{"id":104,"date":"2014-12-31T19:02:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T19:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thotoharangeto.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2021-11-08T22:54:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:54:22","slug":"rockabye-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Rockabye Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"rve\" data-content-width=\"750\"><iframe title=\"Rockabye Baby, a lullaby song\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/it_qRJqwW5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><!-- Responsive Video Embeds plugin by www.kevinleary.net --><\/p>\n<p>This song is dedicated to my nephew. I took care of him a lot as a baby and I always wanted to write a lullaby, so this was my chance to do that, and to show my nephew how much I care about him.<\/p>\n<p>As I remember, this took 6 months to complete, and it was a struggle because initially I didn&#8217;t know what I was doing at all. It didn&#8217;t actually occur to me that this song could be a lullaby until I meditated on the synth chords and I felt it going in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>The drums came first and I played them using MIDI and with an MPC 1000 as a drum controller. I played the drums with my fingers and I got the natural feel I wanted, and I focused on finding a synth part to work together with it. This is where things got messy. I tried things and thought they worked, but they didn&#8217;t, and I decided to throw away everything and start again. Rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I found a synth pad part I really liked, and I stuck with it, and it made me feel like writing a lullaby. I recorded the guitar plucks to add some character to the track, and then I felt like the song needed something bombastic. I searched a lot and found a heavy bass sound and tried it out. The song had its form, it just needed something special, so I added a sample from Rainbow Road in Mario Kart 64 and EQ&#8217;d it to blend it into the track.<\/p>\n<p>This all sounds like it happened linearly, but it was very scatterbrained. It took me a while to write the lyrics and get the tune down and sing it to my satisfaction on the track. Mixing the song was also a task, but I just tried to trust my ear and pay no matter to anything else.<\/p>\n<p>My nephew loves NASA and outer space things, which is why the video has footage of rockets and outer space. The other video footage is just supposed to bring up lullaby-like feelings. I hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">This song is dedicated to my nephew. I took care of him a lot as a baby and I always wanted to write a lullaby, so this was my chance to do that, and to show my nephew how much I care about him. As I remember, this took 6 months to complete, and it was a struggle because initially&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=104\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133,"url":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=133","url_meta":{"origin":104,"position":0},"title":"Around the Corner (Happyness)","date":"April 27, 2021","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YFVZ3Vyu1UM This is probably the best song I've wrote and the one I worked the hardest on. My dad brought home an electric-acoustic guitar, and oddly it was a Fender. 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