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How do you judge your melodies?
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| djglacial |
Who else has this problem?
I can never tell if my melodies are any good anymore.
I produce at least 4 hours a day, and that's great for the mastering side, but I've pretty much become desensitized to melody :S.
I can come up with chord progressions no problem, and make pretty nifty pads, but when it comes to single notes, arpeggios and trance chords... it all goes to s**t.
And it doesn't help at all that whenever I hear the radio I automatically think "that sounds like ass bandits, I woulda deleted that melody."
Anyone heard any mainstream rap music lately? Eff. |
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| DJ KaRiM NeT |
| let ur friends listen maybe .. |
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| WiKKid sKiLLz |
most of my tracks are patern based, so when i toss in a melody , it really stands out. If its the melody i had in my head, and i can get it out of my fingers in to the sequencer, i know its good, if its not, chances are its bad.
sometimes i ask friends to have a listen |
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| djglacial |
Maybe, if they had any taste in music.
My only tracks my friends like are vocal house tracks. That's fine, but house makes up like 10% of what I do.
Oh well. Just post for review here I guess.
| quote: | Originally posted by WiKKid sKiLLz
most of my tracks are patern based, so when i toss in a melody , it really stands out. If its the melody i had in my head, and i can get it out of my fingers in to the sequencer, i know its good, if its not, chances are its bad. |
Yah. Same. I don't get many chances to do that though. I come up with most of my ideas a work, and I can't sing for $h!7 so recording's out. My notation isn't up to snuff either. |
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| WiKKid sKiLLz |
i created my own simple notation so if i get an idea i can jot down a visual representation of it. I always forget the riff, but after humming it out from my notation, i remember it, or i just re-invent it.
try dots or lines on lined notebook paper |
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| djglacial |
| Done that more than once. Yah, that works, thanks. |
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| JustinMead |
| Make some new freinds :D |
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| DJ Shibby |
Me too man.. when I hear a melody on the radio now, it can't have any unwanted dissonance or keys off pitch or else it puts me on edge.
And my melodies.. well I have the opposite problem. I just tend to get rushed with the need to tweak a melody until it's 2435234 bars long with lots of good bits and hooks, but no solid end product to use in the track. |
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| Dj Cola |
i h8 doing melodies.. yea im pretty good at everything else, making basslines percussions kick's and all.. but when it comes to melodys i totally suck.. this recent one the experimental guys liked was just a darn lucker :D
anyone have noticed that alot of hiphop has turned to the electronic side.. alot of em.. black eyed peas - saw's supersaw's etc. |
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| *InVeRs3* |
I usually just wait a day or two after I make melodies. I'm always progressing even though it's slow, and I'm always amazed at what I can do even though it's something simple. I listen to my melody I made in the morning, and most of the time I wonder why I even thought that melody was cool.
And yeah. In my opinion, a lot of rap these days is just awful. I'm tired of that detuned sound that's in lil john's songs. yeck! |
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| JustinMead |
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And yeah. In my opinion, a lot of rap these days is just awful. I'm tired of that detuned sound that's in lil john's songs. yeck! |
WHAT!?
YEA!!!
OK!!!
Justin :wtf: |
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