Failure, fighting, and insecurity and turning them into positive art are a way to struggle against our demons and share them with the world. Viktor Frankl states that this is a way to turn our suffering in life into something meaningful. If others can relate, empathize, and share in that meaning we create powerful waves that ripple affecting more than we can currently comprehend.
A girl I’d liked suggested I listen to it, what I found was I was swept away by beautiful melodies. The lyrics painted a beautiful picture as the soft sounds of tropical house made me feel like I was at a summer party relaxing. Being a fan of melodic dubstep, guitar, trap, and hardstyle I decided to put my own twist on the track.
Well this song has been stuck in my head for awhile, so I decided to do a cover of it, the original track can be found below. Sadly the artist felt overwhelmed and began taking all his songs offline. You can find an archive of their tracks here as well.
Scotty Splash is the name of the person who did the instrumental, and although it’s a solid track all by itself I did make some changes. The original starts off with muted piano chords, most likely a like a rhodes that has been filtered. Being a fan of guitar I layered the same chords that the piano plays and added an EQ to make sure that the guitar stayed in the higher end of the spectrum.
Here’s what it sounds like all together
The leads in the original track are a combination of a softer sounding lead akin to a harp, piano, or bell. The second lead has a sharper tone to it more akin to a guitar, it’s a very sharp pluck sound with a rapid decay. The two leads go throughout the track, setting up a beautiful melody and counter melody. The timing creates an ambient space, a sense of longing, and sadness that I can relate to.
The leads combined sound like this.
I’ll be writing a Part 2 soon that will cover the bass, drums, and break of the song.
Having been played on my favorite radio station frequently in my youth this song is close to my heart. With lyrics that match my current status of being young, naive, and anxious about life I had to make a remix of it. Again this is a bootleg so I had to reinforce the recognizable piano melody with my own piano VST. I tried so hard to capture that hard drop bass/synth sound that MiTiS uses in his latest ‘Til The End Album.
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