Even repeating 8 bars of melody can be a big hit, if the melody is good - like Ievan polkka - recorded by many artists over the years (even...
There is no difference between composing electronic and traditional music... You probably don't know much about traditional arranging and...
Compose the whole thing one line at a time (start from the bass or melody, then add the melody or bass, then add the inner parts) and then chose...
Drums sound bad (lifeless rhythm), composition goes nowhere
Banning electronic and foreign music will only make them more popular. I guess you haven't lived in Eastern Europe when the Western music was...
Repackaged Symphobia... New stuff, lol...
Bernstein likes to oversimplify and presents incorrect or super subjective information in his lectures. There are better educational resources...
The piano roll and the synths (Harmor, Harmless, Sytrus etc) are some of the best. The rest of the DAW is crap.
Read any good orchestration manual and check the avaliable positions and fingerings for the 4 strings. I think that some libraries from Spitfire...
There are no secrets... It's probably decent only if you are just starting with the production. But don't forget: you may become decent producer,...
Pretty naive view. We have shit music, because the contemporary composers/lyricist are mostly talentless/lazy, not because they have to make...
And why is the music not melody oriented? Because the public doesn't like melodies? Or coming with a good melody is way harder than using the...
Gershwin was a student of Schillinger and his mathematical system of composing. He was basically doing all the fiddling in his head or on paper,...
"Chord planing" sounds like shit using temperament like meantone, werckmeister, young and others. If you think about it, the classical/baroque...
Well, there are some factors like novelty, complexity, virtuosity, lightness, cultural message and so on. It's easy to spot when something is just...
Well, Davis is directly ripping off Penderecki, Varese, Lutoslawski and John Adams in the trilogy. I have yet to hear his opera, Beethoven's...
Get Pianoteq, if you are after something that behaves and sounds like a real piano. If you are after already produced sound, check Cinesamples -...
You can hear the 20th century "avantgarde" in the horror, action, thriller, mystery and similar movies... ("The Matrix" trilogy had one of the...
Try playing with 5et (pentatonic shape ), 7et ( it's dorian scale, but slightly retuned), 8et (octatonic, some of the steps need to to tuned), 10...
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