Flascoe - pillow song
Channel: Flascoe
Date: 2022-02-20

i have made this song you lsiten now

oh my god I'm so happy that I finished this song.

the way this went down was that the song itself didn't take that long. the file that I made the song in was originally an acoustic guitar song that is entirely different from this one and written during winter break when my computer's gpu was broken and I was bored.

then, my friend told me he was making an album and that I could make a song on it. I was going to use the guitar song and I told him that I had something ready and that I would make the whole song as soon as I had my computer back. when I got it back, I didn't like where the song was going, and I was randomly messing around with a synth sound to put in it.

the main chord riff of this song is for sure the most important part, and I wrote it a very long time ago. I think it was during a jam with my friend when I was improvising. I believe there's a file somewhere on my computer of a joke lofi hip hop song I made using this riff but in C major and with improvisation that I sent to my friend.

the riff has existed for a long time and I've played it on different pianos and keyboards whenever I remembered that it existed, because it's pretty fun. I remember specifically playing it on one of my school's upright pianos after school while my friend was there.

the key of this song fluctuated so much over the different versions. the first was in C, then I normally played it in A, I played it in Db a little bit, and it ends here in D because I thought that's where the tone of the synth sounded best, and I needed the riff to sound as good as possible because it's the heart of the whole song.

once I had gone through all of the steps of making the song, I sent it to my friend. the problem was that I had sent him a random joke song that I threw together in thirty minutes a few days before I sent him this. he had misinterpreted me and thought the other song was the one for the album. he had already uploaded the album and was getting ready to publish it, so there was no way to put this song on there.

I was okay with that, because it didn't really matter to me what he put on so long as it was something that he wanted. now I had a song that I actually liked, after dozens and dozens of start up songs that I've made since high jump that have never flourished into anything, and I had no use for it.

I thought my computer was fixed. I was wholly convinced that it was. my computer was not fixed and it crashed a billion times. frequently it would lock into crashing on startup like ten times in a row, to the point where there was nothing I could do. but making a song that I had liked made me want to make a video for it, or do anything at all.

the way my failing gpu functions is that it will crash within ten minutes of running the proper drivers. if I uninstall the drivers and let windows do its thing with boring vanilla drivers, my computer has a chance at running. but hitfilm express does not, because you need your card's supported drivers to run it.

knowing this, one day, I installed the drivers and got lucky, because my computer did not crash for hours. I was able to make changes to the song, edit the end, and make the entire video while alternating with doing bio homework on one weekend day.

making this song took me a lot of hours, but the video was way worse. I really enjoyed editing the video because it's so weird and unusual for my style, but the export had audio slightly distorted only in the last 10 seconds, so I downloaded several different editors for hours trying to get an export with okay audio. also, the entire time making the song I was playing musical RAM sticks with my computer's side off.

but it's finished now so I don't care

time for song: 4 hours??
time for video: 9 hours??????