havent been producing lately
ive found new love for playing electronic drumkit........ playlist of 500 songs and i abstract play drums over the top of it. i have about 200-500hrs experience with this type of learning. i would say its a good way of learning percussion but i like abstract. mostly, i skip songs in the playlist that are 4/4 drums. anything hip hop or rap or trap is a lot more fun to play along with. it carries over into my piano playing a lot, i noticed last night after playing half hour of drums then into piano... the piano playing was way different, playing some weirder or completely new rhythms on the notes
i need to cull the playlist into hip hop songs i think caus its not 500 songs its 10000 songs or something im pressin N ON VLC a bit too much...
i listened to russian pop top hits playlist today... it was all shit. why is russian pop music crap on youtube playlist i was listening, used to be good maybe i got the wrong playlist
has anyone heard any real good music released in last 2 yrs? i cant think of much. i liked 10:35 by tiesto but thats some pop. has a cool music video too. im down for any genre id just try and shoe horn it into the last 2 yrs
im opening a drum school, pick a random 2 limbs (6 options total) and play drums over music u listen to. (probably trap music for best results caus trap got only good drums these days)
by limbs i mean pick right arm and left foot pedal and just play left foot pedal and any drum with right hand for 5 min over trap music, then switch the 2 limbs to another of the total 6 combinations
if youre playing e.g. left hand and left foot, put righthanded drumstick on ground and take right foot off right pedal and place next to pedal on ground so you dont throw in right hand and right foot without thinking about it while doing exercise. exercise is jam abstractly over edmtrap music mix etc. helps if youve listened to the music before, school for abstract drumming. think with this method you learn rudiments naturally and you get really great coordination between each 2 limbs around all the drums, coordination and speed between each pair of limbs
sad piano, made by clicking into computer. i felt a lil inspired while making this
this is weird track because it was clicked in piano notes but theres a lot of automation for just one piano. theres overdrive automation from 0-4% at one point. theres ott automation. theres eq peak automation. utility automations as well. some velocities. had the 1 minute loop going and automated stuff to taste! valhalla shimmer reverb
wrote a track bout staying up late
many thanx to onezero for hosting streak... many thanx to streak participants for inspo... many thanx to overlord leafo for creating website...
2 minute track which im gonna count as normal length track. the tutorial for this track is make a 1 minute track, copy and paste all instruments and change a few things... not that anyone on this streak needs a tutorial on making trax!
vocal from eliminate cyber vocals vol 1 pack... mostly still drumming atm... got bored of drumming over music so now i just drum to the sound of quiet... i think its better... can really flex without music...
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lately ive exclusively been drumming over the music i listen to, this was a bit weird for me
[Volume Warning] NOT MIXED bit suddenly loud in a couple transitions, esp drop
another unfinished sketch ill prob never finish
liked the progression on this. its about as simple as it gets. bassline is 6-6-1-1.... anything with 6 and 1 always gonna be a progression i like. i might stick to a few simple progressions like this and make a lot of ideas.... need to add more elements and flesh out these more
idk if these type of melodies work that well with trap drums... might try make more 4/4 drums. i always think the melodies i write work better with 4/4 drums, then i get bored of making 4/4 drum music so ill prob just keep swapping back and forth between 4/4 and trap drum. or i could try and learn to write specifically melodies for trap drums
[Volume Warning] NOT MIXED bit suddenly loud in a couple transitions, esp drop
trailerish music, open to roast.
dunno bout the high pitched oboes.... the way the drums come in kind of shit... drums in general kind of shit... chords could have used different voicings in places esp in lower-frequencies... piano in intro prob been better as different instrument... melod/ies fairly trash... liked making the drums and fx arrangement
using a randomizer to decide chord progressions. the randomizer picks 4 chords. has 3 paths. either 1 - 1 - x - x, 1 - x - x - x, or x - x - 1 - 1. decent amount of the music i listen to fits in one of these 3 progression formats, maybe ~30-60% idk. the x's can be any bass note. but usually have to run the randomizer 1-4 times before it spits out a decent chord progression... this is just for minor chord progression songs... 1 being root note of minor scale
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lazy post took 20 minutes sounds like shit. only thing i liked bout this one was the cinematic buildup like dsh dsh dsh dsh d d d d....... just from cinematic sample pack but lots of those cinematic riser/woosh/impact samples fo pretty hard. actually was cinematic sample but then just cut it up with silence for the d d d d part. apart from that critique on this one is boring track added 10 seconds of garbage at the end to make it one minute long. the garbage at the end might be the part i like more bout htis
3rd and 4th file upload was gonna be trying to make a zeropass type track... ended up just sounding like what i usually make, but with triangle wave. not used to portamento, might be good for arps. used everywhere theres an artist called mitis uses lots of portamento in his arps... and leads... havent got the hang of writing for portamento leads. liked the vocal quality of triangle wave
making lots of 16bar intro 16bar buildup 16bar drop 140-165bpm atm. probably almost jumpscare on drop caus of silence. want to work more on drums. might try make these with no instruments and just drums and fx. feel like if i made 100 16bar intro buildup drop just with drums n fx would probably learn a lot
apparently aliens exist grusch is prob alien too im prob alien we all prob alien or monkey frog. idk why the audio print of this came out so low volume rip. been using spitfires free 'labs' plugin for things such as the glockenspiel, choir in this. its pretty good has low ram usage and a couple cool lil packs u can download for free
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Tried to stick to what comes easiest - basic chord progression with piano.
I've been using the valhalla shimmer reverb frequently, finding it inspiring with the long reverb tails from this plugin. Also being inspired by trailer music.
Open to roast. I can't really figure out how to MIX everything... EQing in general... maybe also if i tweak even one of the track volumes itll mess up e.g. a grouptrack saturation etc. probably need to plan out tracks more as i make them and make sure things arent clipping more often. the grouptrack saturation is something i saw in a fox stevenson stream. saturating the lead and bass together and it sounds pretty gnarly having them both go into the same saturator... but then makes mixing harder maybe. i mean ive already got reverb and other distortion on the lead before its getting this saturation with the bass... might need to rethink signal flow to use this technique. anyway im happy with this small step of progress making a 1min 45 track. the chord progression is 6-7-1-1 if 1 is the rootnote of minor scale... think its used quite a lot in modern electronic music. pretty sure theres a lil nas x song with this progression... virtual self porter robinson song has this bass progression... i guess its just a bassline so the chord progression might be something completely different... but its a nice simple bass progression. the 1 doesnt hit til the end of it its always moving forward
first post, made a small track. i liked the lead in this (square wave with saw wave 1 octave higher then distorted reverbed).... and had some fun pitch shifting the drop and low passing the drop at the end of 4 bar sections.
looking ideally for constructive feedback... whats the weakest aspect of the track... what needs improve... these are the types of feedback id ask for
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@Kedbreak136 thanks for the feedback. gotta make something longer! choir is output exhale
I like how the track opens at 0:40. What is the choir like sound you're using? I kinda wished the track was longer, it feels like the teaser to a very cool epic track.
with drums it looks like a lot of people recommend learning rudiments early... ive looked at a lot of the rudiments and they all require pretty much incredible speed... i feel like its kind of boring to just play rudiments over and over. if you play along to music a lot and then also just play abstract without playing over music i think you naturally get faster. maybe after ive got more speed some of the rudiments might be useful. the rudiments remind me a lot of piano scales, piano scales kind of useless imo.... you get better at playing the scale and it doesnt really apply to actual playing really at all... i think rudiments are probably a lot better than scales but you dont learn swapping between different drum sounds for different fills/grooves and you still dont learn the coordination between all 4 limbs from the rudiemtns. i think if playing along to music at a variety of bpms the speed will pick up more gradually over time without having to mindlessly repeat rudiment exercises......... idk i think rudiments are probably pretty useful... probably way more useful than scales at least. although scales might be more for beginners where rudiments might be better for intermediates. maybe scales is good if you cant play anything at all, cant remember. i can play most the rudiments at moderate speed i guess so idk maybe it would be useful to do them a little bit
maybe something similar to rudiments would be to just create some drum groove from maybe 3 or 4 drums... then repeat that for 30s/minute, gradually getting faster. i might try do that when not playing along with music
yea idk bout rudiments might be useful later on... i think id probably be more often doing something like creating groove out of 3 4 drums and repeating that groove faster and faster instead. the amount of exercises you could create with that is pretty infinite and would be using a lot of what rudiments are
looked at some sheet music for drumming pop rock songs... doesnt look like a way id enjoy learning. goes repeat the same groove for 16 bars then do a fill then into another groove then another fill another 16 bars. then thats pretty much it, just repeat those two 16 bar chunks pretty much. i feel like not variety enough for me... just repeating the same thing over and over feels like a slow way to learn all the different grooves etc. any method of learning where have to stop playing caus messed up one note is just gonna be boring af. idk what else you could focus on with that type of learning.... its the same with piano and sheet music where ppl learn to play something outright and the only thing u can focus on is getting slightly better dynamics than last time, and then the only thing u can focus on is playing the notes as they are at the exact speed they should be played or slower then faster, feels a bit mindless to have that much repetition without trying anything new. i guess you could randomly change elements of the sheet music on the fly but then why not just go full abstract idk. sheet music would be good once i can play well at speed.... ( and sight read the sheet music at speed)... still pretty uncoordinated at drums to be able to play some fill i havent played before easily at speed or nail a groove for 16 bars into a fill then into another groove.... drum sheet music probably good once already advanced level at drums is what i reckon atm.
dont think it would take long to learn to sight read drums either... after maybe 200+ songs i think ud start being able to sight read it pretty well... although idk how well you can sight read some complex fill etc./new complex groove on the fly if its a lot of notes in a very short space of time... id guess that after seeing a couple hundred sheet music playings youd be able to read that type of thing at speed
drum sheet music would be something id be interested in. iano sheet music a lot old af music from the middle ages or stone henge and mobach drum sheet music more something id listen to anyway
if i were to try learning sight reading piano.. prob want to sight read chord progressions .. dunno if people transcribe just chord progressions for piano so idk that exists. not really into jazz or classical or any genre of piano to want to learn sight reading for piano beyond the chord progressions type level idk if that would even be good... sight reading chord progression type things... yea idk if people transcribe piano like that.. they prob more do arpeggios etc.. prob too specific notes
i feel the drums playing carries over into piano playing with new rhythms. dont think it works much the other way around from piano into drums beyond just basics of basic sense of rhythm and timing etc.... yea drums carries over into piano quite a bit. both are percussive instruments i guess... similar in that way. nice thing about drums is its almost a physical exercise... cant really think of a more physical instrument. kind of unique instrument in that... i guess drums was first instrument. unless some nut job monkey was twanging grass in his fingers. so id probably call GRASS first instrument drums 2nd instrument. or vocals might be first instrument. nah grass wouldnt make sound.... is there any string instrument can do 2 or 3 notes just from ripping a plant out of the ground.... maybe.... if u got a long tropical green leaf.... and twanged it from curved to flat.... that would prob make a tone... maybe that was up there with first instruments. could u make a shitty guitar out of just plants.... have some plant for the string/s... yea idk theres prob a documentary on what they think first instrument would have been... would a lot of them been too unlikely to be preserved in fossils... especially if an instrument just made of plant matter probably even less likely to be fossilized... or plant and sinews.... maybe there was string instruments in cave man times maybe there have been fossils
prob should have recorded some drums idk cbf hooking it up to midi. pro tip for midi latency without dedicated soundcard is u can up sample rate to 192000 or whatever the max is.... get the fl studio asio driver... it comes with the free demo version of fl studio.... then u have 0 millisecond midi input latency without having to get a soundcard. results may vary probably depends on some other random hardware specifications of ur computer... but fl studio asio driver + 192k sample rate daw setting is pretty good. im not sure it is 0 ms havent used it much. just dont forget to turn back down to 41k sample rate when u r done caus it eats cpu