490 Forum Posts by "Bspendlove"
I used to love Hans, but to be honest... I really don't anymore... Anyone who wants to go for this, by all means goodluck...
Piano, just piano... xD
At 1/20/14 12:30 PM, SoundChris wrote:At 1/20/14 05:40 AM, Bspendlove wrote: http://www.mymusictheory.com/for-students/grade-1/grade-1-courseThanks for the link man :D (and for the sibelius link from yesterday!) Think i will work through those theory parts within the next days. Your comments are always very helpful. Thanks a lot!!!
:) I learned how to read the basics from the website, and it's pretty accurate with the Grade exams you can do (they are awesome!) It really helped me, and still I have found out a few things I forgot in the past years of reading music xD
At 1/20/14 12:00 PM, deadlyfishes wrote:At 1/20/14 11:47 AM, Bspendlove wrote: I've not sold my own music, but I have sold my own music library if that counts? xDAudioJungle charges about 7$-12$ USD depending on the length of the track. Also, they offer an "extended license price" which is a little more than twice the regular license price so around 20$-30$+ USD.
I don't know much about AudioJungle what you said, but do they take any secret percentage of your earnings or all of the money goes to you?
They take 50% initially, but when you make certain milestone amounts, I think the first one is 5,000$? Something pretty high, they increase your take a bit more. It will take a while to get to around 75%, but I the demand on AudioJungle seems to be much higher than on iTunes, especially when it comes to commercially focused music like game or soundtrack stuff.
When you are contracted to make music for a certain project, even if you are asked to just tweak or straight up plug in something you've already made, you're essentially just being paid for your time working on that stuff.
Largely funded commercial projects will have more strict rules about what you make or what they license from you. They might ask to buy out one of your tracks, giving them the exclusive right to it, and of course they will ask you to make something that no one else will have the right too as well.
I have sold some music tracks that I made for game developers that didn't ask for exclusive rights to the work I did for them, which has been working out pretty well, since I'm getting the most out of those tracks.
Wow... xD
This isn't being close minded right : -> I just personally think you should think of methods of selling the music with you getting all the money you earn... Why not connect a Paypal account up with your Bank, add a couple of previews or whatever songs to your site -> They buy it if they like it and boom, you send them the file (manually) or preferably through a automated email/download thing....
I've not sold my own music, but I have sold my own music library if that counts? xD
I don't know much about AudioJungle what you said, but do they take any secret percentage of your earnings or all of the money goes to you?
Carefully read and study, make notes in your notepad with a pen... Research it before you go to bed, read specific parts you don't understand over and over again...
Then once you learn some basics, try it at the piano... Focus on what scales, chords look like.... Look at the pattern...
Play some simple pieces (Grade 1)....
The more you read, the better you will get a sight reading (as you are a pianist, so practice, practice and PRACTICE!)...
Once you feel comfortable, go to your local charity shop and ask if they have any sheet music to buy (A lot of charity shops do)...
Just grab 5 books/sheets and go home and try to play them without listening to them...
Don't worry about making mistakes, focus on getting to the end of the piece first, not making everything perfect (a rough quick run through) and then focus on the Rhythmic side and keeping the rhythm...
Practice more
more
and more....
Read....
read more....
You'll notice the difference in your sight reading in your own time, don't push yourself... If you are struggling or getting a weird feeling with reading a lot and not understanding, take a break... I used to push myself to play harder pieces to see if it would improve my sight reading faster.... xD
If you want to read music as a composer/musician/pianist, then keep practicing.... Sort out a timezone that fits you best to sit at the piano: 20 mins Scales, 5 mins Arpeggios, 20mins Improv/Jam, 20mins Techniques....20 mins of reading pieces... Whatever you want to do.... Just fit reading some pieces you have not heard, or even your favorite pieces!
Check out this website, awesome to get some scores from:
Go print of some random scores you have never heard off.... But first look at the sheet, you don't want all Beethoven Sonata's for PianoForte as a starter xD
http://www.mymusictheory.com/for-students/grade-1/grade-1-course
I'm pretty sure you must of watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zCEANXzNxA (You said you already looked into the manual so I guess you might of tried this)
If you haven't then it might help, I don't use EW with Sibelius, I just use the default sounds xD
I only believe in being mature around specific people... If it's someone I completely know, I am totally the opposite to someone who I don't know, I try to make an impression...
Sometimes people get mixed up of maturity in an argument? xD
Don't let your mum or father catch you.
It might be your mother on the other side, so always be ready for things to happen...
At 1/15/14 06:58 PM, CainRedfield wrote: Hey Newgrounds, I need a really solid sounding Harpsichord for an orchestral piece I'm working on. You guys are always amazing with your recommendations, so I'd like to hear what you guys would recommend. I have a Yamaha keyboard that has a really awesome harpsichord setting, and I'm looking for something similar to that, if any of you know what the Yamaha harpsichord sounds like :P
If I know what you mean, I have the same Harpsichord on my Yamaha Digital piano xD I love the sound, and have never found anything online as good as a VST or library.... If you do find one, let me know! ;)
At 1/11/14 08:22 PM, TheZaraLP wrote: I really want to try making music
You don't need software to make music but I know what you mean... xD
Try Mixcraft, Reaper or FL...
At 1/9/14 10:25 PM, MockOff wrote:At 1/9/14 10:01 PM, Tripleton wrote: If you're using a website like SoundCloud, here's what I did:I hate people that do that. It ruins the community doing "like for like" or "follow for follow" stuff. All it does is inflate your stats without getting anyone to actually listen to anything you make. I have 110 followers on soundcloud compared to the 11 I'm following. I'd rather have people who actually want to listen to my music rather than just a big number that means nothing.
After I posted a song, I'd go to a well-known artists page, go to a recent song and follow everybody that liked that song. Trust me, it'll get you started. And if you hit max people you can follow, unfollow and start fresh. :)
I sometimes get followers on Soundcloud who follow me, and then a day later... Unfollow me... It's good to keep a record of the followers, I check mine once a month to see if someone unfollows me...
But the best thing to do on soundcloud is NOT! wait around for followers.... If you want people to listen to your music more, then interact with everyone... I have met a few people through Soundcloud and I even talk to some nearly everyday about Music etc...
If you hear some music on SC, like it? Check the person out and follow them if you like there music specifically.
Leave a comment behind saying what you like about it, a lot of people over at SC will most likely check you out if you actually take interest in them and not check the music they do out for a day and never again...
At 1/9/14 10:01 PM, Tripleton wrote:
unfollow and start fresh. :)
Really? You'll end up getting people that don't actually listen to your music, maybe a few....
But if you do that, unfollow the people who don't follow you back.... Don't just un-follow everyone. xD
At 1/9/14 12:38 PM, Dominic1994r wrote: Anybody got good idea on getting more hits on music?
Make good music
Interact with people
Collab
Make friends
Be nice
Be active on sites
Ask friends to check your music out
Comment on peoples music (Comment/Review)
Make good reviews - About what you like/dislike, what you would of done if you feel like it could be better, what needs improving... etc...
I'm thinking to get them on Ebay resellers. Yeah, I have an old Stormdrum version and loads almost instantly on Kontakt. I do hate the Kompakt. I have the feeling that EW remixed the source code of Kompakt for their clumsy PLAY engine.
Yeah dude, you actually hate Kompakt? All my eastwest are Kompakt and I love them xD
EW did use parts of the Kompakt edition as Ex-NI developers did develop the PLAY engine -.- Although it does have better RR in the play engine (from my experience of listening to demos...) It's hard to get decent, realistic bounces on the Kompakt one (might just be me sucking with the library itself) xD
I have the retailed version of Kontakt. I think Spitfire is the 2nd best choice after EW products. However I'm still confused on the different between versions of Albion.
Don't ask me, I have no clue... xD
You know, if you could find a old version of EW products with Kontakt/Komplete? Edtion, I use them, and they are fine with loading... I ran it perfectly on a Core duo and 4gb ram... xD
But then again, it might be hard to find the old version... My teacher gave me his old collection of some EW products with the older version and I loved it, although I still want to buy Hollywood Strings+Brass with my own money...
How about the Spitfire libraries? (Of course you need Kontakt.. :( )
Just delete them, and if anyone wants it send them it through an email?
I started at 15 :(
2 years ago, my music teacher got sacked and we got a new music teacher... I heard him play piano and I was like... What da!?!?!
So then I had a chat with him and he gave me a Beethoven Piano Sonata book for my Birthday and told me to pick any sonata and learn it... I never knew how to read music, he told me to just sit down at a piano...
The good thing about him was he never forced anything upon my playing abilities, if I had trouble I would ask him... He would show me "how" to do it, he would never "tell" me how it's done... He let me figure it out myself which was always a challenge and good to research.
Although I started making music 2 years ago, I actually started taking Piano more seriously... Then only thing I knew how to play was the piano part in the film "Big", and Apologize by One Republic... Lol
After that week I started talking to him, it literally changed the way how I look at different types of music and my life in front of me... I always wanted to become a footballer or joined the army. Now the dream is to become a Music teacher/Pianist.
I always thought composing got in the way of me and my piano xD It's just 2 different things for me to compose my own piece and then to practice pieces, scales.... I can't sit there and practice every scale, then in 3rds, then in 6ths, arpeggios, then contrary motion scales, then pieces!?!?! for 6 hours a day so composition separates/ gives me a break from my piano although I end up doing a bit of both on piano and at a computer...
Not to mention, after a year into studying he started to introduce music theory and my jaw just dropped to the floor like I have watched that horror movie "The Ring".... I thought, how the heck am I mean't to 1) Read it.... 2) Read it while playing it.... and 3) Read it, while playing it without making mistakes....
I found it hard to sit down and get myself into reading music while at the piano, I sometimes had to force myself to print off pages of music that I have never heard off (Which is good for sight reading!) and play them... Of course, it's shit hard at the start, but then after a thousand pieces, you finally play a piece of music almost perfect and you think "How did I play that?".
Playing music from the sheet IMO is a great feeling. Not that feeling as "Oh, I can read music, and he/she can't... I'm a better pianist/musician". No. The feeling of spending all that time, sitting down and practicing finally appears and shouts in your head "Look!!! You can do it!". And then playing from no sheet, and letting your fingers/heart whatever is good to have a break from all this theory and techniques.
After a few months, I started getting addicted to sitting at my computer and just opening my DAW and recording whatever I hear or have in mind, or normally I have a piece out infront of me which I wrote earlier at the piano. (It's always good to either write your ideas out in notes, as notation or record them I think). Although this kept me away from practicing them Beethoven sonata's (which in the end, I was supposed to learn the whole book... Whooops!), is this my fault, is this the computers fault? "I need to practice piano more.. Scales.... Pieces... I want to be a pianist, not a composer!?!?".
And then about 3 weeks -> a month ago I decided I needed to get rid of what was distracting me... Ok? I will delete all my VST's/Libraries (lul)...
Did it help?
Yes. I regret deleting them, but at the same time, I am practicing piano more often now and it feels great to be back on the piano again for 4 hours a day. The plan for me was to get a job as a pianist in a theater or in a bar/restaurant so I guess that's my 2014/2015 goal.
I won't go on too much, but music changed my life.... I used to play football everyday, now I play piano everyday, I have met a load of other guys who share similar interest (and not so similar!).... actually... Sorry, MUSIC is changing my life... Music changes my life every second, I never used to listen to a lot around me, but now... Whether it's going to the shops, or just getting ready to sleep... I'll always think different because of that teacher.
Yeah ^^ Basically a gate effect, a lot of the time scripted on all the 8Dio's Kontakt libraries (Hybrid libraries etc...)...
If you drag a sample into Kontakt or have a sound on Kontakt you want similar like this, just target the Amp volume to a square envelope and change the Hz to 1/4 (or 1/8, 1/16) etc... If you use Kontakt that is.... It's also cool to play with the Pulse Width of the square wave on the Kontakt envelope, can get some cool outcomes
At 12/25/13 02:55 PM, stunkel wrote:
@Bspendlove
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU HAD ME! That is hilarious honestly. I added you on Skype without even thinking about Secret Santa, and then I started to talk to you about Secret Santa! Not only that but I think I may have reminded you about it XD But I loved the song you made. For the amount of time you spent on it, I think you came out with something amazing. I couldn't have asked for a better song :p Merry Christmas!
XD I got so scared, I thought you knew it was me so you added me on skype... So I was like " Okay, keep it cool..." xD
Glad you enjoyed it :) Just started to get back into playing piano more often :)
@LichLordMusic
I actually loved your song! Love the chord progression, I am sorry to hear you say "I'm pretty uncomfortable making pieces like that in general due to a lack of experience.", I felt bad but I guess that is the best thing about this xD I really think you did a good job and I need to leave some more comments on the song later tonight, just going out now for Christmas Dinner :)
@stunkel
I hope you like it xD I have not had a lot of personal time to record anything as I had trouble with my computer + been majorly busy with working on a new Kontakt library but I wanted to participate in this and I tried to stick with just piano for the description you gave me to work with :)
Merry Christmas! Have a great day everyone :)
I get the (or similar) error too, thought it was my computer...
I upload it and click submit (or publish..) and it says I have to wait for my file to upload, I refresh the page and then I can do it...
I'll be sending mine in tonight :/
At 12/22/13 02:34 PM, SoundChris wrote:
Its possible to do that, but it takes far to much time. He was a genius ... for him anything seems to be just so easy.
Yeah, too much time... If I was to learn, I would want to sit in a room with just a piano.... Nothing else, no doors, no windows... And maybe once every weekend, a doublebassist & drummer would come round... And a fridge full of food of course xD
Btw - there is a 6 part video documentation of him and andre previn. Thats really cool - i think its on youtube, too. There he discusses different jazz styles, interprets styles of other great pianists and makes incredibly nice jokes - he really was an complete artwork and entertainer. Did you know he even was a great jazz singer?
Ohhh, I will look into this! Thanks ;)
A lot of great Jazz pianist tend to be great singers right? From what I have seen, when improvising and using your voice so much to copy it etc...
Oscar literally sings something really bloody difficult and just plays it a split second before he sings it xD
At 12/22/13 02:14 PM, SoundChris wrote:
My favourite piece right now is his version of Round midnight by thelonious monk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7yazIH4rAI
Ahhh so nice..... He is just.... Wow as a pianist
Absolutely amazing. I was learning his version of body and soul last year ... man nothing is more satisfying than to play his kind of runs and chord progressions. Just cant get enough ...
SO MANY chord progression of his but yet when I hear them from someone else, they sound not as good xD The way he chooses the harmonies just in his left hand... Is flipping amazing, have you heard "Little Jazz Exercise"? I have always wanted to learn the left hand for that, where it bounces from the Bass note to a chord.......
My fav technique he mentioned was when people play runs in octaves, but he said he loves doing it in 2 octaves instead of playing in unison on 1 octave, gives it so much character...
Learning his runs just improv a lot for a pianist personally right?
To play his runs = Amazing....
But too play his runs as smooth as that!!!!?!?....... I would give up everything I do to play like that
At 12/22/13 12:46 PM, SoundChris wrote:
Dont know if you are a fan of Jazz - if so check out the pieces of oscar peterson. Maybe the best player and improviser ever!
MAYBE!?!?!?! HE IS F*%KING AWESOME!
I love Oscar so much, my old teacher really reminds me of Oscar when he improvises.... I asked him to play Britney Spears - Opps I did it again (I don't know why....) in the style of a Jazz/Fugue... Oh my, it was mind blowing....
Oscar really helped me out with some techniques when I studied some of his works, C Jam Blues has a lot of licks you can get an idea from....
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At 12/19/13 10:18 PM, Bspendlove wrote:At 12/19/13 11:01 AM, SoundChris wrote: Jazz - because its most interesting for me because of the harmonical chord progressions... to create tensions and solve them in an elegant way is just so exciting :)+1 for Jazz....
One of the best as a pianist to play in a group when improvising.... Takes a lot of learning though, I am no master at it but it's what kept me still playing the piano after 5hour practice everyday classical piano -.-
Not to mention Jazz got me back into reading some classical piano pieces and that Classical is helping me with scales, all chord shapes, etc.....
At 12/19/13 11:01 AM, SoundChris wrote: Jazz - because its most interesting for me because of the harmonical chord progressions... to create tensions and solve them in an elegant way is just so exciting :)
+1 for Jazz....
One of the best as a pianist to play in a group when improvising.... Takes a lot of learning though, I am no master at it but it's what kept me still playing the piano after 5hour practice everyday classical piano -.-
