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I'm not special.

But everyone here is.

Does that make me special.

OH THE PHILOSOPHY

I added vibrato to a piano. Plus I spent half an hour behind school recording the sound of the storm, and then recording the drip drop of the wet patch in the toilets. Of course, I had to cut down these fifteen minute recordings to just the best fifteen seconds and then fade this in and out only to get ZERO BOMBED THE FUCK OUT OF!

I also add auto wahs, chorus and tremolo to random loops that were fine before! I also add an auto-filter to a bass drum track to get an incredible "thump" for the odd drum n bass number, the only existing example being my House Of The Rising Sun remix, which i am now wondering whether to delete due to intense zero bombing. Whilst not wierd, it gets quite a powerful effect.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 15033- Vibrato piano.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 25497- How unnecessary effects can change the soul of the song.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 31160- Hardcore bass cut in half way through and watery recordings!

And I remixed 300, but thats not weird anymore!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 30242- THIS IS SPARTA!

give old music new life with guitars and distortion

I can make shit samples sound half-decent, plus most of what I know about music theory was self taught with little help from others, although the foundations of much of my knowledge came from little notes around the AF, and I built upon that.

What makes me special?

I can't think of anything...

So maybe I'm not.

What makes me special is that when I've started on a song, completed in half trough, I start on a new one. The reuslt: A shit load of WiP's :/

It's not that often I complete a track, but if I do it usually takes me about 2-4 days.

Ooh, dunno if this is special, but I mostly start with a bassline, and the make a melody based on the bassling. Then drums and perc.

My mommy tells me I'm special in a certain way too, never figured out in which way :(

I make the best metal around. Period.No one is better than me, and if so, prove it.

(just playing...I'm not that much of a jerk)

but I make some pretty cool music I guess. Studying to be a mixer/audio engineer, yay.

What makes me so special is my generic song structure.

Where did I learn my secret? From this instructional song.

As a bonus it also contains instructions on how to dj, thats where I learned that from too.

i make music most of newgrounds hates :)

At 4/20/09 01:56 PM, AKACCMIOF wrote: I added vibrato to a piano.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 15033- Vibrato piano.

Not particularly special... that and the song doesn't have vibrato on the piano... only painful pitch bending.

Ow? NOT my cup of tea...

At 4/20/09 04:45 PM, Krussi wrote: What makes me special is that when I've started on a song, completed in half trough, I start on a new one. The reuslt: A shit load of WiP's :/

It's not that often I complete a track, but if I do it usually takes me about 2-4 days.

As my music instructor says, "A Composer's Best Friend is the Trash Can." And it's true - the number of pieces I start and then scrap is pretty unbelievable: I have ~170 "WiPs" and about 20 completed compositions (not including various short pieces like impromptus and two-part inventions.)

I have multiple little things I like to do a lot to my music.

One thing I do a LOT is pitch shift the hell out of anything and everything. A lot of times I'll just record the radio in my parents' car and pitch shift, distort, and granulize it.

At 4/20/09 09:14 PM, poopr1221 wrote: I have multiple little things I like to do a lot to my music.

One thing I do a LOT is pitch shift the hell out of anything and everything. A lot of times I'll just record the radio in my parents' car and pitch shift, distort, and granulize it.

Well that's the good thing for composers - once you have a theme, there are so many things you can do to reuse it and change it in such a way that most people wouldn't be able to guess it's the same motif.

Something different I do...hmm. I'd have to say when making a main melody or lead, I build off those notes using the same instrument. If it sounds good, I'll make a new instrument with the notes I added. Repeat and vuala, I got a song. It helps to keep notes in key with each other and adds a nice variety to it also.

Wow, lots of AF newbies on this thread. (and forum newbies in general)

What's up with that?

Special, huh? I might be the only person with bipolar disorder in this thread.

I totally qualify.

I'm an absurdist with an amon tobin complex.

Also, bipolar? Don't think I'd like that very much. I enjoy having the way I feel under my control.

I'm Zenon :)

Zenon is slang for "my penis is a big, literal part of my music".

I'm an NG audio moderator. Now how much people can say that? huh!? HUH!? HUUUH!? >:C

Also, I spill beer on my guitar and smash it on the keyboard in order to make lovely metal music. You should see the beers running, oh what fun we've had in the bakery.

At 4/20/09 08:38 PM, HalcyonicFalconX wrote: Not particularly special... that and the song doesn't have vibrato on the piano... only painful pitch bending.

Ow? NOT my cup of tea...

Hahahaha, sorry about that! I found it a bit special, I mean I know it's not ORIGINAL but most music on Newgrounds (though not all) tends not to prepare the instruments or use extended techniques.

Though there might be a reason for that.

Very, VERY good topic. Been interesting to read. Must admit. Well when I do my music I must say that I don't do musch that other people doesn't do. Well, it's hard to say like this.

If there is something I do, it is to live on the feeling. I cannot create songs sometimes, but just by incident it happens. Almost every good song I've done is done in a row, without breaks. Sitting in front of FL-Studio for hours. My projects may not be the biggest though, Haven't done anything bigger than a 6-7 hour project. Please do check my songs and tell me if anything is special, would be epic :)

At 4/21/09 12:59 AM, Erkie wrote: I'm an absurdist with an amon tobin complex.

Also, bipolar? Don't think I'd like that very much. I enjoy having the way I feel under my control.

Honestly, it helps my creativity a lot. Powerful emotions turns out powerful music.

Not the shit I have submitted now, though. Don't listen to that. It's trash.

At 4/21/09 02:47 AM, Erkie wrote: Zenon is slang for "my penis is a big, literal part of my music".

Man, if you can't hear the penis in my songs you've gone mad!

I'd rather focus on technical content than musical content.

At 4/19/09 07:39 PM, Kaizerwolf wrote: On a serious note (no pun please...) i do most of my drum work first, the build off of that. Most artists have told me to start with the melodies first, but i find that hard to do. :P

Me too :O

At 4/21/09 09:26 AM, DarKsidE555 wrote: I'm an NG audio moderator. Now how much people can say that? huh!? HUH!? HUUUH!? >:C

*raises hand*

Also, to instill a little deja vu: I'm special, because I fucking tell you I am.

No, I try to make music that I would listen to, if I wasn't me. So far I fail. But I'm still trying.

I actually am the best .-.

I find that slitting the throats of babies makes a really good sound.

At 4/23/09 06:07 PM, DSMagnum wrote: I find that slitting the throats of babies makes a really good sound.

The sound of the slice or the cries of the infant?