So Since My PC Crashed I Havent Been Able To Work On Any Music. I Was Going Through My Drop Box And Found

So since my PC crashed I haven’t been able to work on any music. I was going through my drop box and found my very first draft demo of a battle network recording I was working on. It’s pretty bad 😂 i try to get my ideas out as much as possible. Having ADHD I’ve got a million ideas at once.

(Christian M. Swanson) DONE! (sorta) I initially wanted to re-do the entire middle piece’s solo. I got kinda lazy, I always knew how I wanted it to end but was never sure on what the rest should be. There is about 20 different versions of it on my PC. I want to work on the other songs I’ve been recording but I wanted to release something too. To be honest, this was done a day after I uploaded the teaser. Any way, hope you enjoy it, I’ll work on the solo later I promise but I want to work on other things.Also, if I ever get around to it, I’ll draw my own image representing this track. (I’ve already got an idea in mind) A neat tidbit. I’m playing a left handed bass (I’m right handed) also the into riff has a bit of tapped harmonics in it. You may also notice the drums are a bit different, that’s also my doing

So, I wanted to show you all the different ideas i had for the color scheme... i was always going to do the black and gold but the green on the helmet kinda stuck out to me... so i ended up making a few different versions.  the first was just changing the helmet colors to match the chest plates.. i think the x5 sprite did that. next i wanted to see what it would look like with the classic colors (but kept the gold joints, maybe il make them black) the next 3 ideas were to make the x on his chest a gem the first of these 3 ideas i got from xs back in command mission the other two are just gren and red gem type things.  finally the last two were never intended to be released but i really wanted to see what x would look like in the classic colors. the only difference is the collar. A) Green Gem B) Red Gem C) No gem just glowing through yellow (like command mission) D) I felt the green on his helmet kinda stood out so I tried to use the same color of his chest plate. I think X5 did that with his sprite. E) Tried to go a bit more classic color scheme but kept the Gold Joints. F) Classic color scheme, black joints and collar G) Changed the collar to match the chest plate BONUS!! decided to VERY QUICKLY color X with the official X8 Colors, thought you guys might enjoy that, hope you do. do you think i made the right choice?

Red Lotus+ Been playing a lot of Command Mission lately and I forgot how cool the red lotus looked, so I just added it to the old drawing i did. I made the flame look more like the saber colors in the official artwork, plus Blue flames! XD Sorry for the deviantArt colors. I lost my original YEARS ago and so now all I have is the dA version to work off of. :(

Shout out to my bff don for such a sick cover.. If you guys haven’t heard of him check out more songs on his YouTube

While working on the X for my zero i would stop and record parts for a thing here and there. I’ve been working on a lot of video game covers lately. I used a tap harmonic technique for the lead. I may upload a video on how i do it.