my blog!!

it feels like forever since my last site update! i think this is the first time i went over a month without updating the site :0 i've been more busy than usual with the wedding & honeymoon planning, but it's all exciting! here's my some songs i've worked on in the meantime!

first is the latest song i'm working on, maybe my favorite so far? i'll definitely have to make it longer! second is a one i recorded several months ago and idk what to do to it or how to finish it so i thought i'd just add it here now :P and last is a quick improvisation on classical guitar!

new songs! I recently hacked my 3DS and downloaded Korg DSN12, and it's been suprisingly really versatile for making music! it's basically a MS-10 synth with a basic DAW, but it works really well with the touchpad. 'Ship Channel' is my first song on Korg DSN12, and the other two songs are made in garageband with a midi keyboard~

finally a new song diary! I wanted to record these songs last month, but I had my mic packed already for the move :P I've been playing more classical guitar lately and playing around with chords rather than trying to produce fully layered songs. The first song is basically 3 parts of other songs i wrote put together, the second one is recreated from a voice memo i recorded a year ago, and the last one is inspired by animal crossing music~

I made more songs! I'm going to try to do one of these each month since I've been on a streak for the last five months :P I'm playing guitar, bass, and midi drums in these songs. The first one's probably my favorite, and I think it would be really well suited for vocals with some small changes. I recorded most the second song in mid 2024, but I added the last bit recently to finish the song. It's way heavier than I usually ever play, but I came up with it as I was playing around with garageband's pedal effects and glide guitar technique. Not sure if I love or hate it, but it was fun to make lol. I made the third song most recently; I recorded the acoustic guitar part, and improvised over it on electric during new years.

I never know what to name these, and I never think about it until I'm about to upload them. Maybe I'll think of names for them later and update it :P

More songs! Besides the 3rd song on bass, these are songs i wrote playing guitar in open G tuning~ I first tried out open chord tunings earlier this year, and I've been switching to it here and there since - it's a lot of fun! Sometimes i get stuck figuring out new things to play and switching tunings will help me think of new songs, and this tuning is especially easy to write songs with imo. i found out about it from slack key guitarists, but I found guitarists from a bunch of genres that use it when i looked it up. Enjoy!

Another song diary :P i've been playing guitar so much the past few months! I was looking for preset drum patterns since creating drum beats is so boring, and i found that the yamaha dd-55 has a bunch of cool muzak sounding preset patterns & songs. I was playing along with them and thought it’d be fun to record and make a full song out of - so i did! the first two songs here are me playing guitar(& some keyboard leads) to patterns & songs from the drum machine and the third song is a new song idea i came up with on classical guitar~

New song diary! these are all WIP songs i wrote around 2017-2018 and since I likely won’t finish any of these, I thought i might as well record them for a song diary! During this time, I was first getting into jazz guitar and was usually creating rhythm guitar parts to have friends solo over, so most these songs are mainly just chord progressions with fingerstyle arpeggios.

I had also bought my first midi keyboard during this time and I created a bunch of small songs as I was figuring things out. The song “ringtone (jazz)” is meant to sound like a preloaded jazz ringtone on a flip phone. I also created the “hip-hop (instrumental)” around the same time with my midi keyboard. not much to say about that one, but i love the drums, especially in the later half of the song :P

Lately I’ve been playing guitar a lot but not creating as much original stuff. I’ve been playing with another guitarist/drummer & vocalist/guitarist, and i’ve been more focused on learning new songs to play together~ I also finally got a mic stand that should allow me to record my classical guitar! I’m more confident in my skills playing classical over electric, so I’m excited to share it once I have some stuff ready!

I've haven't updated my site too much over the past few weeks since I've been playing guitar more, and I thought of an idea to share some of the music I've been playing! I usually don't record too much of my music or try to make full effort songs(i'm terrible at drums!!), but i'm always coming up with new things to play. What I'll be including in these "song diaries" is that, quick song ideas I've come up with! Most of these will be really minimal & more of a starting idea for songs rather than fully ready demos. I usualy take tons of takes which makes me not want to record as much too, so I'm keeping these down to two takes and accepting the small mistakes rather than taking a billion takes.

here's the first song diary, a bunch jeith originals on solo guitar :P i've been liking the direction my music has been taking, but i'm always wanting to change it up~

I originally wrote "buzzy bee(returning home)" on ukelele, and figured out how to play it on guitar later on. I think it sounds better on guitar but it's definitely harder play than it is on ukelele! The most recent song here is "sleeping" - I came up with this a month or so ago, and i'm hoping to add more to it to make it a full song. I hope you all like the music & i'll be including more of these as I come up with more song ideas!