I am not all that versed in music making. My father told me how to hold a guitar. Once. That is as professional as I get in actually putting together melodies, let alone full ballads.
However, I have a small assortment of free music programs and a small casio keyboard (no midi connection cable unfortunately) which I sometimes use to put together small melodies and noisescapes for animations. EXAMPLE (wind is me rubbing the mic, moonsound is a modified organ from caustic)
I also have some experience in splicing together samples to create something. EXAMPLE (King Crimson, Pink Floyd, possibly some QOTSA and/or Uriah Heep)
This may not sound like nothing per se, but for what I have, if it is worth something, putting the droning bits of pink floyd and king crimson music together and hitting buttons and sliders until something sounds neat will not cut it.
I have honestly little idea as to how this will be received as I basically glanced over a couple threads and the rules here and got the impression that it will at least not be the wrong place for something like this, but I wanted to basically dump some lyrics and ask into the void, what the impression of it is.
The first one of the magic race
came down from the skyhold
the third ate the second's heart
the fourth one's in his eyes
the fifth man of the magic race
called two and four back down
the sixth one of the magic race
was he who lead their way
as the seventh of this cursed kind
set out to watch them burn
the eigth, his name was never heard
chose death before his time
the ninth man of the magic race
took memories of what is veiled
the tenth demon, their purpose bound
just looked along in shame
Not really rhyming, I know. I had a ballad-type thing in mind while the first sentence bounced around in my skull and I just have a feeling that it would work despite lacking rhymes.
If you watched the examples I linked earlier, you may realize I am into horror and eldtrith stuff and in terms of music, my top 10 are probably about 10 minutes each, if not way longer.
Ideally, this would be accompanied by an animation of mine, where I would have mundane locations become rotten or broken in some way, possibly related to the numbered demons.
If anyone can tell me if they also can see this become something and possibly lead me to the ideal locations for learning how to proceed, or if someone has decided to contribute with their own ideas (verses, short melodies, whatever really) that would just be absolutely great. As things stand, I am at a roadblock. I do more visual stuff and writing. I have by now likely put 4x the effort into this post, compared to the ballad, so I will leave it at that for now.
Submitted December 23, 2019 at 07:54AM by Rokonuxa https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/eej65k/had_a_simple_melody_and_lyrics_pop_into_my_head/?utm_source=ifttt