"Haunted Basketball", by jegasus (Weekly Beats 2024 - Week 47)

Well hello there, music making comrades!
First of all, thank you so much for your kind comments on last week's submission! You've all been incredibly kind even though the song had such harsh sounding instruments - especially that beginning.
Anyways, moving to this week! I'm super happy how this one came out!!! After submitting last week's tune, I started a bunch of different projects and got kinda far in them but none actually felt like they had enough "meat" on them. I was starting to get worried I wasn't going to have anything on hand for this one.
I think I started the sketch of this submission on Thursday or Friday night, and it started with just one of the little melodies. I felt it sounded a teeny bit medieval, so that's what I named the file, saved it and went to bed. Yesterday night (also in bed) I spent some more time with this and was able to flesh it out quite a bit, but it ended up losing its medieval edge and just became rather dancy. It still felt like it was missing something, so I added a fun kick drum and cranked its volume all the way up. The kick drum ended up a little distorted and sounded like a basket ball bouncing on the ground. I then added the tinkly degraded piano, which made the the second half sound spooky and haunted. Finally, I threw in a one more section which ended up being my absolute favorite - the part around 1:40. I thought "well, I've played the entire melody so far on key, why not play some off notes?" and it paid off SO DAMN NICELY... I am in love with that little section.
As usual, all made on the Dirtywave M8 Tracker, and it tells me I've worked on this for about 3h15m. Most of the sounds were created using WAVSYNTH, one of the internal synth engines, the only exceptions being the kick drum and the piano notes, both of which are sample-based.
I look forward to listening to what y'all have been up to!!! Wait... It feels weird to say that I look forward to listening to something. Irgh... I know that's how you're supposed to say it, but it feels strange every single time I do so.
Anyways, byyyeeeee!!!!
CHEERS!!!!