At 10/8/08 02:43 AM, S3C wrote:

At 10/8/08 02:15 AM, loansindi wrote: Use your ears man. Best way to become a better musician.

When people make unhelpful posts like this it really modulates my synthesizers.

"Use C++ man. Best way to become a better progammer."
"Benchpress 200 pounds man. Best way to become stronger."

lol but its the truth. and its catchy.

the only way to become stronger is to actually do the work and lift them weights.

the only way to get good at c++ is too do c++.

society has brainwashed you into thinking schooling and studying is the only way to ever succeed. when in reality, submitting to the education system in hopes that it will improve your condition, will only make you good at submitting to improve your condition, sometimes until your in the ground.

hope you enjoyed having some truth for breakfast

to the main poster, it will be hard at first, but try transcribing the melodies. you will soon realize just taking the main melody wont have the same effect as all the instruments together in the original song. you will need to learn to pick out chords too, basslines, rpy thingies. the best wy to learn to transcribe them is to...well you guessed it, transcribe them lol.

iv transcribed at least 50+ melodies, and it gets easier and you go along, trust me. in the end you will be able to make your own melodies and progressions easier as you realize patterns in melodic progressions and such.

I intuitively know melodic progressions and such now simply from dissecting and remaking so many melodies and songs.

so my response, try transcribing it, and dont worry if you get it wrong, it took me 3+ years to get where im at XD

SNAAAAAYYYKKK!

didnt even break a sweat

define modulation. like flanger? that woolooloolooloo lfo type sounding thingy?

as you may or may not know, it is neodrummers birthday. hes legal now, chronamut, and other homosexuals on this website, but hands off, neo is mine XD

HAPPY BDAY NEO!

people have a built in music part of their brain. when you listen to a song, you know whether or not it sounds good. you just know. music theory is the breakdown of what amkes something "sound good"

when joe average listens to song, he knows what sounds good and what sounds bad. when johnny theory expert listens, he knows what sounds good too.

a major difference is johnny holds the music to much higher accountability. he is much more concerned with quality, originality, and blahblahblah, cuz hes made and listened to so much music.

joe on the other hand could care a less about that shit. as long as it sounds decent, and not too simalar to anything else hes heard(in the near past that is:) he knows what souns good and what doesnt.

the trick is making music artists and joe average can appreciate together :D

At 10/5/08 08:25 PM, Elfire wrote:

I never called people stupid for liking simple music, I criticized them for not being able to see most aspects of the music.

i think everyone has a good understanding of what sounds musically interesting but theres also music that focuses on pasion and intensity which is alot more enjoyable to some people than a slightly sharper timbre for a few bars.

i for one, am one of those people, but i can understand the dynamics and colour of your submission though you would see me in the electronica section if i had a choice. as personally i find the stuff on there less repetitive.

people have a built in music part of their brain. when you listen to a song, you know whether or not it sounds good. you just know. music theory is the breakdown of what amkes something "sound good"

At 10/5/08 07:00 PM, CosmoVibe wrote: If you don't know what the Roman numerals mean, you should study a bit more about music theory before attempting to compose something, since this is extremely basic. The numbers represent scale tone chords; capitals being major and lower-case being minor.

lol, you don't NEED to know any music theory to make music. I sure as hell don't know that much, let alone what the numerals mean. Never took a music theory course worth anything.

At 10/5/08 07:00 PM, CosmoVibe wrote: Of course, even if you have a good structure developed, you still need to have a beautiful melody to begin with. One of biggest factors that determine how good a melody is developed is your chord progressions. Don't stick to simple ones that everyone has used, such as:
[ I vi IV V ] or [ i VI iv V/v]
[ i VI III VII ]
[ I/i - VI VII ]
[ I - IV V] or [ i - iv VII ]
[ I V vi IV ] or [ i v VI iv ]

My old music was the same riff over and over again. eventually i realized my music was repetitive as balls. so i made different sections, same melodic progression. then i tried having different melodic variations in each part. and I hit the sweet spot :)

pop progressions for the win.

but could I ask. could someone make a little tutorial where they go through each of the major melodic progressions and play with one instrument all the root notes. Maybe a little audio thing say.

[ I vi IV V ] or [ i VI iv V/v]
[ i VI III VII ]
[ I/i - VI VII ]
[ I - IV V] or [ i - iv VII ]
[ I V vi IV ] or [ i v VI iv ]

say "this is 1-6-4-5" then play the root notes

major or minor doesn't matters. Its incredibly easy to take nay of these proggresions and switch the scale from major to minor

what the hell key is this in. and since i know no music theory, could i get a sample of the song so i know what key I should make this in

At 10/2/08 09:51 AM, TMM43 wrote: I think you've misread the second review. They're saying that advertising in a review of other people's songs is repulsive.

I don't think they were saying your review was repulsive. Just the fact that you advertised in a review.

I highly doubt that a simple link in a review would piss people off to the point where the review. either that. people are lazy.

this is aassuming these guys arent just trolls, and there never was a review.

person number one says i "called the music trash" then advertised, which set me off.

don't delete it. You might cause a system meltdown

At 10/1/08 09:46 AM, Chronamut wrote:

At 10/1/08 09:37 AM, Bjra wrote: HOLY BAJESSUS, chronamut is barely legal now.

rofl :P

hey im only a quarter of a century old... :P

haha happy birthday man

HOLY BAJESSUS, chronamut is barely legal now.

At 9/30/08 09:23 PM, reaper-of-ratings wrote: the thing is - do you care what 1% of the population has - some snobby people with monitors that says "omg this sounds terrible" - or do you care what 99% of the world thinks who use less fancy things?

I listen to everything with headphones - tbh I dont CARE how it sounds on monitors, simply because I don't use them. You don't need monitors man.

ALL professional setups have monitors. these are the dude churning out the hits. most of the time hits have generic progressions. the key thing is they sound good on multiple sound setups, because of the uncolored response.

for uncolored reference headphones, you could buy comparable monitors

haha zellers, you always make me feel better, with your awesome trance music and soothing posts.

Alright, I am seriously pissed.

I have received two reviews saying the following.

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Boo to the ads. U give out."
by: SnowVros1050
date: 3 hours ago

Find another way to have ur music heard. U better apologize to them. U spoil there music and say its trash. This was only a good job. Not a great one.

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Advertisting."
by: MishapsConundrum
date: 8 hours ago

Quit advertising on other peoples audios its repulsive, 7/10 for me having to find this on a comment on someone elses audio.

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what the fuck. I never posted any vulgar advertisements. EVER. and now I'm getting shit for it. I think some guy is posting vulgar shit, advertising my music.

I pm'ed both of these guys asking for the review advertisements in question. I aint taking this shit sitting down.

has this happened to anyone else.

At 9/28/08 09:04 PM, Rig wrote: Monitors would only give you your money's worth if you had them in a specially treated (aka expensive) room. For the poor composer, I recommend headphones :)

Headphones are good, but you lose one important thing. Stereo separation. That and that you will most likely crank up the volume, which will fuck up your hearing in the long term.

I have a 99$ pair of m-audio AV-30's

they are nearfield monitors, so your room doesn't matter. They sound amazing for 99 dollars, I highly recommend them.

I personally like monitors better than headphones. I've used both. With monitors you get less ear fatigue. this means you can make music for longer periods of time

At 9/25/08 11:51 PM, war-spawn wrote: I agree. KEEP IT UP, AND YOU SHALL GET LAID WITH THE A-BOT.

No seriously, the A-Bot is the audio's dirty slut. We <3 it.

*cough* ahem

I want to submit my coolest song yet:

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1 72678

i actually invested about 100 bucks into m-audio av-30's

I highly recomend them to anyone who wants some cheap, and pretty decent monitors

"you lik uh duh boyz"

At 9/18/08 07:58 PM, Chronamut wrote: dudes stop turning my thread into a fucking stat thread!

ur just jealous of the size of my e-penis

At 9/18/08 03:15 PM, TMM43 wrote: pshhh that's nothing.

well ur music is actually good

my penis is alot bigger than taht actually. well my epenis that is...

pushing the envelope. Ill show you pushing the envelope.

lol wut

I started making music dicking around. and my earliest stuff sucked.

but then i saw b0unc3s stuff, and paragonx9's, and i wanted that fame on ng. so i slowly started working to improve my sound.

But what i really enjoy, is when i get into the groove, and start making an amazing song. weve aall felt that. if i get that every 15 songs, making music is well worth it.

I LOVE that feeling!

At 9/13/08 11:15 PM, Rawmin wrote:

At 9/13/08 11:11 PM, IamMajik wrote: don't reply easy as that...

Search before posting, easy as that...

rawmin speaks the truth

and i like top raumin so im with rawmin on this issue

Where would I start on a search for video game companies looking for musicians?

I want to be hired by a video game label as an on board musician who makes music for, well, soundtracks on video games

Where should I look. I know companies out there are looking for me, but several google searches have brought me nothing.

Does anyone know companies looking for someone like me, who can produce quality video game music on order. I've already produced almost an entire video game soundtrack and have lots of experience in this area.

Where should I look. Who could I contact. Do you guys know of any opportunities?

stealing music ftl