737

(8 replies, posted in General Discussion)

it's not about stars... it's about mars.. we are martians wink

738

(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

(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

(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.

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.. heart you guys. keep up the good work.

742

(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

(7 replies, posted in General Discussion)

haha awesome.. i look forward to hearing the fønk

chame?

745

(165 replies, posted in General Discussion)

word yo!

746

(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 :<

The end of the world, of course.

748

(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

hmm interesting selection. I'd be curious as to what you'd have to say about my track wink

749

(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

(24 replies, posted in General Discussion)

you could make the zip based on what people set their license to.. also the download ability.

751

(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

(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