attempted a 2 minute arrangement following haterade (aka 'soundsgoodrecs' on youtube) arrangement advice of blocking out a track in advance and then moving patterns in roughly where you think they should go and listening to it and tweaking it. kind of like working on a 2 minute loop instead of working on a track...

i was listening to the david guetta bebe rexha song 'blue' the other day so i had blocked out that it would start immediately with a 'drop' (weak version of drop) then go straight into a buildup. this ended up not happening, but blocking everything out over 2 minutes (just putting tags where i thought intro/buildup/drops would start) really helped.

and i wanted to make something in phrygian dominant scale. phrygian dominant scale was recommended to me about a year ago by CHAT GPT. it was a scale id tried before. but after id been telling chat gpt the scales i did like, it recommended phrygian dominant. and i had tried it before, but i tried it again and ive really enjoyed it ever since. dont ever ask chat gpt for music theory things though, it is really very weak on anything to do with music theory in general... it mixes up basic musical key notation very easily, a weird blindspot it seems to have about musical theory in general(???) not that i know very much music theory myself, but it will mix up things a 5 year old wouldnt mix up, weird errors.

anyway i really enjoyed attempting to make an arrangement in phrygian dominant, last time i was arranging i had been getting bored of minor scale so maybe ill try work in it for a while. although i can never really predict what ill enjoy working on.

and this was a sort of 'drop' section. the rest of the arrangement basically fell apart at some point but it was pretty good practice