Total Happy Up And Sunny by Sascha Ende

Total Happy Up And Sunny
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How I produce music

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A little story about this old song.

Task for me: Produce the most unimaginative and "calculated" song EVER. Goal: To prove that points 1-4 are no guarantee for success and that creativity is valued in an experimental sense.

1. take the most famous of all chord sequences, which always guarantees success: C - G - Am - F
2. use the instruments that appear in the most popular library songs Simple 4/4 beat, a bit of guitar, piano, xylophone, marimba, high strings, clapping, ...
3. repeat everything over and over again, no too much ups and downs, so you can use it as a continuous loop
4. use a title with lots of happy words, even if they don't make sense, "total" is always great because it enhances everything afterwards, "happy" stands for total happiness, "up" is always better than "down" and "sunny" is something people like because the sun is our life-giver.

The song was produced after about 3 hours and is still not out of the sales charts. Unfortunately I lost the bet against me. Sad realization until today: Conceptual music always sells better than experimental ventures.

So when I take a pile in the toilet in the morning, totally sleepy, it's more creative than this one song :)

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Total Happy Up And Sunny
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
A little story about this old song. Task for me: Produce the most unimaginative and "calculated" song EVER. Goal: To prove that points 1-4 are no guarantee for success and that creativity is valued in an experimental sense. 1. take the most famous of all chord sequences, which always guarantees...
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Mathy
By EP!C TV      Sascha Ende      Total Happy Up And Sunny Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 6218 views
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
I laughed really hard reading the description. I kinda hate it too but my client picked this one out of like five songs :D . But I love the rest of your stuff :))
CraftyElf
By Crafty Elf      Sascha Ende      Total Happy Up And Sunny Monday, April 24th, 2023 15740 views
Monday, April 24th, 2023
My guess as to the reason of it's popularity: boring and repetitive songs that are still good and upbeat are often very good for background music, which is what I'm using it for.
MadDogStudio
By The Mad Dogs      Sascha Ende      Total Happy Up And Sunny Sunday, March 26th, 2023 16955 views
Sunday, March 26th, 2023
You know, besides all the "musical tech stuff" it is just a simple & cool number that can be used in a huge variety of videos! Now go out and make more...
thatsht
By TH@ ?H17      Sascha Ende      Total Happy Up And Sunny Thursday, October 27th, 2022 21830 views
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
@SaschaEnde I don't believe the words art and contest should be used together.
thatsht
By TH@ ?H17      Sascha Ende      Total Happy Up And Sunny Thursday, October 27th, 2022 21817 views
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
@SaschaEnde I can totally empathize. I have learned that the public on average has average taste.
thatsht
By TH@ ?H17      Sascha Ende      Total Happy Up And Sunny Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 21827 views
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
But congratulations for cracking the code
thatsht
By TH@ ?H17      Sascha Ende      Total Happy Up And Sunny Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 21834 views
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
How depressing that your unimaginative and algorithmic song is also the most popular.