It's been MONTHS since my last upload! ^^; I'll just get right into the little story behind this track. The idea to first do just a cover of Ryan Higa's "Dog Step" track sort of came to me while I was rewatching some of my favorite videos from the nigahiga and HigaTV channels on YT. I was almost serious about it, and even attempted to start a composition, but it just did not go anywhere! I guess I wasn't in the mindset to put much into music making at all back then.

Weeks later, after finding out that Ryan streams and plays games with his friends at Twitch, I let him know about this cover idea out of amusement. He replied to my message, about it not being hard cover to do as he tried to recall how the main melody went. (Before he starts gaming, he spends some time just talking to people in the Twitch chat. Just want to make that part clear.)

Sometime later that day (yesterday as I type this), I decided to just do my own take of the instrumental, using the same main melody. The main melody is a bit different and it works pretty good. Most of everything comes from the composition I put together in the Rytmik Ultimate software! After opening up Audacity, I added some dog FX to add onto the track. Somewhere in the middle of this is a vocal sound from Ryan's miniature dacshund, Marley. It's just not "Dog Step" without him, lol. I put a bit of reverb on the recording.

Towards the second half onward to the end are two FX I recorded, modified, and then inserted. Both came from an adorable black puppy. That high pitched squeak that sounds like a one-shot synth? After putting some reverb on it, it came out as a really nice sample. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYAh4Pss0ns Go to the 3:43 mark of this video! You'll hear the weird and cute high-pitched sound the pup made, along with a "rrrrrrRuff" that I liked, and inserted. ...Is that a terrier, or a Pomeranian? I can't tell from the poor lighting.

There's a guy from Russia who has a YT channel known as Insane Cherry. He puts together covers of various songs using various sounds that animals make. Sometimes, he chooses to transform animal sounds to make them sound like pads, basslines, synthesizers, and beats!

I can relate to him a little as of now, after making that little synth one shot out of the unusual puppy sound. So, for anyone who'd ilke to try to produce cool and new samples of sounds for instrumentals; you could go on YouTube, and listen for any interesting animal sounds. lol

To actually have a bit of dubstep towards the end of the composition came as a last minute idea, in addition to modifying one of Rytmik synth sounds. Glad I thought of adding the dubstep snares and bass parts. I impressed myself a little.

Since a lot of Ryan's videos end with him saying, "Teehee", I did the same with a recording of my own voice. That was just one more essential thing I knew I wanted to put in there, other than the Marley sound.

EDIT: I recently shared and promoted this on Twitter and tagged Ryan. (I had to work during the weekend, so I used Twitter. Otherwise I would've gladly let him and the cool people in the chat know the remix has been uploaded online.) He saw that, and gave a like! Of course, I'd love to hear what he thinks of this track lol