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Last night I made my first ever solo track! Well, kind of. I was entering a music competition at this site I frequent. The idea was to make a silly one minute song that was related to the site in some way.

I'm not claiming that what I made was any good, but I did learn a lot. I also (re)discovered the wonderful world of SIDs. Some (crazy) geeks have collected a whole load of Commodore 64 music into a format that can be played by PCs. With a bit of searching you can find and download songs from pretty much any C64 game you can remember! If you are as old as me that is...

It was good fun anyway. I had to learn a lot about making loops and using samples. I don't claim to be an expert but it's amazing what you can do with a bit of music software and a PC these days, it's also amazing how much free stuff is available. Loops and samples, all kinds of stuff. There is a lot that says it's free but is really there for you to buy but a bit of digging can unearth some great treasures. Then I realised I might as well make my own loops 'cause what's out there wasn't what I wanted anyway.

So now I need to get my amp back from Rob's house so I can start adding guitar to my own tracks in the same way.