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    writing melodies

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    A musician saying he doesn't want to know music theory because it will limit his creativity is like an explorer in the ancient times saying he doesn't want to have a map made by other explorers because it will limit his plans for journeys. And then the explorer travels around for a decade, choosing what direction to go to based on his whims. During his travels, he thinks he's arrived at some novel places and made some exciting discoveries. When he's back from his journey, the places he's been to are mapped onto existing maps. It turns out, of course, that all the places he went to had already been mapped out by other explorers long before he started his journey

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    writing melodies

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    17 minutes ago, brian trageskin said:

    yeah, if you're gonna use a 4-note scale, don't pick one that contains both a b2 and a tritone, probably not the best idea lol

    A 4-note scale that contains both a b2 and a tritone can be perfect if the goal is to write something that sounds raw and aggressive, e.g. a punk or metal riff

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    writing melodies

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    Youtube has lots of tutorials for writing melodies.
    I like this tutorial series:

    That channel seems underrated to me: it has good content but relatively few views.

     

    I also like all Nelward's tutorials. This is the most relevant one for making melodies:

     

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    writing melodies

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    4 minutes ago, brian trageskin said:

    shit, believe it or not but i didn't read this part lol. i was preoccupied by something else and didn't even pay attention. my post was unnecessary then. your point is valid. yeah it could be any number of scales depending on the rest of the harmony.

    Yes, that's what I meant. A minor or a major key is indeed the most obvious choice of scale for this bassline, and F minor would make sense here as the home chord. However, when adding other instruments, it is possible to treat this section like it's in F phrygian for example, and introduce the b2 in the parts played by other instruments (the melody or chords). The same goes for Ab mixolydian: the b7 can be played by other instruments. This may produce something more interesting than just going for plain minor or major.

    writing melodies

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    1 hour ago, brian trageskin said:

    actually i'd say we're in F minor, not Ab major. which isn't all that different since F minor is part or Ab major and vice versa but still, it changes how you perceive the progression.

    I think it could be any of these scales, depending on what the other instruments are doing. Although some of these fit the bassline more naturally than others

    writing melodies

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    On 1/17/2022 at 12:56 AM, vkxwz said:

    Found this in an aphex interview once: "Everytime you make music, if you’re on form, you should be imaging what you want to hear, which is basically how you want it to be"

    Is this an exact quote from Aphex? Googling this doesn't yield any Aphex interviews as search hits. If you are just going by memory and it's not an exact quote, I wonder what his real words were

    Windows 11

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    I have Windows 11 on one of my computers. It feels like it's just Windows 10 with a slightly updated UI theme that imitates MacOS with its centered dock and rounded window corners. I guess over time Windows 10 and Windows 11 will diverge more but now they're almost the same thing

    wage labor brainwashing

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    7 hours ago, milkface said:

    getting pressured and guilt tripped into working 55+ hours a week because "we're understaffed" and the things you'd normally expect.

    I've had a similar thing in the past, perhaps even worse. Bosses have demanded me to work 70+ hours per week every week, without any payment for overtime work. The bosses acted like this is a completely normal thing to demand from their employees. If you don't comply, serious guilt tripping, bullying and gaslighting will ensue. The same bosses themselves of course never work more than 40 hours per week

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    How to get a rock fan into electronic music?

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    I was a fan of Nirvana and punk rock before I started listening to electronic music (20 years ago). The often recommended transition of [rock music -> rock music with electronic elements -> industrial -> electronic music] absolutely didn't work for me. I had heard bands such as NIN, Skinny Puppy and Prodigy and didn't like them. The tracks of Aphex that are usually recommended as the first things to listen to also didn't work: I was unimpressed with Windowlicker, Come to Daddy and SAW1.
    The things that caught my interest were the things that sounded the most unfamiliar to me: Confield and post-Confield Autechre, the weirdest BoC album interlude tracks, and glitchy minimalist music from netlabels such as Autoplate.

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    Audio Programming

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    20 hours ago, zkom said:

    Reviving this thread because lately I've been doing audio programming in Python to create sound editing tools. NumPy and SciPy offer pretty good signal processing functionalities that can be used relatively easily for audio programming also and I got pretty familiar with them in my previous job. Anyone else gone down this road? It's a bit hardcore and mathematical way to do audio stuff but you can create some interesting things.

    I have dabbled in this. Processing audio in Python seems interesting indeed and has endless possibilities but I haven't had enough free time to build anything substantial

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    NOT Coronavirus COVID-19

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    4 hours ago, Satans Little Helper said:

    I might ask some anonymous friends to push a false narrative there's a chip inside those pills. Apparently Bill Gates found out the vaxx only allows tracing of people for a short amount of time. So, instead, he pushed for another way to shove pills with chips inside people on a regular basis. Pills which treat COVID. Smart thinking....

    Obviously, a chip has to be really small to fit through a vaccination needle but bigger and therefore more powerful chips fit in pills. And tech companies keep telling consumers that there is a global shortage of chips. It's like a large proportion of chips got diverted away from their intended use and are now used in some secret project. OMG, it all makes sense!!!!!111

    How rhythm functions

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    19 hours ago, brian trageskin said:

    say you're a pianist and you're playing a bebop standard with a band. as long as your time is good and you groove hard with the rest of the band, you could play a bunch of random chords and notes and the result would still be great - in a weird/bonkers way, but great nonetheless. and the listeners would still connect with the music on a visceral level, no matter what, because the music would still make sense. whereas the opposite scenario cannot work: if you play the right notes and chords in the right order but your time sucks, i guarantee you that the resulting music will suck and the listeners won't connect with it. the same applies to pretty much any genre. 

    Yes. Here is a video where Ben Levin demonstrates the same thing on a guitar. He is playing wacky out of tune pitches but it still sounds like it makes sense because he has solid rhythm. This resembles Kurt Cobain's antisolos.
    https://youtu.be/U77fhSExv9U?t=142

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    Social Media's Effects On Our Minds & Lives

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    I've never posted much on Facebook but have been skimming the news feed daily. My Facebook news feed was quite vibrant and entertaining 10 years ago but now it is increasingly becoming like a ghost town, as more and more people either close their accounts or stop posting. It definitely feels like it's following the death trajectory of MySpace.

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    UFO'S

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    23 minutes ago, dingformung said:

    (But why isn't a new map created when you go outside the map of the game, based on decisions you made in the game? Infinitely? Like an infinite exploration of possibilities that never reaches its end because it doesn't have an end, kinda like a fractal? I wanna learn how to navigate this weirdness a bit better, as there seem to be a lot of possibilities to be explored that may make me and everyone else feel intense pleasure)

    I don't know, I think the explanation is a lot weirder than I will ever be able to understand.

    In computer games, when the map has a fixed size, it's done to save computational resources (e.g. the CPU power it takes to compute everything that happens within the map and the memory and disk space to keep track of it). But of course, if our universe is a simulation, I would expect the that external universe that is running the simulation does not have the exact same laws of physics as the simulated universe, so it's impossible for us to tell what kind of computational resources are needed to run the simulation.
    The simulated universe having an expanding map or a fractal-like map are possibilities too. The idea of a limited map fits especially well for explaining the Fermi paradox, though.
    I think humans will never find out whether we live in a simulation or not, and if we are in a simulation, what's outside of it.

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