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DukeoOoHazrd
I'm a current student at SHSU going for a major in Music Composition. I hope to one day write music for independent films, video games, animes, and also create a few video games of my own. I'm into music, programming, video games,and doing well in school.

Age 31, Male

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Sam Houston State University

Fort Worth, TX

Joined on 9/2/07

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Dear Newgrounds,

Posted by DukeoOoHazrd - April 28th, 2011


Thank you so far for your continued critiques and reviews of my music. I'm actually a bit surprised by the success (so far) of the last two songs I posted, Tribbith Forrest and Room BREAKER #1. Not only am I surprised by the positive feedback I've received even when the length and overall... "complexity" of the songs are quite sparse, but also that I haven't received any comments like "This is all you've done in 3 months???".

To be honest, I've just been extremely busy recently... and even not so recently. To validate my claim I'm actually taking a break from writing an eight page research paper for English to update my cobweb infested News Post page. I also have multiple Saxophone performance-related events happening (one of them tomorrow), along with a few Java files I need to write for my computer science class, a History final I desperately need to make a good grade on, and two composition pieces I need to finish (one of which I need to also start :P).

That's not to say that school is ALL I've been doing. I also have a few video-games that I've been itching to play some more of, a neglected MMORPG character, and a few personal projects that I haven't had any progress in in almost a year!

To be quite honest, I make a LOT of music on FL Sudio 10 (WOOT for the new edition!), but I only post about 25% of it. Most of what I make is cool in a sense, but could sound so much better if I just found the "Perfect Synth" for it. I bet a lot of other musical magicians out there have similar problems though. Another thing is that FL Studio has such a steep learning curve that I'm still boggled at how much I don't know after using it for two years!

My main problem though is keeping focussed on one project at a time. I'm actually not a very patient person when it comes to creation. I'll start something, something that I think sounds epic, but then I get frustrated that I can't make it sound exactly how I want it to. This especially applies if I know the tools that get it to sound a certain way, but I can't seem to figure out HOW to use those tools. I guess I'm just trying to make excuses though, I really need to just man up and spend like two weeks on "FL Studio Training" or something. I have a book about it that I've been reading here and there, but I haven't really done an in-depth all-at-once braincrunch of it.

So here's to education of the musical arts!

DukeoOoHazrd


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To give you all a picture of just how many things I have made over approximately the last two years I just counted how many UNIQUE saves I have in my FL Studio 10 Project's folder...

I have 169 unique saves. (That's not including the different versions and revisions of those unique songs)

That's not to say that ever one of them is worth mentioning... I have a bulk of projects that are just a few seconds long that I doodled down.

But still, that's an average of 1 unique save for every 4 days!