a very basic handle on how to get certain notes to echo, how to change the volume level for individual tracks... that might've been it. Garageband has all these options and things that I don't even know what they are so I just play with them until I see what it did there. It's fun.
This little thing is repetitive and doesn't really go anywhere, but A) the intention was to mess with the software and B) the first eight bars really capture how the day felt. And for that, I'm glad. Music really expresses stuff I can't get out any other way and I really find that words are words and all but sometimes my sentences are just little prison cells for what I'm actually trying to say. The instrumental is more pure.
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