Beatmaking, Pants on the Ground & More (well, more stuff, not more clothes on the ground)

So it's 12:26 am, so I guess you can say that I started the day making beats. I was joking with my friend Brandon about sampling Pants on the Ground and turning it into a hit, so out of boredom I got "Pants on the Ground", found the part I wanted to sample ("Gold in your mouth, hat turned sideways"), opened up FL Studio and just started playing around with the sample and stock sounds (I have a hard drive with all my beats, soundsets and vst plugins and didn't feel like going to get it at the time). I came up with an awful, corny, generic beat which made me get my scrap the idea and just see if I could make a beat. I got my external hard drive and picked out a random sound (it's a real alien sounding synth) and came up with a little something.... After about 10 minutes I laid down some nice drums and a bass and now I'm off to bed to see how it sounds in the morning, when I will add some more instruments, sound effects, composite it to my liking and the do some "mixing" (I put it in parenthesis because I really have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to mastering). Hopefully I will be able to post a final track by midweek.

In other news.... Yestertoday (it's not really a real word, well maybe it is, but it's to describe the fact that it was technically yesterday, but I haven't gone to sleep yet so it feels like the same day) I received my first, and hopefully not last, check for filming and editing a short commercial type video for Peer2Peer Tutors, a tutoring company located in the DMV area. Now it's not like I'm "rolling in money" but it's still a nice feeling to be paid for your services. I would like to continue making videos for others in the future, so if you need a commercial for a product/service, a music video, or somebody to film a special event, e-mail me at slbam09@yahoo.com and I will see what I can do. If you haven't noticed I have a coming soon section under Services, because I'm still coming up with prices for my services. So keep a look out for those or e-mail me if you need anything in the lines of video production/animation/graphic design done.