{"id":174,"date":"2021-05-09T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2021-11-10T22:12:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T22:12:54","slug":"my-first-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rve\" data-content-width=\"750\"><iframe title=\"Rise by Nishad Prinja (Lyrics)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S395HSra0us?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!-- Responsive Video Embeds plugin by www.kevinleary.net --><\/p>\n<p>This is the first song that I wrote and produced on my own.<\/p>\n<p>The organ was the basis for the song, but then I wanted to record the soundscape of outside my house at night and blend it in with the music. I found an electronic drum and played a beat on my keyboard that I liked to play on repeat with the organ.<\/p>\n<p>I played around with bell sounds on the keyboard a lot writing various parts. I wanted the song to evolve, but from the perspective of what was happening on top of the track, not the drum beat and organ backing the track. So I kept writing various parts on the keyboard with different bell sounds on the track.<\/p>\n<p>The main lead part switches from one bell sound to another midway through the song. At the end of the song, a magical star shower sound is created with another bell sound and running my hand down the keys of the keyboard. I developed an ethic very early on to make everything sound organic, so I played each part in one take as perfectly as I could. That&#8217;s something I would continue to do in future songs.<\/p>\n<p>That ethos of making things sound organic made recording vocals very challenging for me. I had lots of noise from my family at home, so I had to ask for privacy. I was constantly scratching out lyrics and rewriting things if for any reason, then it was because what I was singing didn&#8217;t fit the beat. I was glad with the outcome, and I learned a lot with the process.<\/p>\n<p>My grandpa loved this song a lot. When I showed it to him he said it reminded him of a white tiger roaming around the forest at night, as if the lyrics were written about this tiger.<\/p>\n<p>Since then I&#8217;ve basically decided that this is what the song is all about. And I keep this song in tribute to my grandpa. Love you grandpa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">This is the first song that I wrote and produced on my own. The organ was the basis for the song, but then I wanted to record the soundscape of outside my house at night and blend it in with the music. 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