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This is the first time I have ever done a track like this...at the moment it is literally only the basics of a new track, however I have been experimenting with drum programming. I suppose the style it most closely resembles is VSnares on WITBOAS...so as such I have called my demo track Summer In The Stomach Of a Lizard. You can get it I would appreciate any feedback on whether you think the drums/bleeps are any good, or whether I should just quit :D Gracias amigos :P |
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since i've never heard anything by venetian snares that i liked, i'll just say "keep on keeping on!" |
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OK forget VSnares...it sounds like any drill track you have ever liked if it will get you to listen :D It is only a one and a half minute segment btw... |
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ask and ye shall receive. generally... keeping in mind that this is a kernel of a demo, and not a complete track, of course you need to spend a lot more time building a memorable melody. right now it's a very basic skeleton. personally, i liked what sounds like a lightly tweaked vibraphone sample, but i did not like the stereo echo reverb effect. the rhythm programming, to my ears, is choppy and needs to be both tightened and loosened up. perhaps the greatest difficulty in using this sort of style is achieving "expressiveness" when there are so many lockstep squeaks and blips flying past. have you tried switching back and forth between time signatures? i'd like to hear some syncopation to break up the space. i would suggest programming the kick drum alone with the vibes, aiming for a groove with unpredictable syncopation. then, build your drill patterns using the kick as a rhythmic foundation. i realize that the drill sound often aims for a free jazz freakout effect, but it sounds to me like you want it to be tighter, explosive but flowing, at the edge of chaos but with a white-knuckle groove driving things, a la afx or squarepusher. you get extra points for not using that amen break, or any other sampled break (which i love, really, but is such an awful cliché). what did you use to make this? i would guess reason. another approach would be to program a ton of short phrases, and then use those as building blocks for longer phrases. quit? never! btw, can we come out of the lizard's stomach now? it smells funny in here... |
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Nobody like drill any more? I'm not asking for tons of feedback, just whether you think the drums sound ok or not :P |
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Man that is some feedback...thanks :D!!! I agree with everything you say...to be honest the synth was just there to give some contrast for the beats. I am basically only just starting out with drill so I need more practise with the sequencing, obviously I will try what you have suggested (good food for thought). Thanks again :) |
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fuck me i'm dreaming |
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huh? |
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i'm the worst kind of person |
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yes I spend time making music and asking for opinions so you can type utter shit in my topic...cheers |
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then stop eating. |
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roygbiv, maybe you should create a "xltronic therapy" thread. we'll wake you up, happy up your place and help you learn to love yourself. the truth is, we love you and we only want you to be happy. |
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He's going to be one of those people who are renoound for something, like the Baron saying "The Baron Has Spoken!" Roygbivcore wants to do the same. Idiot. |
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i just want teh lovin baby |
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who doesn't want to remembered fondly (or failing that, not so fondly) for some admirable (or failing that, memorable) trademark? for example, did you know that ecnadniarb here makes music? |
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Well I am going to bed now so this is the last bump this topic will receive, if any else can be bothered to listen I will respond tomorrow. Thanks. Goodnight all. |
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gosh, really? ecnadniarb makes music? wow. i must remember him, then. along with the other fifty-thousand fucking music-makers! :-< |
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:'( |
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i don't want anyone to remember me, ever! |
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sounds like that toe (wherever you've got it jammed) is making you a little grumpy. time to put the balm on. |
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roygbiv but you want to want people to remember you, always. |
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FUCK THE REVOLUTOIN WE NEED A FUCKIN TIME OUT |
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yeah but you're such an ass all the time. naw just kidding, i'm drunk.. |
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hmmm? geez I don't know what to say, my interpretation is this, you recorded some kind of hospital operation onto dat, and then proceded to hit the dat tape with a sledgehammer and then you fixed the dat tape? I don't know?, (warning though, I'm much more the tri-repetae fan than a confield one, so I'm sure that I wouldn't be able to appreciate the bubble and squeeks like alot of others on this board no doubt could...) |
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I like it so far although it is hard to really give much of a feedback on it considering it's just the drums and synth but it's good man! The drums are tight and it pisses me off that this is a short demo hoha with the drums, i was craving a big kick or something like that shit, and other than that.... obviously the synth has to change buuut show us when you have a more completed version yeaH OH and the first track on your zebox page is fucking amazing, it's so damn original and mental patienty, i love it and i want to show it to my mom do you have more songs like it? |
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Sorry for my outburst before, I very rarely get angry or irritated like that, but I was in a bad mood. I'm better now! :-) |
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*feeds you pills* |
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oi ecnad this is good stuff! the melody is good but it need to be developed. some effects on the drums would be ace! good work! |
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Yeah the beat sounds like Venetian Snares. |
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downloading now, Lee - must be annoying to be in the same city as Goon - when will YOU ever be #1 ! ! ! |
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Interesting, Lee, but not really Snaresy - maybe just because the instruments/persucussion chosen weren't right - and not enough god-damned DISTORTION ! :P |
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i like! the beats are ok yeah, but what i especially like is the... i'm not sure, is it what is called drone?... you hear alone at the beginning and the end and coupled with the beats through all of it : ) |
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I quite like it. It could be improved with something weird, some sort of something that makes it's construction original and weirdified. Right now the burst of percussion sounds come right after the other in a sort of on/off/on/off fire sequence, so maybe spacing of the sounds could be more interesting and less checkerboard. The sounds of the sounds were quite good though. Nice variation, though not as much as otto von zorak and they sound good too though not as weirdified with detail as ooter vorn schirach. |
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KITTENS! |
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Is that an absynth preset I'm hearing? I'm pretty sure it is. If not, it sounds 100% similair to an absynth sound. The 'melody' (if you wanna call it a melody) sounds very forced, especially the last 2 notes of the theme. You really need to make it sound more natural and of course add some other instruments. The drumbeat is allright, but it's 100% VSnares on WITBOAS like you said. You'd have a go by spreading this track around the internet claiming it's a rare vsnares track or you might wanna create your own sound instead of fully imitating someone else. I don't mean to sound harsh, you're a nice guy, but this is too much of an imitation to me. You have the skills, now make it yours! |
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spreading fake tracks, pretending they are by other popular people, sounds like a fun hobby. You could make the track very similar to their style (like madonna or something) then get a voice impersonator to say something humiliation/embarrassing/ (as if she were madonna), ha , like make up some bizarre political view she has and make her track all ablaze with it, just barely staying out of the realm of being too ludicrous to believe as a real track. |
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hehe, eminem telling us how much he loves his mom. |
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Woo, thanks for all the comments peeps :D!! Nexus 6, your comment is the best comment I could have received :D As I said earlier in the thread the synth is there purely as a something for the beats to lie against...I didn't even think about it, just used 6 keys on the keyboard to do it in less than a minute. As for the beats I was purposely aiming to emulate VSnares sound because his style is the most basic drill I have heard. Now I can move on from here and introduce my own originality into it. The main thing I wanted to get from this is whether people thought it sounded authentically drill, if that makes sense. I am chuffed though that so many of you replied. Thanks again :D!!!! |
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"As for the beats I was purposely aiming to emulate VSnares sound because his style is the most basic drill I have heard. Now I can move on from here and introduce my own originality into it." I was hoping you'd say that. It is indeed very important that, from here, you'll add your own originality, because the creativity is good. I'll be waiting for the melodies. That will eventually tell me if you're able to do it or not. |
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i thort this track was really cool, Lee! The vibraphone sounds really nice, maybe make the ping-pong-delay-thing out of time with the piece, so there are cross rhythms that are not rhythmical at all, adding to the disorientating effect. Maybe make each key 'echo' at a slightly different rate to the next. drums almost sound spot on, but like paul said WHERE'S THE DISTORTION?? :D imitating someone is always a good way to learn a new style, then just gotta develop away from it and make ur own - like u said :) |
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Rappers would be particularly good targets because their music typically contains lots of expressive words anyway, so making up your own wouldn't seem terribly suspicious to an audience. snoop: Hey yo wassup, this is snoop dog... ... Me and shady can't take it no more man. We sick of hidin. We comin out of the closet with this shit man. eminem: shiiiiiit snoop: we about to tell you all the truth about me and shady. we ain't fuckin around. this shit is for real... (chorus of them singing duet telling us about how they're lovers) |
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Sure there'd be a great urge to make an appearance from barney, but that would be too unbelievable and the ultimate goal is to humiliate them in a believable way :D |
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eminem: I'm like banging his ass every fucking 3 hours man, fucking turns my on. snoop dog: we're touring together at the moment so we can spend more time with each other. We also tried a threesom with dr. dre, but his cock's a bit too small for us. |
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heh heh, seems like such an obvious troll activity... I guess the main obstacle is a lack of gangsta rapper impersonaters in the nerd community. |
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My mate can do a shit hot version of Snoops voice...and I am sure a million and one nerds can do Eminems voice. |
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I'm extremely good at imitating shaggy's voice. [quote="Ophecks"]But he's so 6 months ago[/quote] |
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There really needs to be an official "troll website". So you can upload snoops impercination/ ideas about the fake track/ ideas to destroy the internet/ ideas of marvelous schemes and pranks/ ideas to destroy humanity in a humorous way etc etc. |
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yeah, so that all that stuff can be done unnoticed? |
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i thought it already was |
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sorry, i meant i thought you thought it already was |
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