shadycicada

This Week's Song (Backing Track)

I'm back! Here's a download of this week's song.

I made a new Friday Night Funkin'-styled song, as I was inspired by the last one and people's wishes for another. This time, I went with the metal/video game style that the channel is mainly known ...

Plans for June (and tab things)

So as I excpted, May was super busy, but super fruitful. I should still be providing some tabs, possibly for "Dragonblood". Will try to finish it for this week!

Other than that, I will possib...

An exclusive song (just for you) from a project I'm working on! (3/3)

Here you go. A full original NOT found on YouTube (minus a small sample). This is for one of the games I'm working on. The one I talked about named "Detained: Too Good for School". I can't give too...

"Dragonblood" - Shady Cicada (2/3)

Man, it's hard to luck back at that thumbnail. Beautifully atrocious :'D I made another anime metal/battle theme for a commission! I got this version mixed and mastered by Sixteen in Mono and I abs...

Making my own Friday Night Funkin' Song (1/3)

Goodness. This was meant to be a half joke video. Something I just made in a night. I didn't expect it to "blow up" so much and grow my channel. Starting to notice a pattern where things grow more ...

Plans for this week (Make Video Suggestions in Comments!)

We're still livin' on the edge. I keep coming up with these ideas at the last minute. But for whatever reason, they all seem to be doing well and I've been having a lot of fun. I am once again unsu...

This Week's Songs (Free Download)

Change of Plans (for the better)

So I got caught up in commissions again and didn't have time to make the video I had planned for this week BUT I am able to reveal some samples of music I made for one of the video games I'm writin...

Plans for this week

I've done two song ideas with commentary now, so I thought I'd change it up this week with a cover, as I mentioned in my overall May plan. It could be "ugh" from Friday Night Funkin' because I did ...

This Week's Song (Free Early Download)

Another anime battle theme! I made this one awhile ago for a commission, but never officially released it. I have a ton of idea for new ones that stray from the path a little (which I'm excited abo...

This Week's Song (Backing Track)

This Week's Song (Free Early Download)

I did the thing

Plans for this week (+ Plans for May. Busy content month maybe!)

Woah! So I decided to take most of April off. I only uploaded one video, so you will only see what paid post for April. A fair trade :'D That being said, I'd like to take a PLANNED break in June, m...

I made a random VG cover. Here's a download!

I've had Rainbow Road SNES stuck in my head for the past 24+ hours. I decided to take a few hours and just write out a rock arrangement for it. I hope you enjoy!

Weekly Update and Plans (+ Shoot me some video game cover ideas!)

Still working on video ideas but I'm not sure what exactly I'll be uploading yet. Of course I only charge for original songs that I actually upload, so if I'm unable to make anything at the moment,...

"Ocarina Cicada" - Shady Cicada (3/3)

Some of the most fun I've had with music this month. The Zelda series is my favorite series ever and something that gives me great amounts of comfort and happiness in my life. To be able to compose...

"Beyond Compare" - Shady Cicada (2/3)

The song with a dumb/funny backstory to it. It may have been written for the silliest purpose possible, but I quite enjoyed how it came out, given the time I had with it. It also helped me learned ...

"schmove." - Shady Cicada (1/3)

This song did way more than I thought for the channel. And it's all thanks to the boys at "Just Roll With It" for commissioning it as their theme song. I gave it my all and I'm glad to see it payin...

Guitar and Bass Tabs for "schmove". Come and get 'em!

This one is really fun for practicing bigger/jazzier chords and dead mutes. Just a fun song to play in general. Also bass stuff! Rock on, friends.

This Week's Mini Songs (Backing Track)

In case you wanted to hear how the background stuff was composed (well I mean, that IS what part of this reward is for 😅)! I was pretty happy with the string harmonies and the background hard ac...

Managed to make a video for this week! (Song Download)

It's a short one, but I basically did a very small and quick study on the themes in Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask (the themes you actually play on the Ocarina) and the philosophy of using minimum n...

Small song idea/preview (download)

A client asked for celtic instrument vibes mixed with synth-y/sci-fi stuff. So im trying to make that work

I think some reverb, delay, and humanization on the lead instruments will help it fi...

HELLO big update time and video/reward plans

Hello yes. I still exist and so does this page. I know I say it every time, but commissions and this year have been heavy lately, so I apologize for the constant disappearing. I honestly do hope th...

Plans for this week and Patreon plans!

Alright! So I'd like to get an original song done for this week for youtube. I was thinking of fusing the "how to" stuff with the commentary stuff, seeing as people enjoy the commentary a lot bette...

New Song (Backing Track)

Bam. Can't find these anywhere else :D 

Some new originals! (2/2)

The first song is one I wrote for a group of youtubers for their DnD channel (Just Roll with It). They wanted something Persona 4-ish, so that's what I aimed for! The other is a track I'm working o...

"Tough Love" - My Metal Song for Valentine's (1/2)

So this months will be very light on paid posts (just this video and one song rather than 4-5 paid posts) as I've been taking a break. I have some ideas for March though so we'll see how things go!...

Thank you all so much for being so amazing. Another update post

I seriously appreciate all of the comments on the last post. I should have honestly expected an answer like that, but my brain always assumes the worst. It's quite relieving to know that even if I ...

Update about the future of this page and important questions for you. Please read!

Okay so as you've all noticed, I've been pretty slow with updates on here lately. I've listed reasons in the past (YouTube being icky, having tons of commissions and trying to balance that and YouT...