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Ah, 3D. Because everyone wants to have a headache if it's poorly rendered.
Personally, I think 3D is a cool option for a tv/movie, but only if you can turn it off in the settings. I've gone to see Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans and How to Tame Your Dragon all in 3D. I had a headache a few days after each movie and felt kind of sick after walking out of the theater (no, it was nothing I ate).
Yes, 3D is cool. But not all the time. Immersing yourself like that is more trouble than it's worth if you have bad eyes (more than likely, if you grew up a gamer) or have a head condition or something. I myself kind of scoff at the concept of the 3DS, but i'm still wondering if they'll pull it off well.
The DSi is still recent,and the XL is still in the process of being released (correct me if I'm wrong, but i haven't seen any actual units for sale in my area, just displays). Do we really need another unit hot on its heels? Really? Just my opinion.
I had brain surgery when I was 8 and grew up a gamer, 3D movies never make me feel amiss. :S
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So we're not counting Dio? I think we've hit three already.
He's right. Dio did die aswell.
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Play piano at all? The idea is to have reach and arc. It takes a long time to get used to this, but the preferred hand position for guitar riffing is to have your thumb resting on the middle of the back of the neck.
Some guitars have a line drawn on the middle for a guide. Anyway, your thumb should be perpendicular to the neck, and your four fingers, when resting on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th frets (as if your were about to play a chromatic excercise), should be parallel to the neck. It'll feel uncomfortable and weird at first, but once you've mastered the position you'll find that you have a lot more control, speed, and reach.
The whole thumb in the middle doesn't work for me.
The reason being, is it puts an immense amount of tension on my wrist. The last time I used that technique, not saying it doesn't work, but for some things, like lower frets, cause me to bend my wrist, and with out bending it, I couldn't make ceartain formations. and I then ended up on a wrist splint for 3 weeks.
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Bent Wrists are usually bad aren't they?
I mean, when I play from the first fret, I have to bend my wrist, or the palm of my index finger rests on the high e string.
Now that I think of it, the palm of my index finger always rests on the high e string, unless I bend my wrist some.
I don't want to fuck up my wrist playing again.
Any help? Pics would be nice to as to direct a fix.
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Happy birthdayyyyyy
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okay so i'm pretty admittedly out of the loop when it comes to mainstream artists but i had no idea lady gaga was white
You probably didn't know she has a penis either. LAWL.
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HOT DAMN NEW FACIAL EXPRESSIONS! I'M SO GETTING THIS GAME.
This made me lol.
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Heya LionTamer. I'd like to get my name changed back to Misery. It's been fun having Slut for a name, but it's gotten a bit old and outlived the fun of it by far. <3
Who will be our Slut then?
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Congrats AreoZ! This is great news man
. Hopefully you can make it to MAGFest again [: -
It was truth; that was a cool story. I wouldn't be that mean.
You do know, that meme is used for nothing but sarcasm? I'd kinda steer away from using that if you're being serious.
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I found OCR looking for video game music or some kind of music in a google search. and it led me here obviously.
OCR has been my humble abode on the interwebs since 2008
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Remedy Drive: Get To Know You.
Note, I prefer these guys live, then on CD.
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Good luck brad, you'll do great. I got to see you play at Jamspace at MAG a bit, I can't make it, So I await for you to upload the files
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Went for a bike ride today.. holy shit. When I got home my legs were so tired it was tough to walk.. I'm so out of shape. :\
as a muscle group, unless you are doing exercises that stretch your abs out, such as reverse back bends etc., you are very unlikely to overwork your abs to the point of injury. doing lots of situps will not hurt you; that's not to say you won't feel it, because you will at first, but once you are over that preliminary hump of "ouch my abs are pretty damn sore" which takes two or three weeks, you can really make some headway thereedit: i've been where you were with the curls by the way, it is a miserable feeling and can be incredibly painful. to avoid that feeling, after curls stretch out your elbow joint extensively. this is especially important if you are doing curls for reps. just grab onto a nearby bar, horizontal preferably, and hang off of it. you'll feel a lot better afterwards
The only problem I have with curls, is that it hurts my wrists to lift at times. it was to a point where they hurt constantly and thats when I stoped and grabbed a wrist brace.
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I'm doing home workouts again... I have no fucking choice. and I don't want to get in worse shape.
I always find my workouts don't last that long. no more then 30 minutes.
I may only weigh 120. but I'm getting a good layer of flab goin' Not cool. Probably will get burned off in the coming weeks with biking and such after school is over.
So, should I pace my self or what? I want to extend my workouts and get more out of them.
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Kind of simple inquiry.
I'm just getting lazy with pasting small changes all the time to the other channels.
I've just been settling for a decent sound from a single "string ensemble" soundfont, but now I'm trying to get a fuller sound.
You can hightlight in the piano roll and hit CTRL+Q and quantize it to the playlist. Thats what I usually do.
As far as copy pasting, why not just write the whole thing in one piano roll, and quantize it. Then just work on syncing it with everything else?
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If you know what makes up structure... then really it's just a matter of laying down those Fruity Loops
Good luck. If you want any specific advice feel free to talk to me.Oh yeah, and watch tutorial videos online for your program of choice. There's thousands of FL Studio tutorials out there. Many of them are bad, but some of them are good and you might learn something. Also watch things like screencasts made by talented people and you'll see how their songs are put together.
Edit: Actually I just sat down and watched the entirety of Rayza's screencast. If you want to do the House/electronic stuff, WATCH IT because there's so much good stuff in it that you'll learn from.
I will be sure to watch that, thanks ^^. Well, I guess part of it is laying it down in FL. I know how FL works pretty well. Its just applying it. Like I work better seeing how shit it done. If you tell me to go do this and that. Yeah I will probably get confused. It helps seeing it done, or what some people have said in this thread. They're straight forward about what I should do, and can do.
Over the last 2 semesters of schooling. I don't see my self fixing computer networks for the rest of my life. I just wouldn't be happy. I like music a lot. But hey, I'm already pretty good with computers, compared to music ;P.
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You see, I KNEW you were going to go that route.
Try to keep an open mind here. Starting on a piano is a surprisingly decent way to get started, because you're putting that theory to practice through your fingers, which can be easier than point and click on a DAW. It's also for VERY beginners for not so much money, which is what you're looking for.
Do you have a keyboard instrument, perchance?
Gave my keyboard to my friends brother who was more musically incline with the keyboard then I was. Hence, a straight up Theory book is what I'm looking for.
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I got some old piano books somewhere's that would likely work for you. That's how I started to learn music theory and I'm almost learning disabled.
I had a few piano ones, and they focused on the piano aspect. I'm looking for ones thats just for theory. Not ones that pertain to an instrument. ]:
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Anyone have a Music Theory book they'd give up for not so much cash? Like one for a very new beginner.
add this to wants if you could, thanks ^^
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As someone who started compo at the same time as you, I have a few things to recommend...
First, I think compo is a good idea, it forces you to come up with ideas. The fact that you cannot create what you hear in your head shouldn't deter you, since that takes practice. Not time, it takes practice.
So do it often and try to ignore the fact that it's not what you had in your head when you sat down.
Vinnie and Rozovian and The Vagrance touched on it - listen to music. Lots of it. Try to re-create what you hear. I think that even doing this in the small will work really well - that is, take one small, tiny element of a song and recreate that only. Whether it be a hi-hat shuffle, a catchy bass line, a soulful melody. Create just that and get used to how the creation of that works. It's much less discouraging to recreate one or two instrument parts than it is to try to recreate the entirety of a deadmau5 song.
As for structure, it helps to map things out into different structures. Many modern songs have the following structure:
Intro, Verse, Chorus, Verse, (Chorus), Bridge, (Chorus), Outro
or some variation of. If you follow this kind of structure, you'll pretty much have a decent song layout. This is a great thing to fall back to if you just want to finish something that sounds pretty traditional.
Try to listen in the songs you like how these parts build up. Do they use the verse-chorus-bridge? Do they use A B A? Do they just take a single theme and develop around it? Do they repeat the same 8-bar melody for pretty much the entire song and build on it?
hmmm I don't know what else to say. Mostly, I think you should try to suspend disbelief and disappointment in being unable to create what you hear in your head in its entirety, and instead concentrate on really small elements instead. And from there, work up.
Well. I know WHAT makes up structure, its just applying it. Which is something I wanted to learn before I came back, but obviously as you can tell, school wasn't the only thing that got into my way.
I'm gonna work a little bit experiment, and then come back to compos after school is out.
And I'd have these idease in my head, but thats the problem they had no structure. Thats what I'm working towards. To get a little bit of a "Oh yeah, this is how I put this together and make it work" Because I mean, making a song out of thin air is fun for OHCs. But I atleast want a bit of something to work off of, you know?
Its like riding a bike with one training wheel. You know somethings missing, and its pretty difficult just to ride with one training wheel and learn to ride a bike. I needed to find that other training wheel so I could figure out some of the simple things.
I kinda just wanted to learn outside of the OHC. since I only did music on OHC. I wasn't learning anything, just wasnt working for me. I sat down every thursday and wrote stuff that popped into my head.
When I took a listen to all my old tracks, I decided I want to leave ohc and go work on some things, structure mainly. Just to get a grasp. [: Thats what I'm doing. I mean last night I transcribed a part to Morgan Page - Call My Name. after the first couple of chords came in, the drum and bass came in. I sat there for a few minutes trying to figure how how Page got that to fit in, I figured it out, but I don't have a sample to fit it
I'll come back to OHC, but after I pick up on some of the things I think I should.
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I tell everyone this, but you learn a ton by trying to recreate songs. It's not even that important to make things sound exactly the same (although that helps hone production skill), but as you try it, you'll notice that this instrument fills this frequency range, this other instrument adds percussiveness, etc. And heck, since you're a deadmau5 fan, you've got the perfect opportunity to see how he makes songs since he's got a demo in FL!
I'd strongly recommend opening that track up, soloing every track to hear what it sounds like on its own, and try to trace the path of the sound's creation in whatever plug-in was used. Mess with the parameters on the plug-ins to see how the sound changes. Turn off the effects one at a time to see how that changes things. I've learned some pretty neat tricks from the FL demo songs, it's great way to see how songs are put together.I will def, look into this. Never knew he had a demo out. Hah, thanks for the advice and the tip on that demo ^^
If you're that into electronica check out Groove Armada (if you haven't already). They do many kinds of electronic styles and always come out with unique sounding pieces. They are great for pulling ideas from. One song I recommend:This is awesome as well! Thank you. Most of my time won't be spent watching NCIS anymore haha. Appreciated guys, [:
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Well I'm gonna get to work on some stuff. Thanks for the advice.
I'll start grabbing some different styles of music more often, and play with some songs and such more often. Now that I think about it though, in high school, like my boring history and english classes. I would either sleep, or zone out and make silly rhythms in my head of sounds and movements from around the room. Like the clock ticking, people tapping their fingers, papers shuffling.
Off to do some work though. thanks ^^
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Its up to you entirely, I'm just basing this off of personal experience and artist interviews (Everyone is influenced by Miles Davs) but at the very least its reinvigorated my producing as of late. It can also be some older electronic music as well, but something that gives you a new perspective on things. There's no better time than to do this than now. It may not necessarily seem like the type of music you'll want to listen to initially but once you start broadening your views you'll find yourself surprised at how much great stuff there is that you like.
Personally my iTunes library ranges from Dieselboy to 5th Dimension (these guys are fucking incredible at points) to Dillinger Escape Plan to Flying Lotus and it all has at the very least made me think about different approaches to making music and conveying emotion and there are things worth picking up from all of those artists. The whole point is to not get bogged down in one sound, you're only as good as your influences and if you want to make a Zircon-styled song and you listen to is Zircon, then chances are its going to sound like an uninspired Zircon rip-off, at which point I'll just listen to the real thing.
I'll end this by saying that my advice may not necessarily be true for everyone and keep in mind that the most I've accomplished in making music is a couple of OCR-posted songs and a mound of unfinished pieces so I know for a fact I'm not the best resource to go to. Try reading some artist interviews with artists you really like, artists that you think have really made it and see what they have to say about their techniques in songwriting, influences, etc.. Its often an enlightening experience.
I get the whole widening my music listening, but listening to things outside the genre confuses me? I like House/Electro Pop stuffs. What could I learn from someone like, The Who for example? I mean they use guitars, I might or might not. Thats what confuses me.
What can bands and artists from other genres help with the music I'm interested in writing?
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