also checking the production credits it looks like most of the songs I said sounded like they had Yume Nikki samples are actually by either Childish Major or DunDeal, neither of whom I've ever heard of (they might be Brick Squad people?)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
^^^ You made me laugh until I coughed
Which isn't exactly hard when I have a cold but still
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
One thing I always noticed about Encyclopedia Brown stories, even as a kid: you can often guess what the "solution" is by paying attention to which things get unnecessarily detailed descriptions
Like, if they say someone pulled out a notebook, you're fine, but if they specify that someone pulled a notebook out of his left breast pocket, you can bet that which pocket it was in will be a "clue"
there's like a lot of music that people who have similar listening habits to mine like that i just don't
like i've tried getting into autechre like 5 million times
and oneohtrix point never and tim whositsface and all those other drone dudes just get a huge meh out of me
i've tried mount kimbie and SBTRKT and neither of them have stuck, and after the 100 odd spins Burial stopped grabbing me completely
indie rock almost always grates on me to a mind-boggling degree, punk almost always puts me to sleep
i don't listen to enough metal to be like a metalhead, and the stuff that i like is all like avant-garde black metal and slam and some deathcore too but w/e
idk i just wanna be more normal-ish or something, like i wanna be able to find a sound that grabs me consistently that does not sound like "someone murdering a dolphin" or "a bunch of random banging noises" or "really awful"
because man music is my most favorite thing and i wanna tell people about all the cool shit i find and i can't most of the time and tbh it's kinda lonely out here
i got into music in the first place because everyone listened to music on their iPods and stuff and they had their band t-shirts and they talked about it all the time and i wanted to be cool for once in my life
even now i sit around on tumblr dinking around pressing play on all the audio posts with whatever faceless female fronted indie band or nicki minaj or fall out boy whatever there is and i wanna know what it is like they hear, what is it that makes these things what they chose to make the soundtracks of their lives and i just do not hear it and it all rushes by in this huge indistinguishable blur of major chords and upbeat drums and young love and money and dancing
even now i sit around on tumblr dinking around pressing play on all the audio posts with whatever faceless female fronted indie band or nicki minaj or fall out boy whatever there is and i wanna know what it is like they hear, what is it that makes these things what they chose to make the soundtracks of their lives and i just do not hear it and it all rushes by in this huge indistinguishable blur of major chords and upbeat drums and young love and money and dancing
well you must understand that most people--even most people who have a good grasp of music theory--don't listen to music *as* its component parts. But that seems to only be half of your problem.
That last sentence in the thing you quotedseems like the OP is complaining about happy music being shallow or lifeless or something. (Disclaimer: It's 5:43 AM, I've been up watching L&O all night, and so I may not be understanding it correctly...)
That last sentence in the thing you quotedseems like the OP is complaining about happy music being shallow or lifeless or something. (Disclaimer: It's 5:43 AM, I've been up watching L&O all night, and so I may not be understanding it correctly...)
that is something Naney said was bothering him about the way he perceives music specifically.
unfortunately because his username has an accent in it vanilla refuses to quote him correctly.
why am I incapable of making songs progress properly instead of just sort of flail about.
here try what i do:
you get like this loop set up with all you instruments and whatever try to get it to 12 or so bars long by adding little variations and repeating parts (*the bars are the little numbers on the top of where you place the pattern clip things btw*)
now move that loop 20-40 bars down, then select the loop and ctrl+b until you have your song as long as you want it to be.
in that 20-40 bar gap (*you might want shorter as you are not making the same music i am*) before the loop kicks in you have your intro! your best bet is to start with a simpler version of the drum part in your main loop, then have a bassline kick in, and keep adding things until it builds up to the loop. it's gonna sound clunky as hell, but bear with me here
start listening to your track where the loop starts, and keep listening until it gets boring. at the place where it gets boring, replace your drum part with the simpler version you used in the intro and get rid of a buncha stuff. repeat this simpler part for about half as long as you repeated the main loop, then repeat the main loop again.
why am I incapable of making songs progress properly instead of just sort of flail about.
here try what i do:
you get like this loop set up with all you instruments and whatever try to get it to 12 or so bars long by adding little variations and repeating parts (*the bars are the little numbers on the top of where you place the pattern clip things btw*)
now move that loop 20-40 bars down, then select the loop and ctrl+b until you have your song as long as you want it to be.
in that 20-40 bar gap (*you might want shorter as you are not making the same music i am*) before the loop kicks in you have your intro! your best bet is to start with a simpler version of the drum part in your main loop, then have a bassline kick in, and keep adding things until it builds up to the loop. it's gonna sound clunky as hell, but bear with me here
start listening to your track where the loop starts, and keep listening until it gets boring. at the place where it gets boring, replace your drum part with the simpler version you used in the intro and get rid of a buncha stuff. repeat this simpler part for about half as long as you repeated the main loop, then repeat the main loop again.
that's half your work done!
I suppose that is something I could do.
I have done similar things in the past but I tend to usually botch them because I am a fool.
Also, I have never been clear on how long a bar is, given how musically illiterate I am.
thing is like, I am primarily a maker of hip-hop beats, and rappers don't like it when you switch out drum patterns, even if the pattern that is being switched in is very similar.
of course I haven't even offered anyone a beat in like a year, so I guess I should just not care about that.
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But I can barely tolerate a single track with Future on it, so no thank you.
whoa
I don't really know what to tell you tbh.
Also I think music-related sadness might be contagious.
unfortunately because his username has an accent in it vanilla refuses to quote him correctly.
I have done similar things in the past but I tend to usually botch them because I am a fool.
Also, I have never been clear on how long a bar is, given how musically illiterate I am.
of course I haven't even offered anyone a beat in like a year, so I guess I should just not care about that.
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