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Careful what you wish for, they say, because working on this project may have just made me despise this song now.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n \nĆ³Ć“Ć’Ć²[/center]\nšŸ¾ From start to finish, this song was painful. Don't get me wrong, aside from THIS version of it, I might still enjoy listening to this song. The biggest reason why I like this song so much is because of the unique chord progressions. The first two phrases are pretty simple but still appealing to the ear. Once the song pulls you in, however, it tries to keep you in its hypnotic grasp by switching up the key on the third phrase, not just once, but twice! And it's very interesting how it does it as well! Simply put, the melody resides on the fifth note of the scale that it's in. 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I usually try to do research for remixes and covers (mostly to make sure I don't accidentally make something too similar to someone else's, but also) as a way of absorbing inspiration for my own version. Personally, I couldn't find a decent unique version of this song that I thought would help me. A majority of the songs are in jazz or blues or whatever you would expect them to be. I found one version that was kinda different, but it ruined that exquisite chord progression I mentioned and played straight eights, removing the swing. I decided to make it more challenging for myself and left the swing in. The only other versions were people presumably having the same problem of trying to make it sound unique and settled upon making their versions a mashup with some other song.\n\nšŸ¾ Now, that was just one problem. Guys. Please, make sure you're clicking my links, buying my music on Bandcamp, streaming my music on streaming services -- if you don't know, down in my LinkTree link, you can find [most] of the music streaming services my music is available on. FL Studio is amazing; I don't think I will ever change programs. Their lifetime free updates are great... but, with each update, with each improvement to their program, my computer seems to be able to run it less and less. This song took SOO... LONG... to make. WAY too long to make. I don't know how to over-emphasize this to you all enough, something about this song would cause my computer to freeze. Not just FL Studio, but it would freeze my entire computer, mouse and all. I am NOT lying to you, I am not over-exaggerating -- every 2 to 5 minutes of working on this song, the program and/or my computer would freeze for anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds, SOMETIMES MORE! It was so painful to try to do anything because I would listen to a piece of the song and it would be fine, then I see something I need to fix and I try to fix it and it would freeze. Sometimes it would freeze while I'm doing something, sometimes when I'm not doing anything at all! (In the event someone is reading this thinking they can help me, know that I also thought it was every time the program autosaved, so I turned off autosaving and that did nothing for the problem.) I also learned a cool new bug that would happen to me when FL Studio froze while I WAS in the middle of doing something. If I was clicking something, like an automation node or whatever, and it freezes, my mouse is suddenly locked in that position... of editing that whatever it was I was changing. So whatever minuscule, fine-tuning I was trying to do is now gone because I was trying to find where my mouse went and started shaking my mouse only to find that, even though I'm not holding down the mouse button anymore, I'm still editing the thing and now the edit is messed up. *sigh* I almost cried a few times.\n\nšŸ¾ Okay, rant/vent over. This description has gotten way to long. If you're skimming through the description, this paragraph is interesting, I promise. The lyrics. Yes, I tried to come up with my own verses. I recall that the term \"Eskimo\" isn't as acceptable as it was when this song was created. Most modern renditions of this song simply repeat the original lines again. I thought about doing that, but I wanted to change it up. Honestly, I was going to sing the original lines again if I couldn't think of any words because I'm not any good at writing lyrics... as you can clearly see. I came up with some decent lyrics that I was okay with -- mostly the last phrase, wrapping the narrative back to the line \"walking in a winter wonderland\". I tried to modernize it as well. 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šŸ¾ Watch the audio visualizer here: https://youtu.be/rvfjB1SiTmk
šŸ¾ Purchase this song here: https://daymusik.bandcamp.com/track/winter-wonderland
ā–¶ I've always wanted to cover this song. Careful what you wish for, they say, because working on this project may have just made me despise this song now.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
óÓÒò

šŸ¾ From start to finish, this song was painful. Don't get me wrong, aside from THIS version of it, I might still enjoy listening to this song. The biggest reason why I like this song so much is because of the unique chord progressions. The first two phrases are pretty simple but still appealing to the ear. Once the song pulls you in, however, it tries to keep you in its hypnotic grasp by switching up the key on the third phrase, not just once, but twice! And it's very interesting how it does it as well! Simply put, the melody resides on the fifth note of the scale that it's in. When you sing the last couple of lines, "to face unafraid, the plans that we made, walking in a winter wonderland", cleverly, you jump up to the seventh note and walk down the scale all the way down to the tonic note, or first not. Why is this important? Well, for the third phrase, it isn't just a random key change. The key changes to that of the third note of the original scale -- it doesn't stay in the original key and shift up to the third, it's now completely in a different key. Then it does it again jumping up to the fifth note of the original scale. Once this phrase ends, it ends on the root note of this scale... which was the fifth note of the original scale... meaning that, for the fourth phrase, it wraps around perfectly to being the melodic line residing on the fifth note of the original scale! It's ingenious and I love it! Trying to make it sound interesting in anything other than jazz, however, was a challenge. I think it turned out decently, however. I usually try to do research for remixes and covers (mostly to make sure I don't accidentally make something too similar to someone else's, but also) as a way of absorbing inspiration for my own version. Personally, I couldn't find a decent unique version of this song that I thought would help me. A majority of the songs are in jazz or blues or whatever you would expect them to be. I found one version that was kinda different, but it ruined that exquisite chord progression I mentioned and played straight eights, removing the swing. I decided to make it more challenging for myself and left the swing in. The only other versions were people presumably having the same problem of trying to make it sound unique and settled upon making their versions a mashup with some other song.

šŸ¾ Now, that was just one problem. Guys. Please, make sure you're clicking my links, buying my music on Bandcamp, streaming my music on streaming services -- if you don't know, down in my LinkTree link, you can find [most] of the music streaming services my music is available on. FL Studio is amazing; I don't think I will ever change programs. Their lifetime free updates are great... but, with each update, with each improvement to their program, my computer seems to be able to run it less and less. This song took SOO... LONG... to make. WAY too long to make. I don't know how to over-emphasize this to you all enough, something about this song would cause my computer to freeze. Not just FL Studio, but it would freeze my entire computer, mouse and all. I am NOT lying to you, I am not over-exaggerating -- every 2 to 5 minutes of working on this song, the program and/or my computer would freeze for anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds, SOMETIMES MORE! It was so painful to try to do anything because I would listen to a piece of the song and it would be fine, then I see something I need to fix and I try to fix it and it would freeze. Sometimes it would freeze while I'm doing something, sometimes when I'm not doing anything at all! (In the event someone is reading this thinking they can help me, know that I also thought it was every time the program autosaved, so I turned off autosaving and that did nothing for the problem.) I also learned a cool new bug that would happen to me when FL Studio froze while I WAS in the middle of doing something. If I was clicking something, like an automation node or whatever, and it freezes, my mouse is suddenly locked in that position... of editing that whatever it was I was changing. So whatever minuscule, fine-tuning I was trying to do is now gone because I was trying to find where my mouse went and started shaking my mouse only to find that, even though I'm not holding down the mouse button anymore, I'm still editing the thing and now the edit is messed up. *sigh* I almost cried a few times.

šŸ¾ Okay, rant/vent over. This description has gotten way to long. If you're skimming through the description, this paragraph is interesting, I promise. The lyrics. Yes, I tried to come up with my own verses. I recall that the term "Eskimo" isn't as acceptable as it was when this song was created. Most modern renditions of this song simply repeat the original lines again. I thought about doing that, but I wanted to change it up. Honestly, I was going to sing the original lines again if I couldn't think of any words because I'm not any good at writing lyrics... as you can clearly see. I came up with some decent lyrics that I was okay with -- mostly the last phrase, wrapping the narrative back to the line "walking in a winter wonderland". I tried to modernize it as well. I-, eh, whatever.

óÓÒò
 
Lyrics:
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
In the lane, the snow is glistening.
A beautiful sight,
we're happy tonight,
walking in a winter wonderland.
 
Gone away, is the bluebird.
Here to stay, is [a] new bird,
who sings a love song
as we go along
walking in a winter wonderland.
 
In the meadow, we can build a snowman,
and pretend that he is Parson Brown.
He'll say, "Are you married?" We'll say, "No, man.
But, you can do the job when you're in town."
 
Later on, we'll conspire
as we dream by the fire,
to face unafraid
the plans that we made.
walking in a winter wonderland.
 
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
In the lane, the snow is glistening.
A beautiful sight,
we're happy tonight,
walking in a winter wonderland.
 
Gone away, is the bluebird.
Here to stay, is [a] new bird,
who sings a love song
as we go along
walking in a winter wonderland.
 
In the meadow, we can build a snowman
and pretend that he is Parson Brown.
He'll say, "Are you married?" We'll say, "No, man.
But, you can do the job when you're in town."
 
Later on, we'll conspire
as we dream by the fire,
to face unafraid
the plans that we made.
walking in a winter wonderland.
 
Walking in a winter wonderland
Walking in a winter wonderland.
 
In the meadow, we can play in the snow
and we'll have a thrilling snowball fight.
We'll watch as the snow continue to blow
and watch while everywhere gets covered white.
 
Later on, we'll watch TV
while we can't help getting sleepy.
Reminisce on the way
we spent the whole day
walking in a winter wonderland.
Walking in a winter wonderland.
Walking in a winter wonderland.
Walking in a winter wonderland.
 
ā–¶ Bandcamp šŸ¾ https://daymusik.bandcamp.com
ā–¶ MySpace šŸ¾ https://myspace.com/daymusik197
ā–¶ Twitter šŸ¾ https://www.twitter.com/daymusik/
ā–¶ everywhere else šŸ¾ https://linktr.ee/Daymusik


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