it's not about stars... it's about mars.. we are martians
737 January 31, 2012 5:19 am
Re: WeeklyBeats 2012- Week 3 Round-Up (8 replies, posted in General Discussion)
738 January 24, 2012 11:03 pm
Re: Music theory Q and A (14 replies, posted in General Discussion)
oh.. one more thing... to underscore what others have said.. do NOT let music theory dominate your music.. Having learned lots of music theory, I often wish that I had never learned it. It makes being creative difficult. Only use it as a loose guideline.. Let your ears,thoughts and emotions dominate.. not knowledge.
739 January 24, 2012 10:58 pm
Re: Music theory Q and A (14 replies, posted in General Discussion)
also.. as far as relationships between chords goes... I try to look at less and less about being in a key and more and more about voice leading. Generally. If a chord has a common tone with the next chord then it is 9 times out of 10 going to sound right. Also, if one or more of the notes is a leading note (a semitone below or a full tone above) to the next chord. it wll sound ok. If you want to follow a classical approach.. then jumping by 5ths or 4ths is the way to go. It is important to understand that 4ths are always the 5th of another key, so it is possible to modulate to a different key using the 4th of one key as though it is the 5th of another. Also.. the major 3rd is always the dominant of the relative major/minor of whatever key you are in. That is an easy way to modulate between the two.
740 January 24, 2012 10:45 pm
Re: Music theory Q and A (14 replies, posted in General Discussion)
actually. the question about determining what key something is in is more complicated that it sounds. Check out this dissertation... http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~echew/papers/Di
tation.pdf
basically what a key is, is the percieved Tonal center of a given section of music. The tonal center is the function that all of the other harmonic functions have tension towards.
741 January 23, 2012 7:35 pm
Re: WEEK 03 - Is reality sinking in yet?! (46 replies, posted in General Discussion)
My song was OK this week. I always end up waiting until the last minute and rushing. Im sad that more people didnt comment on my track.. it seems like there are a few people that get all the comments because everyone already loves them and then everyone else gets nothing :<. I think my favorite track this week was a not so commented track by 'protman'. it was creative and different and made me physically get out of my bed to comment on it. anyways.. you guys. keep up the good work.
742 January 23, 2012 3:00 pm
Re: Polyphasic sleep patterns (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
dunno. i sometimes take a nap for lunch at work.. no one has ever said anything to me about it.
743 January 18, 2012 1:07 am
Re: I Had A Dream... (7 replies, posted in General Discussion)
haha awesome.. i look forward to hearing the fønk
744 January 17, 2012 9:44 am
Re: In regards to the music being chiptune or otherwise... (28 replies, posted in General Discussion)
chame?
745 January 16, 2012 9:59 pm
Re: Weekly Beats Torrent Thread (165 replies, posted in General Discussion)
word yo!
746 January 16, 2012 6:07 pm
Re: WEEK 02: How did it go? (33 replies, posted in General Discussion)
yeah.. i didnt put much effort into mine either.. i had a rad track I was working on. but it was too ambitious so i made a quick track with no beats. thusly, no one has commented :<
747 January 10, 2012 8:42 pm
Re: Why is the square for the 51st darker than all the other? (5 replies, posted in Site Help)
The end of the world, of course.
748 January 10, 2012 8:38 pm
Re: Weekly Beats Week 1 Round-Up (5 replies, posted in General Discussion)
hmm interesting selection. I'd be curious as to what you'd have to say about my track
749 January 10, 2012 10:17 am
Re: Calling Postmodern Magicians (25 replies, posted in General Discussion)
i noticed that there was a song that was an ode to Richard Dawkins who is a self proclaimed militant atheist. I wonder if I should send out a call for casting doubt upon believers.
750 January 9, 2012 7:00 am
Re: Zip of weekly files (24 replies, posted in General Discussion)
you could make the zip based on what people set their license to.. also the download ability.
751 January 9, 2012 4:15 am
Re: Week 01 - How did we all fare? (75 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I had like 3 false starts and ended up going with my initial starting track.. I am medium ok with my submission.. wished i would have had more time to master it, but I was exhausted by the time it came time for that. I spent all of like 4 minutes mastering hehe. The track itself turned out rougher than I would have liked. This week I wont wait until the last minute to finish and I will probably go with the first track I start.
752 January 6, 2012 10:24 pm
Re: Mastering/Post-production Tips? (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
oh. and speaking of izotope ozone. they have a decent PDF on mastering on their site. http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/o asp#guides
also. i recommend the book "Mastering Audio - The art and the science" by Bob Katz http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Audio-S 0240808371