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Sheesh, some of you niggaz must have been home skooled and encouraged to paint the walls with your stinking running shit, oh look little snookums is being so creative |
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hey fleetmouse what happned to your old avatar? I liked that girl |
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Every time I rotate away from ol' Ellen, I get complaints. The hold that girl has on people is scary. They should bottle and sell her. |
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haha yeah I'd buy it |
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FUNKMASTER and anyone else who is going on and on about how easy it is to play Richard's stuff..... .....of course it may be easy for you to separate all melodies and figure them out so you can play it on your computer...... ...but the real deal is CREATING IT. Making a melody from nothing. Having the imagination to come up with it in the first place. I'm sure you'll be able to match anything someone does with keys because you are so educated that you can do a mock-up. Try creating something, instead of repeating something. You don't even have to be a wizard at any instrument. You just need creativity to create. You're no better than a weatherman. Unable to predict, but after the storm hits, you have all the explanations. spare me. |
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scales & chords when learning to play the piano are far more to do with technique than anything else - they make you a better _pianist_. theoretical understanding of notes scales etc is not a hindrance. I go back to my earlier point - think of all those astonishing, creative, genre-redefining musicians/composers... most of them have an understanding of music. Aphex writes simple melodies with really basic harmonies... well thats fine, if it works for you then great. For me it doesn't, I like something perhaps a little more developed (certainly harmonically) because more often than not it affects me more than something that is asdeveloped as a kindergarten musicians music. I guess it's personal preference more than anything. |
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Amen to that |
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"scales & chords when learning to play the piano are far more to do with technique than anything else - they make you a better _pianist_. theoretical understanding of notes scales etc is not a hindrance. I go back to my earlier point - think of all those astonishing, creative, genre-redefining musicians/composers... most of them have an understanding of music. Aphex writes simple melodies with really basic harmonies... well thats fine, if it works for you then great. For me it doesn't, I like something perhaps a little more developed (certainly harmonically) because more often than not it affects me more than something that is asdeveloped as a kindergarten musicians music. I guess it's personal preference more than anything." Thankyou for being so daring, and for saying something I've always wanted to say. Although, what music do you find (in the electronic world) suites your preferences? I think some of Autechre's stuff has some interesting melodies...and believe it or not, but some of Orbital's harmonies are really wacky and cool. |
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Autechre are the people I respect most. Draft7.30 is a lot more 'advanced' (sorry, crap word to use - you see what I mean) harmonically than anything they've done before. I think rhythmically it's also leagues ahead of most of their contemporaries work. Aphex was the first 'electronic/idm/braindance/whatever' artists I got into, since then my tastes have moved on. I find his stuff too simple. Whilst you could say that the simplest ideas are always the best, i'm not sure if thats always the case. What really annoys me is that alot of the stuff on labels like Warp, Rephlex etc. is really melodically and harmonically simple... there's room for improvement, development. For labels that supposedly embrace forward-thinking artists it's a bit of a shame really. This is why I think that a knowledge of music theory is going to be essential for this genre to progress... otherwise it'll get really stagnant (something I honestly think it's in danger of becoming)... well... there you go...I'll wait to get seriously yelled at then... |
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yeah, reading music isn't hard at all. it's just another language, you just have to take the time learn it. |
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oops, i just replied to marlowe's 25th post :) didn't realize that there were more pages... ohwell |
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