Originally Posted by
Pouffy
On the contrary, there is truly no such thing as an off or wrong note! Only when things are judged through the theoretical framework of ideas of "good sounding" music from over a hundred years ago are they wrong or off.
Theory is only useful for explaining things, if you're not trying to set up perfect counterpoint or a quintessentially boroque chord progression (lol) do you need to perfectly follow a scale. If you put down a note and decide it sounds good, there is absolutely 0 reason to remove it just because it doesn't fit with whatever scale you're writing in.
Hello pouffy,
Some of what you said is right, some is wrong.
There are off notes, they are a thing, they exist, The only time you should use them is when you hear the note in your head, before you write it down and hear it with your ears. Unless (as yourself said) you want to make music which sounds like it has time traveled from over a hundered years ago.
I'm sorry but also theory is not only for explaining things. as Ele mentioned, he should follow a scale and if he hears a note in his head begging to be placed, and is off-key, then he should place that note.
If you had experience about how people react to melodies like his song (Heat) You wouldn't be saying the same thing.
It would work for classical style of music. but this mans genre is trap.
Probably half of this melody was sounding off-tune. Which i will guarantee you, it will not be appreciated by the majority of the crowd.
Artists grow a different taste for music after all the shit that goes through their head.
You and I might find this piece of music interesting because we find "Unique" things worthier than others. but people just want to hear good music, they don't care how rare your instruments or line of notes are.
Bands, if you don't use a key and stick to it for most part of your song, then please do so from your next project.
This is a mistake made by many new producers who are supported by the "Do what sounds good" brotherhood.
And the only thing these people are good at, is at holding you back from learning theory.
Our brains ain't computers, we forget things and we make mistakes
Which is why you should use theory because it's easier to remember "F minor", than to remember how the whole melody sounded. and try to make melody which doesn't sound like a whole new song.
You should play by theory till you know everything about it, then you can carefully go off road to differ yourself from the rest.
Originally Posted by
Ele
Also, add a bassline.
Originally Posted by
Bands
And does it not have a bass line? There's an 808, kick, and snare lol.
I didn't want to get too deep with the CnC but since you already talked about this, i will try to explain it as well
First of all, to clear things out a snare has nothing/little to do with bass. Most of the frequencies from a snare are near 1khz.
The 808 and kick already filled up the bass section.
I think by saying "Add a bass-line" ~Ele, He meant an instrument with a good "Hold" and to make a melody with it.
Even though it's not needed, but having a good bass line will sometimes make a song better.
It will make your song more energetic, but you will have to try it to see if it's making your better or worse.
If you wanted to improve the bass section, forgetting everything above.
My advice would be to clear out the bass from the other instruments
Add a high pass filter on EVERY instrument, other than your Kick , main bass instrument.
But do NOT add one same filter to all of the other instruments.
The high-pass filter on each instrument should be lower/higher depending on the instrument.
This way you will be cutting off all that muddy bass and there will be a nice clean 808 bass sound.
Last edited by Mafi; Feb 1, 2017 at 11:37 AM.