The Hardest Thing for you When you make Music ???

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Posted by Peter Campbell on May-13-2001 06:07:

The Hardest thing for me is the Drum tracks because I am so melody minded .

Posted by fastmp3 on May-13-2001 06:46:

I gotta say the inverse for me , i can't fix on my mind a specific melody , but when it comes to the drums , it's always ok

Posted by Peter Campbell on May-13-2001 06:58:

quote:
Originally posted by FASTDJMP3
I gotta say the inverse for me , i can't fix on my mind a specific melody , but when it comes to the drums , it's always ok
shit your lucky , our minds must be programmed differently .

Posted by fastmp3 on May-13-2001 07:22:

Let's switch them for a while
Hahahahaha LMAO

Posted by Johnny Eckhardt on May-13-2001 08:46:

Drums and percussion come pretty easy for me.
As far as the melody.....sometimes I'll have a melody already in my head when I start to write something but most of the time, the melody takes shape as I'm working on a song. I tend to find myself starting with either a drum / percussion track or a bass line and then build off of that.
Not always...but most of the time.

Posted by [A|ienFactory] on May-13-2001 11:24:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Pete
The Hardest thing for me is the Drum tracks because I am so melody minded .

I'm just like you. Drums are the hardest part.

Posted by Johnny Eckhardt on May-16-2001 10:08:

After looking at this question again....the other hardest thing for me is not having that "creative flow" disrupted by something or someone. Almost never fails, though. If it's not the phone ringing...it's someone knockin on the door....or both at the same time.

Posted by Peter Campbell on May-16-2001 10:38:

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Originally posted by Johnny Eckhardt
After looking at this question again....the other hardest thing for me is not having that "creative flow" disrupted by something or someone. Almost never fails, though. If it's not the phone ringing...it's someone knockin on the door....or both at the same time.
What I do is have a small tape recorder with me and hum melodies and stuff in , that way I will never for get it . It takes about 2-4 months for me to finish a song and for the first month I just use my tape recorder and think about what type of song I want and plan it out and go over every thing I want to do . It makes a big difference going from when I first started of 5 hours to make a song to 4 months .

Posted by Kurve on May-19-2001 07:15:

I say if you want to make good epic/melodic/uplifting Trance..the hardest part is the Basslines.... which you cant always really hear but they do so much for the song!!

thats why Ferry is considered a ACE in Producing..cuz he has signature Basslines that just kick major ass!

Posted by Peter Campbell on May-19-2001 08:57:

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Originally posted by TranceCluber
I say if you want to make good epic/melodic/uplifting Trance..the hardest part is the Basslines.... which you cant always really hear but they do so much for the song!!

thats why Ferry is considered a ACE in Producing..cuz he has signature Basslines that just kick major ass!
I agree with you there also , I love basslines and arpeggiators .

Posted by Johnny Eckhardt on May-19-2001 11:17:

Sometimes, another thing that can be difficult is knowing when enough is enough. It often gets easy to get carried away when writing and ending up with something that has too much in it.So, keeping myself from overdoing it can be a challenge.

Posted by Peter Campbell on May-19-2001 13:35:

quote:
Originally posted by Johnny Eckhardt
Sometimes, another thing that can be difficult is knowing when enough is enough. It often gets easy to get carried away when writing and ending up with something that has too much in it.So, keeping myself from overdoing it can be a challenge.
Thats a good point , also knowing when enough is a enough in a certain part in a song can make or break it . My point is don`t just ram everything in the hole song , make it have purpose .

Posted by z3r0morpH on May-21-2001 03:54:

um can i ask you all a question??? how do you make your drums, programs....?? thanks..

Posted by Peter Campbell on May-21-2001 07:39:

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Originally posted by z3r0morpH
um can i ask you all a question??? how do you make your drums, programs....?? thanks..
What are you using z3r0morpH at the moment ?. The best way is to use a sequencer { Cubase , logic } use a Synth to import MIDI than record into audio , than take only one beat stabs the best one then clone it as many times as you want .