Weekly Composition Post — "The Raindrop"

(Poster image crop from original by "Malta Girl" used under CC 2.0 license) This week's (well, technically the week of April 19th) track is "The Raindrop". It should have been posted on April 26th, but I didn't have time to start that track until Saturday, and when I did sit down to do it, I was just... I had a really bad mental health week that week and wasn't in a place to write music. Plus, as Maddy Myers reminded me when I talked about it with her later, "writing a song in a week is hard actually?" It did get done, though, and I want to talk about how that happened. If you've listened to my other music, especially my earliest stuff from a couple years ago, and also followed me on socials, you may recall that 1.) I was using GarageBand on the iPad, and 2.) talked a lot about my complicated feelings using the "Drummer Tool" in GB. Well, because GB is a psyop intended to get you to buy Logic Pro (it worked), the "Drummer Tool" has a more complicated equivalent in Logic: the "Session…