Dhsu Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 This is pretty cool. Good to see something productive is finally coming out of this thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceansAndrew Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Pretty good stuff; better than I was expecting, to be honest. I think your melody plays it a little too safe in regards to passing tones, but your progressions are solid enough, and things are interesting. A few chords I think would be more expressive with a different bass note, but solid work overall. This is the type of conversation I can appreciate. I'm glad you took things seriously enough to respect the deadline. I'm not as dismissive about you as I once was, and I think in a different context, without paragraphs upon paragraphs of text, we'd actually get along pretty well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xRisingForce Posted May 23, 2008 Author Share Posted May 23, 2008 Pretty good stuff; better than I was expecting, to be honest. I think your melody plays it a little too safe in regards to passing tones, but your progressions are solid enough, and things are interesting. A few chords I think would be more expressive with a different bass note, but solid work overall. Thanks man. The melody's actually my favorite part of this song, haha. Maybe it's not your cup of tea, but it definitely expresses what I set out to do, no? Check out the string break towards the end. There are a ton of grace-note passing tones. Regardless, does usage of passing tones (or lack thereof).. in itself make a good melody? This is the type of conversation I can appreciate. I'm glad you took things seriously enough to respect the deadline. I'm not as dismissive about you as I once was, and I think in a different context, without paragraphs upon paragraphs of text, we'd actually get along pretty well. Would anyone like to continue this discussion over AIM? We could actually make use of the chatroom function, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Nah I'm pretty burnt out on the actual discussion. I'd be cool with more song battles though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xRisingForce Posted May 23, 2008 Author Share Posted May 23, 2008 Nah I'm pretty burnt out on the actual discussion. I'd be cool with more song battles though! As for me, I wrote the song to prove myself- I don't feel a need to follow up with another. Why don't you contribute? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 I have a couple other projects on my plate at the moment, so I'm afraid I'll have to pass. Besides, I'm just a lowly performer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xRisingForce Posted May 23, 2008 Author Share Posted May 23, 2008 I have a couple other projects on my plate at the moment, so I'm afraid I'll have to pass.Besides, I'm just a lowly performer. Fair enough! I wouldn't argue with that anyway.. I would like to continue this discussion here: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16350 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarguru888 Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Yeah, u can definitely find a lot of info online for beginning guitar -- and most of it is free. All kinds of videos on youtube and stuff -- but beware.... I just got from the "beginner" level to the "intermediate" level -- but it was with help from an online course that I had to pay for. I had started with the free stuff but the problem was that I couldn't ORGANIZE the free lessons in any kind of moderately rational way.. I was always switching between various videos and there was no order to anything. So I was trying to do scales when I should have just been dealing with really basic picking technique and etc. So eventually I decided I need to do an actual online course -- http://consumerfilter.org/products/jamorama -- it actually worked pretty well! I might recommend you try it out. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tensei Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 A DRAMATIC READING OF THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THE SECOND POST OF THIS THREAD. http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/boxa/A-Dramatic-Reading-of-xrisingforcex [/effort] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xRisingForce Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 A DRAMATIC READING OF THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THE SECOND POST OF THIS THREAD. http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/boxa/A-Dramatic-Reading-of-xrisingforcex [/effort] I'm not gonna lie. This is tight. Edit: I'm downloading this and putting it on my iPod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xRisingForce Posted October 14, 2008 Author Share Posted October 14, 2008 classical performance is no different from a bunch of foreign laborers raising a building provided a blueprint, and even as obscure of an art form architecture is, i've never heard of anyone jizzing over the workforce and that's all reading sheet music is, following a blueprint, and the stricter the notations read the more similar various interpretations will be, to the point where there is no room for interpretation and it will merely be an embodiment of arrogance. it is both obscenely arrogant and futile to try and argue that anyone's interpretation of another's work could possibly house more validity than the composer's. to warp a pre-existing song and then argue that it is more valid than it was, or just as, no matter how open-minded i approach the situation, could only fall under arrogant faggotry yet in composing and arranging, as many/most of you have built and still seek your worth as a musician on the latter rather than the former, it seems you are all way too inclined to dismiss my words as those of a random stranger's (with, of course, the argumentative bolster of numbers), so you can continue to do what you do in your comfort zones think about it, it crosses over into pretty much every other art form. the only reason actors are a necessity to cinematography is because the quality of our cg does not yet cross over to believable reality (and because we cannot simulate realistic voices). in music however, soon enough using real instruments to record will be an obsolete relic of our past as the quality of samples are already blurring the line between artificiality and reality excellent performers are banal and a dime a dozen, extraneous and unnecessary, and just to answer someone from way back.. performance is NOT a requisite to the music making process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Gonna lock this. You already tried and failed to make your point before. No point in resurrecting a thread in order to rehash your tired, flawed arguments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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