Prance and Beat1 - 8 Bit, Arranged

Prance, 01:08 Beat1, 01:12 Click on CDs to Play. Please let me know how you like them.

Double Feature Tonight! "Prance" was the first piece I ever composed completely without a piano. I used a casio keyboard to test out the chord structure and directly built the tune on-screen in Musician I. I really enjoy this tune, and wish I'd been able to make it longer. I later made a version of this in CakeWalk, a MIDI sequencer, but I don't actually like that version as much. "Beat1" was my very first experiment with percussion. I was trying to figure out how to make drums sound good, and had no idea where to go to. This is what I came up with. It sounds neat, but it is quite repetitive, with the exception of the thumping drum sound. The loop lasts for only a little over a minute, and does have an actual finish to it (doesn't just fade out), but I probably should have had it loop for about thirty seconds less.