This project was gonna get curated on 1/19/17 by @-Splattered- but because that was the same day I got featured they didn't curate this. which is understandable ;) Read me first. Hey guys! KH16 here. I just wanted to say happy, almost winter...? (Technically it starts on December 21st) to everyone xD I find winter to be such a wonderful time of year. It brings so much joy into my heart. And even though it doesn't snow where I live and I don't really celebrate Christmas, I still love it. I love the icy cold weather, the lights that dazzle and sparkle the streets, everything about winter is so wonderful to me. Which inspired me to create this song. So every year, our choir has this thing called Winter Concert where each choir, (6th Grade boys, 6th Grade Girls, Intermediate Men, Intermediate Treble (Women), Advanced Treble (Women) each perform a song or two. This year, the concert's on December 7th. I'm in Advanced, so our group gets to do the most songs. This is one of them. The concert was LIT (We had it on December 6th actually). There were like 6 soloist people and everyone was so awesome! Each one of the groups had to a song that had dancing, so that was very entertaining. Anyways, for the first time in my life, I copied an entire song, including the piano part, into noteblocks using sheet music. (I used my choir sheet music obviously) The piano part of this song is pretty easy tho (Unlike the other songs I've done lol) But I had a wonderful time doing so. I saw things in the song that I'd never saw before, the little notes that make the song a lot better. This took me about 20 days to make btw (including my day-to-day activities) and also the longest noteblock song I've ever created myself. Project without lag: https://phosphorus.github.io/#128610570 If you'd like to hear an IRL recording of the song: http://www.jwpepper.com/10067588.item#.WDR97fkrLIU (This is NOT my choir btw. I just found this off the internet k.) The sheet music it gives you on this website is pretty glitched since it's missing like 3 pages of the song xD Also, for this song, I'm singing the Alto part. I'm naturally a low singer. Every time I try to sing a high note I sound like a dying pig xD Lyrics: (Make sure to follow the words with the Choir insturment NOT THE PIANO) Now, when the garden awaits the return of spring Now, when the silence is deep and blue Now, when the winter has cast her spell again Beautiful December, Beautiful December Here, where the snow is as soft as a wooly lamb Here, where the nightfall is deep and blue Here, where the stars are so bright you reach for them Beautiful December, Beautiful December Child, may you sleep in gentle peace tonight Dream of songs that rise on silken wings When you wake, enchanted by the snow spun light Sing the songs that came to you in dreams, your Beautiful December dreams Now, when the garden awaits the return of spring (now, when the garden awaits the return of spring) Now when the silence is deep and blue (deep and blue) Now, when the winter has cast her spell again Beautiful December (Beautiful December), Beautiful December (Beautiful December) Beautiful December Oooooh
Read me second. HOLY CRAP I'VE BEEN ON THIS SITE FOR A YEAR?!?! That's right kiddies! Ya boi KH16 been on the site for 358/2 + 7 extra days of hanging out in a data projection of Twilight Town with Hayner, Pence, and Olette trying to find the Seven Wonders of Twlight Town only to find out that I don't even really exist. (God that Kingdom Hearts reference tho... xD) Seriously, I went from this piece of trash https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/92775062/ TO THIS. THIS COMPLICATED PROJECT THAT TOOK ME LIKE A MONTH TO CREATE. I mean, just think, if my friend from science class had never shown me this website for the sake to be able to listen to mp3s on our school laptops, where would I be right now? Would I still be watching anime and playing Kingdom Hearts 24/7? Would I be as advanced I am in music as I am now? Yes and no. I'd still be watching anime and playing Kingdom Hearts 24/7, but without Scratch, I'd NEVER be as advanced in music as I am now. Noteblocks taught me a lot about the very essence of music itself. I found it fascinating I was able to create songs out of code and numbers, and I still enjoy to this day. Scratch also taught me a lot about myself too. Before Scratch, I didn't consider myself a "useful" person, or a person with any meaning in this world. You could almost say I was depressed, but it wasn't sadness, it was loneliness. I had friends, really good ones that were amazing, but I didn't have anyone who had the same interests as me, and if I did, then it would be something I only kind of liked, such as YouTube videos or a type of anime. But I was almost blessed to have found this website. When I first joined, the only I had on my profile for the past week was 3 projects, each one a picture I made off of Microsoft Paint. My profile pic was a gif of Axel from Kingdom Hearts. I started to enter a lot of CCs, since in real life I was good at shading, but not drawing... (Ironic, right?) It felt satisfying coloring something well when you know you suck at drawing. I also respected the fact that people NEVER wanted their art recolored unless it was a CC. I tried to picture myself as the artist, and I'd also get mad if someone recolored my work, so I followed the golden rule, "Treat people the way you want to be treated." I think it was around March 2016 I started getting a little bit of popularity, since most of my CC's weren't just "oH FILL THE COLOR WITH THE BUCKET!" but it had actual shading and stuff. And then, after about 5 months, I had 100 followers That number stook with me. It was a special number that I kept. The fact the 100 people had checked out my profile was just insane. I made my first noteblock project then to celebrate 100 followers. It wasn't the best, but it wasn't the worse either. For my knowledge of music back then, I thought it was actually pretty amazing for me to create that. I started to get more into making songs with noteblocks. I had a TON of unshared songs I was too lazy to do, but I scrapped them all, since it intimidated me having all of those projects sitting in the "Unshared" section. I continued to enter CCs and make random noteblock projects until I made a certain project that changed me forever. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/116298929/ ^ If I'd never created that song, trust me, I wouldn't be where I am today. When I was creating Lazy Afternoons, I was hanging out with my older brother at home while our parents were at the grocery store. We were goofing around all day, going in the backyard, watching TV, cooking some food. It was probably the litest day I ever had at my house. Lazy Afternoons was a song that appeared in Kingdom Hearts 2 as the background music of the tutorial of the game. When I was playing the game for the first time, I adored it's theme. It seems so peaceful and beautiful to me, which inspired me to make it into a noteblock song. I'd finally learned how to create noteblocks songs with an even on beat harmony, so I incorporated that into that song. I learned a lot creating that song, and I realized I actually had fun creating that, so I continued to discover a passion I never realized I had. A passion for music itself. I continued on with this passion, and I found that my prediction was correct. I actually had found something I never knew I actually loved. And here I am, after all the sinful memes, trashy projects, overly effortless CCs, here I am, after an entire year being on this website, with 24 noteblock projects (This one being the 24st) and 400 followers to back me up by my side. 400. PEOPLE. SERIOUSLY. THAT'S INSANE. Seriously, I can't even thank you guys enough. All of you, every single one of you watching this project right now are the reason I keep Scratching. You've motivated my so much to keep going on this beautiful journey, so thank you all, thank you so much for everything. I guess this really is a Beautiful December... ;) KH16 out.
