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To those of you making music... What do you think your best skill is? The thing you're most proud of in your own music. This could be something you think is on par with signed artists and people you respect, or something that you're really excited about when you do something and stick it in the piece and comes out better than you expected. Or something in between Would like some serious responses, I'm really curious, almost every artist I have heard on hear has at least one really cool thing they do Feel free to tack on a link to a piece that you've done it in and we'll check it out! |
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My mind. :) |
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I don't have anything. Maybe that I feel most of my music has a certain emotional quality to it. |
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Melody I suppose. I am quite happy with those. |
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Being able to do a passable tune. Lol. |
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be able to make someone say - "fuck ! that's good !" |
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Being able to cut, combine and change breaks so much as to be unrecognisable (from the originals) and yet still retain that "live drummer" feel. For some reason, I'm better at doing it for trip hop rather than say, drum and bass. My other one (if we're allowed two) is synth patches. I'm really happy with a lot of the ones I do (in a number of synth programs), especially compared to the quality of a lot of "amateur made" ones I DL for those programs.) |
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making emotionless, unintelligible, garbled mush. |
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probably my ability to create rhythms (on guitar I mean, I suck with drums).. also my finger/hand size/strength comes in very useful. I also have no problem creating melodies. I can write a part, and then write a harmonized melody for it easily enough. |
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making awkward beats that still carry the ass shakin funk, then placing my dirty beats into an ambient space. thats what i think i excel at anyway. maybe i'm just fooling myself. |
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I love it when I compose a really lush tune, but for instant satisfaction nothing beats a good beat melange. Either mad cut up breaks or crunchy techno. Yum! |
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P.S. I record as Grip and Alan Tit-Mash. There are some mp3's . |
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i guess id say cutting up breaks and shit. altho i just about suck at everything anyways |
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I think I'm getting a handle on making my own patches and sounds, I can do a respectable mix and arrangement, and I can do good melodies. What I have to work on is building up some excitement in my tunes - I bore myself to death sometimes. |
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woah. eveeryone calls me jape. |
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"Catherine's suitcase" is great. Acidy DnB, I love it. |
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hahaha "What I have to work on is building up some excitement in my tunes - I bore myself to death sometimes." this goes to best quotes thread. |
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An unexpected moment of honesty |
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why? |
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i can notice dc-offset and know how to remove it with a highpassfilter at 20hz |
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my beats, easily. that's what everyone usually compliments me on. i'm also good at contrasts in my music, though no one ever points that out, so i'm probably wrong in saying that. |
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i dunno, im pretty happy with my synth sounds and most of my beats. also, recently im pretty happy with my delay abstract effects. Hard to explain, ill upload some music soonish. |
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I was hoping for a few example tracks of some skills, but great responses One reason for this thread was to try and find someone you might be compatible with, an opposite skill or something you want to work on... get some collaboration going! I think my strengths lie in overall production and mastering and melodic and chordal progressions... I know people will agree with the mastering, but the chordal stuff has been put aside and will come out full force in my newer releases which have yet to be put up on my site I'd love to work with people who aare better with beats than I either new or cut up (a lot of you), good bass line builders that push energy for a dancable sound, and anyone with a good ambient progression, I'm not very good at making long ambient linse that continue to evolve slowly. I'm not patient at all I'm going to start more of these threads for reasons that will be revealed soon enough... you guys are providing me with a lot of good info for a new project I'm working on you'll all enjoy |
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i actually have a release coming up on r40f's label that is a collaboration between me and him - it is called ALTROCK. for more information and some samples, go If you want to hear some excellent examples of musical unions, check out XLTRONIC Vibes Volume 10, if you haven't already. great stuff, and it is where altrock was born. |
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I appear to be able to murder a seemingly good track in a matter of seconds without realising, listen to the track a couple of times and completely fucking hate it. |
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I like that I make music that I like. |
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My best skill is probably rockity rockity rockity rockity rock-rock-rockity rocking. |
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You might like to hear this song, which I guess has long evolving synth lines, and I was pleased with the drums. |
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I think that is a great idea! I would love to collab with people here! Like i said before, I'm good with melodies but not very good with beats, so if anyone who is opposite of me wants to work together, you know how to contact me! :) |
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I think the best skill is being able to make melodies. |
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cutting out pieces of something and making it sound like it is not itself. |
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sounds between sounds .. things that arent actually there but accidentally drop out and go straight up my back .. its what i value most :) |
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I enjoy that mush. |
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i like to make sure most of my melodies or percussion do not come out of no where. if you want to see what im talking about go to lacedmilk.com , mp3, atft, and the songs that would show what i mean are probably squareoctagenerial or shadow the dog. |
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weird complex "fractal beats". Noragamyognif McTimfulaptor at zebox.com/norfzorf is my best available example. They can sound interesting but are limited to a certain kind of non-stop sort of structure and don't compare with some deliberately engineered beats like "ill shit" by telefon tel aviv for example. |
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my sounds of space and of apocalypse (my self proclaimed strengths) can be found in the tracks "remover" and "montecarlo77(pistilII)" they are a couple months old but if you haven't heard than please hear em. and i love to collaborate if anybody's interested. |
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Anybody best at Remixing? Laying new stuff over already existing stuff? Classical composition? Jazz? Noise? House/dance? Feel a certain genre is an extension of your brainial area? Soundscapes? Ambient? Listening to stuff, if anyone is interesting in collabing on some stuff, email me at chect@hotmail.com, I'm back to making music furiously right now |
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i'm best at percussion |
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I wouldn't really call it remixing, but I can easily add extra melodies to songs.. a lot of the time to practice (both guitar and keyboard) I put on a song and then start jamming out solos to it. Also, I find ambient music the most easy to create.. for some reason ambient is one of the only styles I can do when fucked up.. it's just so... easy =D |
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Ambient soundscapes probably. |
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evolume: i like your stuff! you got any more? |
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my crazy brains |
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I'm looking to do some collab work for some dance music. I'm working on making some house/breaks with a huge IDM influence to start spinning at the parties I'm going to on a regular basis now, make it in the style people around here like, but with a huge flare of my own. Anybody interested? Ambient scapes, cut up beats, and especially progression/transisitions in any area I've been listening to a lot of stuff, good highlights of the skills you guys are mentioning, more on that later when I have some more free time |
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I just now got my ozone working, but I've got homework to do, so tomorrow I'll record some ambient stuff I've been working on, and you can see if you like it any.. :) |
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Would love to put some beats under it if I get inspired, setting up an email account I can use to get larger files... I think chect@mergerletter.com will work |
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It gives me a valid excuse to hang out with my best friends and do nothing but write songs and play video games. |
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Feel a certain genre is an extension of your brainial area? ............don't know about genres........ usually my music either slow (like tracks on vibes 9 & 10) or it's not a music at all (like lazer and output3 on my zebox page)......... |
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that very little of what I do can actually pass for music |
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lots of noises! yay! Ive just finished a new track for my new album and ill post it up. Kinda jazzy wazzy hypnoticrobotic funk. |
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