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A Memory of Quintessence

by Daymusik

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🐾 Well, this is it. The last song of my 14-day YouTube project thing. It doesn't matter anymore because everything sucked. This song, though, I still quite enjoy. I'm going to try to keep this short but there is quite a bit to talk about. Firstly, the premise of the song wasn't for it to be psytrance at first. If you have a good enough ear, you'll notice (maybe) that the entire piece revolves around a pentatonic scale. This actually isn't that niche in the modern day -- many pop songs actually have melodies that only persist of pentatonic scales. I, however, decided to take it a step further, and each melodic line, each chord progression, each... well, that's about it. But anything that creates pitch ONLY uses a note in the pentatonic scale it's in. No passing chords, no using the scale AS a passing chord; everything IS the pentatonic scale. This idea actually came from the initial melodic line that starts the piece. I was messing around with my keyboard, as keyboardists do, and I realized that these notes, B♭ - F - E♭ - C, sound amazing! Just these four notes are not only fun to play because of the pattern in which you play them, but they also sound good. In trying to see why they sound so good, I realized they made up 4 out of the 5 notes of the E♭ pentatonic scale. Any other time, I would have just dismissed this interesting discovery as quaint, but this time, I actually wanted to roll with it and see what I could create.

🐾 I created this. Making a song restricted to ONLY the pentatonic scale made it sound very... nostalgic? Mystical? Ethereal? Well, whatever it makes you feel, it made me feel like making something psychedelic, and so I decided to try to make psytrance... again. If you follow my channel, you'll hear I hinted at my interest in psytrance at the end of my Super Animal Royale Default Dance remix. This time I wanted to try to make a full song in psytrance. The song turned out weird. And, so, I decided to make it weirder. It doesn't have a regular song format, for one. I decided, at the end of the phrases, to give it a couple of measures in 5/4 to keep with the pentatonic/5 trend. I did a little research on how to psytrance and I tried my best to make it as psychedelic as I could, auditorily and visually. The words came later. You know how in "Reed Rhythm" I said to not question the title? Well, don't question the lyrics here. I literally wanted to add lyrics that would sound...again, "psychedelic" or mystical or...I don't know, like they had some deeper meaning. I don't do drugs, but I bet if you do, these lyrics would make sense.

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Where are we?
Find ourselves.
Where is here?
Where we want it to be.

Where are we?
Find ourselves.
Where is here?
Where we want it to be.

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released January 14, 2023

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Daymusik Las Vegas, Nevada

With FL Studio as my primary Digital Audio Workstation, I create songs varying in genre though usually falling under the EDM super-genre which then is classified as one of its sub-genres.

I enjoy making music as a pastime of mine and people have enjoyed hearing my music, though some financial support is highly welcomed to continue my music career. ... more

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