Off the Wall - Season 4, Episode 12: BenTibbetts on the Advanced Art of Music Production

SYNOPSIS: @BenTibbetts talks shares his lifelong passion for music and how creating music has helped him find happiness. We explore what music means to him, the qualities he looks for in a piece, and the balance between similarity and novelty.

Music by @Animattronic: https://animattronic.ca

NG EVENTS

APR. 21st - Art-Inspired Music Contest Starts

MAY 6th - Pico Day

JUN. 19th - Art-Inspired Music Contest Deadline

JUN. 23rd - Too Many Games Meetup

TOPICS

- Music as lifelong passion, integral to mental health

• Making creative work for better mental health, problem solving, creating to get a sense of control

- What is music?

- The qualities you would like to see in a piece?

• Circumstantial
• Similarity vs. Novelty

- Approach to teaching music

• Learning to articulate thoughts better
• Putting yourself in the shoes of the learner
• Every lesson is a little different

- The Pentatonic Scale

• Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
• "Amazing Grace" in a pentatonic scale
• "Lord of the Rings: Sound of The Shire" in a pentatonic scale

- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

• BenTibbetts Podcast #3: The War of Art

• The Book in Three Sentences

"Resistance"

• Making yourself a schedule
• Lowkey intensity as a job

- Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

• The Ceramics Class and Quantity Before Quality

- The "Super Mario Rule"

• How good would you be in a video game if you only allowed to play one time?

- The Habits of Effective Artists

- Should Artists have to believe in themselves?

• What do you want to do?

- Techniques for encouraging creativity for oneself and other people

• Metaphor: there are 2 people. The Author. The Editor

- Getting over writers block

• Accepting being bad, you have to love being bad.
• Learning about yourself and learning what you like
• Discovering what you'll find valuable
• Learning from scars

- Ben's experience with injury

- How Ben created composers music

- The future of music?

- Music as a reflection of one's personality?

- How always wearing a big red hat affects your personality?

- Ben's Fashion sense

- How diet affects your life

• The dangers of microplastics in processed food

- Terrance Shider

• Terrance Shider Take 5 Piano Cover

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