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The One Bit Of Advice You Could Give? (pg. 3)
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
Well, I disagree with a lot of what's been said here. From my own experience, the writing is the easiest part, probably because I started off making acoustic music, so came at it as a musician rather than as an engineer.
So I find it very easy to write, but very hard to engineer good tracks. So I disagree with cryophonic that writing is the hardest part.
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Then, think about how much time have you devoted to being a musician during your life relative to how much time spent on the engineering side - I assume quite a bit, right? That's exactly what I'm talking about, whether it's a newbie just starting off, or someone who has been composing for decades, it's still generally much more difficult and requires more time and effort to excel at being a solid, creative writer than it is to learn the technical side. The difference here is that, in your case, you've already gained a disproportionate amount of experience in the musical side, so it comes easier to you now than it did when you started, or than it does for most newbies. So, I maintain that my original point and the advice that I would give to young producers (i.e., you should focus your efforts on the musical side to become successful) would still be the same and would still apply to you. |
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| kitphillips |
| That's true. I guess I'm just saying that the effort given to the two should be balanced so that you don't end up brilliant at one and poor at the other. |
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| music2dance2 |
| Dont follow fashion (or follow suit, however you want to say it). Experiment, be patient and keeping on going till you get to where you want to be. |
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| JOE-SCULLY |
| quote: | Originally posted by music2dance2
Dont follow fashion (or follow suit, however you want to say it). Experiment, be patient and keeping on going till you get to where you want to be. |
another great bit of advice here. short but sweet as they say!! |
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| Anarkey |
| Learn many different genres of music, especially the ones that you love. When you start to mix all of them, it becomes your own style and blend and it will really show. Also, cliche, practice practice practice. If it's something you really want to do, it needs to be your primary focus. |
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| aNYthing |
Start out small and keep it as simple as possible. Having extra gear will break your bank, force you to deal with issues not related to music, waste your time. Master the gear you own before moving on to other stuff. Knowing how to juice and force every bit out of your gear will make you work that much faster. Your equipment should be SIMPLE tools for getting your ideas across. Think of it as simple as "guitar" - you can pick up guitar and record it. Because synth is much more complex, when you start tinkering with it without a clear purpose, you side-track and no work is getting done. Make every minute count. Erase all banks and force yourself to create new sounds.
Finish what you start and force yourself to ACTUALLY FINISH and say "this is it, it's what it is". Organic nature of some tracks will dawn on you much later. It is very hard to appreciate every nuance of your track when you just spent weeks looping a 5 sec samples to glue it together.
Record ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING and have VERIFIED backups of your work. Nothing sucks more than losing one of your best pieces to HD crash. |
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| Vortex_SA |
| quote: | Originally posted by aNYthing
synth is much more complex |
i disagree, on the surface it does look like it, but if you have learned some physics, you'll find that the complexity of the sound a guitar makes is far greater than one made by circuits of a synth :) sure, not modular at all, but a lot more complex... |
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| orTofønChiLd |
| never give up never surrender |
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| pwnage1 |
| Keep your tongue relaxed and open your mouth. Move your tongue in and out of your mouth forwards and in both directions. Practice in five sets of twenty. |
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| Anarkey |
| quote: | Originally posted by pwnage1
Keep your tongue relaxed and open your mouth. Move your tongue in and out of your mouth forwards and in both directions. Practice in five sets of twenty. |
I think he was referring to advice about music.. not about the after-parties. :D |
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| mzvirbulis |
| quote: | Originally posted by zodiac9
Learn to play an instrument, piano, guitar, anything. Learn to improvise on whatever instrument you choose. Join a band or just jam with other musicians, you will learn a lot. Learning an instrument, and being able to improvise on it, is the key to training your ear. You're trying to write music after all. All of the great composers play at least one, or several instruments. |
Yes exactly guys, i have my technical ability going good, but now im all about musicality. This year im learning piano and focusing on music. :)
When people say learn EQ = LEARN WHAT CERTAIN SINUSOIDAL FREQ SOUND LIKE TO YOUR EAR!
And your on your way. |
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