Aaron Parecki

#100daysofmusic

• 100 Days of Music

  100 Days of Music is a project to write a short 30-90 second song every day for 100 days. My goal is to create something that's "finished" enough to be able to use it as a podcast or video intro song. It doesn't have to be long, but has to sound decent.

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  Wed, Dec 28, 2016 10:05am -08:00 #100daysofmusic #music

• Day 86 - Imperial

  Day 86. I'm not sure a major key was right for this one or if I should have done it in a minor key instead. I mostly wanted to work on getting the orchestra to accent certain beats. The horn melody fills in the rest.

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  Thu, Mar 16, 2017 3:29pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 85 - Suit

  Day 85. This went in a whole different direction than I thought it would when I started. I originally started with the first piano notes, and then somehow ended up building it up to a jazzy rhythm. It's not perfect, I think the velocities of the trumpet part could be tweaked some more, but you get the idea. I do like how the piano solo is joined by the drum fill at the end.

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  Wed, Mar 15, 2017 9:13pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 84 - Winning

  Day 84. This is a fun horn fanfare that resolves with a full orchestra. It took a while to get the horn accents right. During the last phrase I had to slow down the middle of it slightly for it to sound right. I also like the solo violin part that peeks out of the sound.

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  Tue, Mar 14, 2017 5:28pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 83 - Inspection

  Day 83. I think this accurately reflects my mood today. This actually started with me accidentally hitting a few notes on the piano, and I just went from there. This is one of the few times that I can't actually tell you what all the chords and harmonies are, because I just kept layering things on top that sounded good. This one also needed some percussion beyond the Logic Pro drummers. It's a combination of some manual drum track entry plus the Logic drummer.

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  Mon, Mar 13, 2017 10:16pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 82 - Tense

  Day 82. Today I knew I wanted to start with the pulsing notes that got gradually faster. I jotted that down, then later decided to turn it into something that would be at the end of a scene of a TV show with a dramatic build-up and lack of resolution.

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  Sun, Mar 12, 2017 8:13pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 81 - Daylight

  Day 81. Quick and easy one today. Piano, bass, french horns and percussion.

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  Sat, Mar 11, 2017 11:01am -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 80 - Jupiter

  Day 80. This one is inspired by the style of Juno Reactor. There are a bunch of layers of percussion, all written manually. A light bongo track is on the 16th notes, with some accented beats. There's a simple synth bass+snare, plus a few other hits. This was a fun one! Tho it may have been fun just cause I wasn't trying to finish before going to bed like the last couple.

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  Fri, Mar 10, 2017 1:21pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 79 - Faders

  Day 79. I felt like going with a guitar+bass+drum track today. The middle section needed some filling out in the mid-range frequencies, so I added some faint horns and another guitar part in the middle. I think it could still sound warmer, but wasn't sure how to get there. I spent a while getting the drums right on this one, I felt like it needed a few more accents beyond what the Logic Drummers provided.

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  Thu, Mar 9, 2017 10:17pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 78 - Why Markets Matter

  Day 78. A few weeks ago, I asked my friend Mike Merrill (the world's first publicly traded person) to send me some audio samples of him reading some money-related words. He sent back a 10-minute long file audio. I sliced it up into individual words, and created a Logic Pro instrument from it. (You can actually buy the 83 samples here: http://kmikeym.myshopify.com/products/audio-of-mike-merrill-speaking-financial-terms) It took a while, but I finally had some inspiration for what kind of song I wanted to make from these. So here you go!

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  Wed, Mar 8, 2017 9:43pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 77 - Wind

  Day 77. Just a quick mostly piano song, I feel a little bad that the other instruments feel kinda forced on top.

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  Tue, Mar 7, 2017 5:23pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 76 - Music Box

  Day 76. This is an oddly detuned music box. I was actually trying to find a more gentle music box sound but this is all I could find. I tweaked the EQ a bit to remove some of the lower "boomier" part of the sound, but it's still not as gentle as I wanted. In addition to the music box shifting in and out of tune, the other parts intentionally don't quite line up on the beat, and the reverb on the piano and violin is cranked up really high, so this whole thing should end up feeling slightly unsettling.

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  Mon, Mar 6, 2017 10:16pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 75 - Dark

  Day 75. I used more complex samples than I normally like to, as a shortcut to build up this much sound. (I didn't get started until really late today and needed to do something quickly). I added a few of my own instruments on top though, and tried to give it some shape other than just what came with the original sounds. I kind of want this one to keep going for a while longer!

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  Sun, Mar 5, 2017 9:15pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 74 - Amaretto

  Day 74. I started with the piano and layered stuff over it until I felt "done". There's a 4-part choir, a solo violin, and 6 french horns. The video is me recording the piano track, I liked that the two parts overlapped but never actually hit any of the same notes.

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  Sat, Mar 4, 2017 10:07pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 73 - Detuned

  Day 73. The piano track here goes a 1/4 step in and out of tune very slowly throughout the song. I wanted to try out a new instrument today, and I found the Dilruba, an Indian stringed instrument, which has some nice articulations in the samples.

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  Fri, Mar 3, 2017 12:24pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 72 - GLORIOUS MIDI POOP

  Day 72. Enjoy a pile of poop emoji made out of music notes. 💩 Inspired by Andrew Huang's GLORIOUS MIDI UNICORN, I thought I would give this MIDI art thing a try. If you're listening to this in the podcast feed, it might make more sense if you watch the video instead ;-)

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  Thu, Mar 2, 2017 1:53pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
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  I love a good mashup: Daft Punk vs The Office #100DaysOfMusic • Aaron Parecki (@aaronpk) https://aaronparecki.com/2017/01/02/12/day13

  Portland, Oregon

  Wed, Mar 1, 2017 5:40pm -08:00 (liked on Wed, Mar 1, 2017 7:01pm -08:00) #100DaysOfMusic

• Day 71 - Fanfare

  Day 71. A quick sketch of a triumphant fanfare. Could probably use some more filling out in the lower end of the spectrum, but I'm trying to finish these quicker lately!

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  Wed, Mar 1, 2017 3:27pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 70 - Finale

  Day 70. This didn't quite come out the way I wanted, I think all the chord hits might need more filling out with additional instruments. I had fun piecing together video effects to go along with the music though!

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  Tue, Feb 28, 2017 3:15pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic

• Day 69 - Timeless

  Day 69. Today's song is basically in no time signature, and features the electric cello again. It's a simple theme that I developed by flipping the notes and playing through it in a few different chords. There's a faint harp sound that helps provide context, and there's a soft droning soundscape under everything.

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  Mon, Feb 27, 2017 4:23pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic
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  Day 68. I was determined to do something in under 30 minutes today. Decided to do something ethereal and mostly on the same tone to help make that easier. As weird as this is, I actually kind of like it.

  

  Portland, Oregon

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  Sun, Feb 26, 2017 10:17pm -08:00 #100daysofmusic