What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about making music when you started?

[LimpyLoo]

 

 

 

Actually I might necro the LimpyLoo's Tip Du Jour thread to bounce around some more concepts that I think are universally useful.

 

 

Please do

 

 

yes, you the man

 

Intervals & modulation of chords is what interests me mostly. The arcane magic behind classical music.

 

 

Can you specify what you mean by both intervals and modulations of chords.

 

 

By modulations of chords do you just mean harmonic motion in general?

[psn]

Or maybe he means voicings/inversions? Substitutions?

[foresense]

intervals = how do you find out which chords work from a theoretical approach.

modulation = what is the theory behind harmonic motion, the system that tells you what works and what doesn't.

 

I'm quite illiterate when it comes to that stuff. common sense I have.

 

actually I suspect it's becoming an artifact in the music I do in Renoise, because I have to enter stuff via keys, and they are in a white and black key configuration on the keyboard.. in Reason I would always do these really angular melodies that seem to come easier because all the semi tones are in an equal length distance. it would be interesting to know what I was doing.

[LimpyLoo]

intervals = how do you find out which chords work from a theoretical approach.

modulation = what is the theory behind harmonic motion, the system that tells you what works and what doesn't.

 

I'll give my take on this stuff in a new episode of LimpyLoo's Tip Du Jour.

[Zephyr_Nova]

"Make sure your kicks and snares are nice and punchy." I didn't really pay much attention to drums when I first started listening to music, so when I first started recording I hardly noticed the drum levels and they often got buried. I didn't know what good drums were supposed to sound like because I never focused on them when listening to music Now it's something that often makes or breaks good recordings for me. Getting the perfect drum balance is still the trickiest part for me when it comes to recording bands. It's easy for electronic music though.

[foresense]

nice one will check it out

 

voicings, inversions & substitutions also sound familiar, without understanding them.

[BCM]

how daft punk created their "one more time" sample.

[rekosn]

"try really hard to do a shit track" rob brown

[LimpyLoo]

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/81898-bride-of-limpyloos-tip-du-jour/?do=findComment&comment=2114177

[awepittance]

burying your music in fx to give it an atmosphere is the easy way out

[Zephyr_Nova]

I wish someone had told me to listen to Sonic Youth and MBV when I was in highschool. They would have inadvertently told me something about making music that would have lead me down more interesting paths early on.

[Cryptowen]

If ur yunger self was hear 2day, producin techno, wut wud u say 2 him?

 

 

i wudnt say a single word 2 him. I'd make weird airplane noises & let him sample it, & thats what no one did

[DerWaschbar]

lol

[hello spiral]

lol

[Friendly Foil]

lol

[Chris Toffer]

lold

[chassis]

Wow, pretty much got too physisophical and then went were I thought it would.

 

The aswsers I was looking for was actually technical, but whatever,

[Rbrmyofr]

Don't buy a brand new Yamaha A3000 sampler for a thousand quid back in 1999.

[Guest]

backup everything.

[Guest Hanratty]

Don't buy a brand new Yamaha A3000 sampler for a thousand quid back in 1999.

 

 

I wish someone had told me to buy a Nord Modular when it came out. Instead I bought some Roland cheese stuff.

[xox]

less internet

[Guest skibby]

less internet

 

"dont ever go on the internet for any reason"

[xox]

 

less internet

 

"dont ever go on the internet for any reason"

 

like not every surf is not porn related ....not :p

 

 

also: play less chess, for god's sake!

 

(at least 50.000 games played on-line. imagine that time spent on music production...)

[foresense]

 

Don't buy a brand new Yamaha A3000 sampler for a thousand quid back in 1999.

ahaha

 

 

I'm using my A5000 as an FX unit mostly, sounds good for that. Good reverbs and tons of delays with live control parameters. Got it for 100eu complete with the box that still had the 3000eu pricetag on it.

[awepittance]

auto-fellatio can be accomplished with consistent practice