Grey Shade of Blue: Vocal [Original] | Sab Irene

Here's my video game vocal composition, Grey Shade of Blue! I'm Sab and I love saxophone and video games, so now I make compositions that combine two of my favorite things!

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Another composition done down to the wire! Last week I was working on something completely different, but realized I needed more time for it. And I thought about what to do next. I realized I’ve never really written a vocal tune about myself in all my years of composing and writing after talking with a student about their songwriting. Most lyrical tracks I write are about nature and how I feel about it, but not myself or how I feel in general. I think it’s an easy thing to avoid because it can feel incredibly scary to be vulnerable or just feel too cliche writing about certain emotions and experiences.

One thing I feel like everyone has felt, especially myself, is feeling grey. Where the world kind of washes over you and people or things that you make you feel any positive emotion, do nothing for you in this state. To me, it’s like a form of sadness or depression, but there’s a numbness to it. And it sucks, when you feel grey and can’t really pinpoint why and you don’t know how to get out of it. That’s what this song really speaks to. To capture the essence of this grey feeling and this longing to break out of it.

I wanted to keep it very simple and exposed, as expressing your emotions can be very personal and raw. The mix was definitely a challenge because there were so few layers. I had to think about how to make the the piano and vocals feel very full, but without being too boomy or too loud in general. It becomes a very delicate balance, and one I’ll continue to work on as time goes on. There was a lot of automating FX for each section since my voice and the piano needed to function in such different ways.

As for the video, I wanted to do various angles of the vocals to give more variation as it’s just voice and piano. I didn’t want to do plain black and white for this since the track is called Grey Shade of Blue. So I finally got to try a technique I’ve seen a lot of over the years, but never tried myself, which was a color accent! I have a blue dress that was the perfect shade to compliment the otherwise monochromatic palette of the video.

A huge thank you to KevinKrust for his help tightening up the lyrics and the mix!


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