atari2600land's Blog - A Gift of Song

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A month or so ago you may have remembered my musical composition I'm making called "My Butt Hurts Part 3". Well, I finished that. In case you've forgotten, all three parts of My Butt Hurts together equal about 47 minutes of music, each clocking in at around 15 minutes. Part 3, which you can download in MIDI form here is 15:56. I was going to give this as a Christmas gift to my sister and dad. Some song parts have been floating around in my head for the past years, while others have been newly composed. At about the 8:26 mark when that part begins, I experimented with the different percussion instruments the MIDI format had to offer. I really experimented with it at about 13:50, which I feel gave that part a Mexican flavor, so I named that part "Let's Eat Tacos". Not very often you hear a Hammond Organ in a Mexican musical composition. The finale is a mixture of parts of two songs I put together. I used a website to convert the MIDI files to MP3s so I...

 

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