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How well do you know music theory? Are you able to recognize chords in songs, for example? I think in the past I approached music production completely wrong, without knowing what I was doing. Lately I've been getting more into the theoretical basics of music, and it's became painfully obvious to me what I don't know and can't do. |
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you can be pathetic with me bud. |
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no i cant recognize notes or chords. i got tons of chord analyzing videos on youtube when my gf picked up the piano. like what are the most successful chords and why. which songs feature the best working chord progressions and how there are tons of songs doing the same thing over and over. i dont think its essential to make good or listenable music, if you got the wits to break through most beginners barriers, or be insanely creative, but it probably helps a lot if you pick up an instrument like the piano. it certainly helped me a bunch over just using a keyboard and a mouse, just trying out what combinations sound more pleasing and interesting than single notes or pads. |
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i heard on the radio while making deliveries on the classical radio station. listen to it first before reading the next paragraph. kristina miller learned to hear music and write it down note for note during her piano studies in russia. she started in childhood and was incredibly good at this, being able to write down music almost in real time and/or with only one listen. apparently this is something that is trained by professional players. so, one day she thought hmm this 8 bar blues sounds pretty good, id like to play this and so she did just from listening. maybe that song is featured in the legend of 1900 btw, but im not sure. |
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i do and i don't. i do better if i sit there and think i have to fight hard to dredge up... oh, inverted suspended... and the only time i ever bothered to reach that far was writing these giant midi tapestries in cubase and shit i've painted myself into a corner, here, and i need to rearrange all these chords to get what i want and at that point i can sit down and be technical about it after some mild googling. but i guess i compare it to resistor color codes: i can do them in my head, but very slowly, it's hard without counting on my fingers day to day, though, i'm incredibly quick at just rearranging chords without really understanding what i'm doing on that level, operating more like "let's turn that inside out" "let's sour the milk a little" and yeah i'm just thinking that while playing live keys. i'm sure what i'm doing actually gets quite jazz/technical but i really don't understand it on that level. or, i can, but i'm so agonizingly slow at it that it's not worth it for my use case |
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: when i was, like, four, my aunt and uncle gave me a fischer-price synthesizer keyboard (yellow) and it came with a songbook and my dad sat there and taught me yankee doodle and twinkle twinkle little star and i got this pretty quick, so he then explained how the notes on the page corresponded to the keys, and have fun son. and i learned a few on my own, like "somewhere over the rainbow," but i actually totally forget how to play that, now. because in short order i decided that fucking songbook full of notes felt like a straightjacket and you know what i am just going to throw that in the dustbin and hit whatever. notes. i. feel. like. then within a few months i broke that keyboard after telling the babysitter i had permission to steal a screwdriver and : the end of the second semester of keyboards is a recital as an exam -- two pieces picked by the teacher, third your choice. i was pretty slammed with my other exams and i really had nothing prepared the morning of. so i thought: fuck it, i'll just make it up when i get there and when i was asked to announce which piece i'd selected, i said something like, "i'm playing xylin room by autechre." peoples' parents and shit were there. the first two pieces, i did pretty meh, but then... well, i don't recall what i actually played, but i just went for three minutes and said "ok i'm done" and everyone clapped politely. later the feedback was like -- i was kind of cringing watching you fight through the first two, but that third one was pretty good, what was that and that was a bit awkward to answer because i hadn't planned that far ahead and that still gives me a giggle so why stop now more like i've memorized transitions between resistor color codes, i dunno, metaphor breaks down there |
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music is gay and i don't listen to it |
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