My prayer for you this Thanksgiving is, as always, that by Grace you and yours be granted the Wisdom and Strength you need to endure, survive and thrive!
Alright Then Young Lady . . . Thank you for your continued Friendship and Support!
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yeah most of the artists whose compositions i've tended to gravitate towards the most, saosin, early fall of troy, capsule, etc. are people that use the kind of chords and tonalities that i tended to use the most already, people whose composition style reminded me of my own. you might like some of capsule's more melodic stuff too, "sugarless girl", "i'm feeling you", "starry sky", and "jumper" are a few other good ones.
i kept the dynamic changes from all the rock stuff i was into and decided to use it for dance music, i wish more electronic dance music had varied dynamic changes like this too. i think the thing that affects the way electronic musicians compose vs. rock musicians is that electronic music is based so much off of all the different sounds that can be used and the ways to shape them, that people get so caught up in that and fell like they can skimp on composing and write super simple repetitive stuff, and they can because people who are already into EDM will like it. but with rock they only have guitar, drums, bass, and vocals, the same sounds over and over for every song, so the only way they can make the music more interesting is by actually experimenting and evolving the kinds of notes and rhythms they use. so why not combine both sides yeah?????? yeah???
well there's a lot of dynamic changes, not any actual tempo changes, but that's good that there's an illusion of speeding up and slowing down just cause it gets more intense and then more mellow, i wish i did that on purpose haha.
i've been listening to less rock nowadays, but i still like a lot of the classics for singalongs and such every once in a while. like tbs or whatever haha. but yeah, i listen to a lot more electronic music now, my favorite producer is this guy yasutaka nakata from japan that makes a crapload of money producing a bunch of different artists like perfume and ami suzuki and blah blah, the list goes on, but his main project that i like is called capsule. it's hard to get a good feel of his style just from listening to a few songs cause he does so much different stuff from extremely poppy jazz stuff to really hard electro to funky retro disco stuff. you might like passion pit too, they have some really good compositions and catchy hooks. capsule and passion pit are both on my top friends if you wanna preview some tracks, and coincidentally the capsule dude actually remixed a passion pit song recently but i don't think it's that good hahah. for hip hop stuff i like shing02 mainly for his philosophical poetic lyrical style, and busdriver for his insane vocal delivery.
hey chesca, i got a new song up called "falling novas" it's a lot more mellow and sentimental sounding than glass hurricanes, perhaps it may tickle your fancy!
I've been decent, finishing up here in School, and am actually going out to an interview in Boston... Damnit, You should be there! Where up north are you and what are you doing? Your tunes still remind me of the days when I used to listen to you in the front row, or second row whatever it was haha... I haven't jammed much recently, instead of playing and making the music, I am recording/mixing/editing it... Welp update me on your life miss, hope your doing great
=] hahah i'm glad it has that effect on you. back when i made stuff with reason, usually i would just export certain instruments as their own track so i could mix them all better in garageband cause i don't really like the sound quality coming out of reason. but for a lot of stuff like understand you and the old version of falling novas i just put the vocal track i recorded from garage band into a sampler track in reason; it's kinda complicated, so i'd rather just put the reason instruments into another program. but yeah logic's vocoder is super easy to use, you just record one track of you talking or singing the phrase and mute it, and then make the vocoder track and set the side chain to the track with the talking, and then program the midi notes to match the phrase you want the vocoder to sing. it might sound kinda complicated, but if you actually try it and you do it once, you can just do it super easy from then on.
Hello Doll, I couldn't find you on facebook anymore, don't know if you deleted it, but was wondering how you were doing and where you were located now. Hope all is going well.
logic is pretty useful, it's got a lot of tools for editing and enhancing really cleaning up audio, and if you have garage band experience it's easier to pick up.
i used to really like using reason cause it was really fun to me, but the mixes came out kinda dry compared to the new stuff i'm doing, (understand you and that old falling novas demo are with reason backing tracks and garage band vocals), but i still find it easier to get good synth sounds out of reason compared to logic.
but yeah if you just learn how to do basic stuff on there, i can help you with anything else you're not sure about and you can do whatever you want with your music basically. =)
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