Everything was going wrong, and this song was definitely not turning into a well-polished piece, but as I sat with the window open in FL Studio, I just couldn't stop listening. There's something incredibly addictive about this endless driving theme. So, I threw out the idea of a polished song, and just went with wanton exploitation of that theme. I'm a big believer in abusing a good thing relentlessly until all life is squeezed out of it. :P

As such, the introduction is just one very busy loop repeating over and over and over while run under a rising filter sweep, and it's this bullish introduction which gives the song its identical name in both English and Chinese: Rising Dragon. This is the song that was never really structured to be a song, and is a little rough around the edges, but still manages to win. It stops abruptly at the end because it's meant to loop. You're not supposed to turn it off.

This song feels very private to me because I can drink it in forever seemingly without tiring, and yet many others do not find it quite as enveloping as I do. I have the personality where I can listen to one song for an hour solid if it's really good, and this meets my standards. I don't know if this is necessarily my favorite of my own compositions, but it's the one that is the most emotionally potent for me to listen to. Since that's one of my big goals, I think that makes it a success. No matter what anyone else thinks of it.

With that said, there are certainly some major weaknesses. Aside from the structural simplicity I mentioned above, there's a whopping huge lot of unwanted fuzz and noise from my excessive abuse of distortion and overdrive effects to get the sound here. It also hurts my ears if I listen to this song too much. In fact, after I listen to this song too much, I just want to sit in silence to rest my poor ears. Between these problems, and just taste, Rising Dragon isn't quite as popular with others as it seems to be with myself. Darn! Perfection escapes me yet!

The loops used in this song were created by myself. Rising Dragon as a whole was composed in Image-Line's FL Studio. I did not use a midi keyboard. There are a mixture of customized and stock instruments in this song, and it makes use of FL Studio's built in drum samples.

As always, I'm very interested in hearing what YOU think about it -- whether you liked it like I did, or even if you didn't. If you have suggestions to help me in the future, then please share them! If there are problems you notice with my Chinese, then please correct me on that too -- I'm not a native speaker, and using it here is one thing I'm doing to try to study and learn.

(As a side note, I'm submitting this on my 21st birthday!)