Absolutely. Maybe you're just so acquainted with many harder forms of dance that you're incapable of discerning it. None of them really had any melody...that's my point. Take away melody in dance music and all you have left is the percussion and a few other things. When this happens, there's little talent left.

And btw, I was mainly referring to tracks 3 and 6.

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Originally posted by george_hales Make a track with them and send it to labels, thats the only real way i suppose!

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Originally posted by Hydarnes Absolutely. Maybe you're just so acquainted with many harder forms of dance that you're incapable of discerning it. None of them really had any melody...that's my point. Take away melody in dance music and all you have left is the percussion and a few other things. When this happens, there's little talent left.

thats the same in every genre except if you did it with classical you wouldnt have anything

Hehe. Oh btw, add hard house to that category.

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Originally posted by Hydarnes Absolutely. Maybe you're just so acquainted with many harder forms of dance that you're incapable of discerning it. None of them really had any melody...that's my point. Take away melody in dance music and all you have left is the percussion and a few other things. When this happens, there's little talent left. And btw, I was mainly referring to tracks 3 and 6.

Firstly you have yet to prove that electro, and house, and electrohouse are "almost exclusively percussion"

Secondly, if you were able to prove this, you have yet to prove that it takes more talet to sequence a melody, over sequencing a drum pattern.

I say sequencing, because I would agree that in real life, such as an orchestra, the drums, and various other forms of percussion are much simpler than the rest both to learn and to play. Although, to be fair they do hold alot more pressure, as there usually arent 15 other people playing a snare drum, as with if you play trumpet, you'll usually be in a group of 10 or so others doing the same thing.

Anyways, as far as electronic music is concerened, I dont think its easy to say that sequencing a "melody" is any harder, or requires much more talent than sequencing a drum pattern. In fact with many forms of electronic music, the drum patterns are much more complex, and richer, than the melodies.

boy we have a couple of real idiots on the boards....threads like this sure bring out their wide ranging knowledge of EDM...

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Originally posted by Floorfiller boy we have a couple of real idiots on the boards....threads like this sure bring out their wide ranging knowledge of EDM...

hey you watch your mouth jive turkey! If I want to eat the troll bait, I'm damn well going to do so!

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Originally posted by Hydarnes Are the following "electro-house" or not?:

No.

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Originally posted by Hydarnes EDM styles that are almost exclusively percussion with no real melody, then I'm afraid it takes almost zero talent.

You still have no idea what percussion is, do you?

Percussion has absolutely nothing to do with rhythm, melody or harmony. IT DOES NOT MEAN DRUMS. Melody can be percussion. Anything played with a piano or keyboard is percussion. But again, this means very little in electronic music's case, since there are no real genuine percussion instruments being employed in its production. But there are simulators of percussion (polysynths, sample playback, etc...). Technically, any arpeggiated synth is percussive. That's virtually all trance ever made.

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Originally posted by Ishkur any arpeggiated synth is percussive.

no.

apreggio means plucked and percussion is not plucked.