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That would be Free Form Jazz.

At 12/26/12 06:06 PM, MaskedGuardian wrote: That would be Free Form Jazz.

For jazz musicians, probably. But to the rest of us non-jazz producers, it looks pretty damn hard.

As many people have said before me, it's all based on what you as a person think is the easiest. Personally, I think Hip Hop is easy as fuck. Find a sample, scrounge around for a break (cut-up or un-cut), add a bassline, maybe some hook vocals, rinse and repeat.

Hardstyle.

1) Add a 4x4 synthesized drum kick
2) Add a simple melody break
3) Repeat 1) and 2)
4) ???
5) Profit

I'd have to agree with hip-hop as being the easiest genre to "make", simply because you don't need as much skill in mastering the more technical aspects of production in comparison.

...obviously, you'll have to spend a lot of time crafting your lyrics and making them have at least a somewhat fitting rhythm ("somewhat" because even now, some rap artists like to stagger very far off quantized rhythms quite a bit).

At 12/26/12 06:06 PM, MaskedGuardian wrote: That would be Free Form Jazz.

I don't really like Jazz, but drumming for Jazz is quite hard.

I think it would be rap, or country.

As mentioned before (by me) Lowercase, which is practically low volume recording of... nothing.
The album that define the style is actually recording of paper being handled, so, the process goes like this:
1 - get a microphone (or if your default laptop microphone is not very noisy, use that one)
2 - get some papers, a book or something
3 - hit "record" button and turn pages every 2-3 minutes.

As for rap or country being simple, come on, Miles Davis has a rap album, Snoop Dog recorded also with jazz legend Clark Terry, and I've heard pretty bad-ass country guitar players. Definitely, not easy.
Whatever you do good and you put a lot of passion in it, it will be not easy. Every style of music require to understand and master it's vocabulary, which is taking time and effort.
For that also pop music is hard to make, because you'll have to listen to a lot of it to "catch" the style, and that's an effort already.

At 12/27/12 05:48 PM, sorohanro wrote: As mentioned before (by me) Lowercase, which is practically low volume recording of... nothing.

I agree with this. Lowercase is by far the easiest, but it's not well known, so it wouldn't be an obvious answer like hip-hop.

Is it weird that I'm great at making metal, but I can't make hip hop beats? :/

Just because something sucks doesn't mean it's easy to do.

That one genre that I really dislike. You know the one? Man that shit's awful. I bet they don't even try.

All these "x genre is so easy to make, just do y and z and you're done" posts are missing the point.

You can make music in any genre you want in five minutes if you wanted to, but depending on your level of understanding of composition, mixing, mastering, and overall musical knowledge, the end result will vary drastically from person to person. You're also ignoring the fact that different types of music require different skills, not to mention that all major genres have music ranging from minimalist to complex pieces. It's not about which genre of music is the easiest to produce anyway (or at least I don't think it should be), it's about what you like listening to and would like to make yourself.

And if you stick to your comfort zone, then you're not really challenging yourself and growing as a musician. At the end of the day, it's not about learning how to make something decent, it's about mastering whatever you're focusing on, and it's a long way to accomplish that.

I'd say Hardstyle. For the most part it all sounds the same, and just involves a grinding kick and a huge saw.

At 12/25/12 11:03 AM, ZipZipper wrote:

At 12/25/12 08:52 AM, Yoshiii343 wrote:

At 12/25/12 08:45 AM, sorohanro wrote: Lowercase probably.

To be fair, all form of minimalist music (extreme or not) is pretty easy.

I dunno...handling a piece of paper is about as easy as it gets. A lot of minimalist pieces are way more complex than that.

true^

At 12/25/12 11:03 AM, ZipZipper wrote:

At 12/25/12 08:52 AM, Yoshiii343 wrote:

At 12/25/12 08:45 AM, sorohanro wrote: Lowercase probably.

To be fair, all form of minimalist music (extreme or not) is pretty easy.

I dunno...handling a piece of paper is about as easy as it gets. A lot of minimalist pieces are way more complex than that.

true

At 12/25/12 11:47 AM, DivoFST wrote:

Not complaining about that, actually most form of "Extreme art" are laughable before it can be appreciated and sometimes it cant even pass the funny phase, I had to hear The Mars Volta Cds 3 or 4 times before my stupid brain could grasp how awesome they are.

LOL. I wouldn't have survived highschool without Deloused In The Comatorium. I feel really bad for people that can't enjoy some good old mars volta but uhhhh, this forum isn't about discusing the apreciation of music sooooo....

Ambient. I LOVE to hate the genre. I just can't stand listening to music when it sounds like one fucking note. Sure, you can get complex with programming it but if it still just sounds like one note, what was the fucking point of all that patching? As for people saying that it "relaxes them" meh. Heavy metal relaxes me. It's conditioning. The more you listen to a genre the more you'll like it... unless it's ambient. In which case you're still just listening to one note.

Ambient: simple music for simple people.

At 12/26/12 08:08 AM, Axel7 wrote:

At 12/25/12 11:59 PM, jpbear wrote:

slower bpm

No joke, the last time I tried to burn a cd of my DNB stuffs all the songs came out in super slow motion. I think the next five songs I write will actually be the last five songs I wrote :p

Well, it depends on the person's skills, and technologies that are available for him/her.
For me, the easiest would be Trance. Assuming that I never heard of the genre "lowercase" before.

I'll name trance. I will exclude all kinds of "exotic" genres (lowercase, hardstyle, etc.) which I'd just slander to hell and back for how simple they are.
Don't get me wrong here, I like good trance. Just that bad trance is easy to make. All one needs is 4/4 time sig, puncy kick, synthes... Really, although not many of my trance tracks have turned out well, they are, to me, still easiest to make.

At 12/29/12 07:15 AM, Jernemies wrote: I'll name trance. I will exclude all kinds of "exotic" genres (lowercase, hardstyle, etc.) which I'd just slander to hell and back for how simple they are.
Don't get me wrong here, I like good trance. Just that bad trance is easy to make. All one needs is 4/4 time sig, puncy kick, synthes... Really, although not many of my trance tracks have turned out well, they are, to me, still easiest to make.

Trance is weird because its easy to make bad trance but incredibly fucking hard to make good trance.

trance is pretty easy. Requires close to no skill and sounds good too. Problem is , nobody listens it anymore

to everybody talking to trance: you know trance is a macrogenre, right?
We're not talking about apples, bananas or oranges, but about fruits. Still today it's hard to say if a track belongs to trance or not...

And don't let me think about people who call it techno, lol

Modern Country. Ha ha ha ha