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The difficulty of simplicity
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| Mr.Mystery |
I started out with the intention of doing a simplistic techno track with a deep bassline and some slowly evolving pads. Now I'm sitting here with a thunderous peak time track.
Is this a "problem" for anyone else? How can I restrict myself from throwing everything I can think of into a track? |
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| Innocence Lost |
| Oh dear, hm.. |
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| tehlord |
| Step away from the DAW |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| I forgot we don't talk about songwriting here. |
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| Raphie |
make choices, combine the parts that match together and support build-up
agree on your drop and bin the rest.
IMHO the best tracks have great percussion, a bassline, a pluck lead, some stabs and some vibe supporting atmo FX. that's it. |
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| TranceLover007 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Raphie
make choices, combine the parts that match together and support build-up
agree on your drop and bin the rest.
IMHO the best tracks have great percussion, a bassline, a pluck lead, some stabs and some vibe supporting atmo FX. that's it. |
IMHO the best track have great melodic vibe - memorable hook ;)
Darek |
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| Raphie |
| Yes, depending on genre, in techno it's more about the vibe of the 16 bars than a melody, a chord or arp is often more aimed at rythmik support then playing a melody |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by Raphie
Yes, depending on genre, in techno it's more about the vibe of the 16 bars than a melody, a chord or arp is often more aimed at rythmik support then playing a melody |
That's just the thing - I can't seem to be able to think that way. I guess I've been making trance and breaks for too long. |
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| evo8 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
I started out with the intention of doing a simplistic techno track with a deep bassline and some slowly evolving pads. Now I'm sitting here with a thunderous peak time track.
Is this a "problem" for anyone else? How can I restrict myself from throwing everything I can think of into a track? |
yes, always a problem but ive become better at not adding unnecessary stuff into a track. You just have to have confidence that the track is holding its own with a simple groove, its about little catchy infrequent percussion, little fx, vox whatever
i love listening to stripped back stuff like that but there is plenty of stuff that is boring as well...a fine line....... |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
I forgot we don't talk about songwriting here. |
We do.
Step away from the DAW was a legitimate idea. |
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
Step away from the DAW |
Good advice that I need to do more often... |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
We do.
Step away from the DAW was a legitimate idea. |
That's about as useful as the advice Dr. Phil gives.
"I have a problem with thing X."
"Then don't do thing X."
"Thank you dr. Phil, you've changed my life!" |
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