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if you want to get better and enjoy your playing more, i would still suggest spending that 10-20 minutes on warmup, scales, whatever rote mechanical exercise this will make it way way easier to play what you want to. over time it will really make a night and day difference
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spose then the next step is learning what those are 
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brain empty scrample egg. can’t do a music wish i could focus on it but work takes all your brain cells it sucks
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feeling that somehow weed unlocks some special creativity that i’ve tried and tired to find without weed but it only exists when I have a smoke and it’s glorious and clearly inside me so why can’t I without it? 
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too much to get done, so nothing gets done
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write a meta song about how you can’t write a song
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technically every song I make is about not being able to compose 
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echinopsis posted:write a meta song about how you can’t write a song I tried that once. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/running-out-of-ideas The problem is, you can only really do it once.
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whats the lowest note you can tolerate for me I think it's b if you keep playing down the lowest note I can tolerate is the b. once you take a step down to the a.... I just can't do it
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echinopsis posted:whats the lowest note you can tolerate what about the Bb between them
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also while we're doing gear posts: made in a tiny family workshop in the mountains of northern Italy; I got to try one out at a conference in 2018 and absolutely fell in love (it has this huge fat sound that is really distinct from most modern saxes), but couldn't justify dropping the cash on it at the time still couldn't exactly justify it when I picked this up in 2020, but the world is ending, so gently caress it
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alright its finally time for some careless whisper
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May 3, 2022 13:41
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sorry, I try to not play alto if I don't have to
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i didnt know that there was a difference, actually. that was the only sax-prominent song i knew, so officially out of ideas now  actually bohren & der club of gore has sax a lot iirc
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Penguissimo posted:sorry, I try to not play alto if I don't have to a goon of good taste and manners.
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Dukes Mayo Clinic posted:a goon of good taste and manners. I don't know if I would go that far here's a little jam we did last night with me on soprano: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjYRsX_yvfvZiqJ2to4cxENkDieYJA?e=dCAE17 it was a bit shaky in places because we were playing this tune for the first time as a group (and I think the bass player was playing it for the first time period), but there were some cool moments also it just kind of stops because we jumped in without first talking about how to end it Penguissimo fucked around with this message at 22:51 on May 3, 2022 |
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echinopsis posted:
man, you really ought to get yourself some lessons. it's really the best way to develop competency with any instrument. so many people who "teach themselves" to play end up with seriously bad technique that hinders their ability to improve and prevents them from getting competent enough to play real music. there's gotta be some music store or someplace like that in your area that offers private lessons, and the $20 or $30 per session it'll cost you is well worth it. i took private lessons on piano for nearly my entire childhood, and because of that i've been able to do some real serious gig work and make awesome music with other folks over the years.
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ever spend an entire day mulling over a phrase in your head and get so sick of it that you just want your mind to shut up by the time you get home from work yeah
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also I’ve realized that I have the musical equivalent of analysis paralysis and I wonder if that’s a tism thing or sth cause it’s bizarre four on the floor -> basic bassline -> oh no oh god uhhh what do I do
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Pollyanna posted:also I’ve realized that I have the musical equivalent of analysis paralysis and I wonder if that’s a tism thing or sth cause it’s bizarre sometimes that's all it takes, man
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relative_q posted:man, you really ought to get yourself some lessons. yeah, you’re totally correct especially if I consider what I want to do with it thanks
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i sometimes wonder if there would be value in a specific keys course where everything was alllllways in C. like producer-centric. We can and do transpose keys all the loving time so maybe its not super worth it for beep boop musicians to learn 24 keys in total? idk idk. I realize that this is 'dumbing down of the art' and if you actually wanna raise that argument, boy howdy do i have some news for you about like 90% of pop and rock music from 1940-2022
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i wrote a midi plugin that basically does that. whatever scale you pick now goes on the white keys, and black keys are chords it makes it easier to not know how to play keys
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learning every scale in every key allows you to modulate more adventurously absolutely worth it imo
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I like finding dumb scales, yester I had an accordion loaded up in Halion and thought "I wonder what that French sounding scale is" so a quick Google later I can't remember the name of it but in C the notes are C D Eb Gb G A Bb And its so dang French sounding
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do whatever you find fun. plenty of artists just transpose stuff so they only have to worry about the white keys. learning a few different scales can be real nice though. most techno is phrygian because it sounds atonal and one of my favorite artists does everything in mixolydian for reasons I don't entirely understand but it sounds cool
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After a decade and a half of trying to figure out scales/modes on guitar, the day I learned them as per their relationship to white keys on a piano about 2 years ago was probably my biggest musical eureka moment since I learnt palm muting.
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i made something inbetween working on two other songs that are already way too long and complex and still need endings https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/time-pressure drums are hard. also naming things sucks
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 anyone got any comments on this? maybe good?
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it wont be piano action or w/e but theyre useful for beeps and boops. ive got an mpk mini and like it
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I’m somewhat looking for an all-in-one and it just seems like a better value option than spending the same thing on something new but probably less capable don’t need piano action, just a way to make ableton play notes and beats. could probably be the total extent of my controller
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they have real fun arpeggiators. just pull up a soft synth with a short boop and let the controller arpeggiate according to whatever keys you hit. its got a latch mode too so you can just hit C F G and it cycles through em
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love a good arpeggiator. the one on my hydrasynth was good, haven’t found one inside a soft synth that worked as well, but I remember the one on the novation launchkey was good this looks similar to the launchkey. if I can assign the pots to things inside ableton that’ll make for some decent controllability
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eastwest just released a new synth thing that I'm looking forward to messing with not that I don't have enough of them in the mean time, i made a thing https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/dont-look-back I don't even know what the classify it as. has creepy strings, lots of guitar and drums, and whatnot
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echinopsis posted:
get it, imo. even if you end up with a better keyboard eventually that's a lot of midi control.. you can map so many different things
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echinopsis posted:. if I can assign the pots to things inside ableton that’ll make for some decent controllability you can, and the transports, faders, pads
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/dont-look-back it’s a little more upbeat than my mental model, but “uneasy listening music” has been a good genre answer for me and may also be for you. It feels like lost Battletoads fight music. It reminds me a bit also of Skeletonbreath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRfiFGoSUuI
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oh look another thing to spend money on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAQXqoKRfzs (also Benn Jordan is a top dude and his channel is awesome)
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I really need to get a cheap desk to put my gear on, my poor back 
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