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Ildon · Post by **Ildon** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:24 pm

jackson wrote:No I'm not. So either I'm not or we both are.

You're a strange dude.

I think I'm definitely a little

today.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:28 pm

Structure?

jackson · Post by **jackson** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:30 pm

Ildon wrote:
jackson wrote:No I'm not. So either I'm not or we both are.
You're a strange dude.

I think I'm definitely a little today.

Dude, it's Friday afternoon, I'm hungover and I'm stuck at work.

If that's not a good enough excuse to make strange posts, I don't know what is

God I need a beer.

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:32 pm

Another quite interesting thread!

Often I have a groove first, or a melody or just a programmed patch and then.....

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:36 pm

Hink wrote:just follow it where it goes

Sorry Hink but zen advice isn't helping me right now

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:39 pm

Take this track for example:

track 01

Its been on my hard drive for weeks now in this state. I don't know where to take it or where it wants me to take it. I don't have any other ideas for it, and at the moment its just any other finished track... but I want it to be closer to completion.

There lies my dilema.. I get a few ideas, but I can't seem to follow them through.

I think perhaps I listen to too much music.

jackson · Post by **jackson** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:41 pm

Amberience wrote:I think perhaps I listen to too much music.

There's worse things you could do

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:41 pm

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:51 pm

Amberience wrote:
Hink wrote:just follow it where it goes
Sorry Hink but zen advice isn't helping me right now

that's not zen

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:53 pm

Hink wrote:
Amberience wrote:
Hink wrote:just follow it where it goes
Sorry Hink but zen advice isn't helping me right now
that's not zen

lol, I know.

Ildon · Post by **Ildon** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:56 pm

Amberience wrote:Take this track for example:

track 01

Its been on my hard drive for weeks now in this state. I don't know where to take it or where it wants me to take it. I don't have any other ideas for it, and at the moment its just any other finished track... but I want it to be closer to completion.

There lies my dilema.. I get a few ideas, but I can't seem to follow them through.

I think perhaps I listen to too much music.

Sometimes that happens and there's nothing you can do about it. Sometimes it happens and you can take the song further and it's just a matter of putting together another section and fixing the previous section to make it flow better. If you feel you can't take the song anywhere else and you've expressed yourself fully... then don't worry about unless the song is only a minute or minute and a half long (unless you're doing video game music.)

flippya2000 · Post by **flippya2000** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:57 pm

Amberience wrote:Its been on my hard drive for weeks now in this state. I don't know where to take it or where it wants me to take it. I don't have any other ideas for it, and at the moment its just any other finished track... but I want it to be closer to completion.

There lies my dilema.. I get a few ideas, but I can't seem to follow them through.

I quite liked this track Amberience, just thought it should've ended at 3.04/5 - No need to do anything else to it IMO!

Structure is one of the hardest things for me too. My advice for any1 would be to listen to your favourite tracks & summarise their structure & then try to emulate this - not to copy their work - just to get used to how your favourite tracks are structured. From here you can mix up different structures & perhaps make something up of your own. Still this is v.time consuming & hard work..

jens · Post by **jens** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:59 pm

Amberience wrote:Take this track for example:

track 01

Its been on my hard drive for weeks now in this state. I don't know where to take it or where it wants me to take it. I don't have any other ideas for it, and at the moment its just any other finished track... but I want it to be closer to completion.

sounds mighty fine to me

- it probably won't help you much but I knew exactly where it would like to go with me...

I think there solo is a bit shit though and doesn't fit there... - but that's just my opinion...

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:05 pm

I don't know how... but I just got something I like with this track, a different section with a different feel to what's there currently, but for me, it still works.

Talk about coincidences!! I swear I've been trying to get something going to extend this track ... I think I've got something now.

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:09 pm

jens wrote: I think there solo is a bit shit though and doesn't fit there... - but that's just my opinion...

I think I know what you mean. It was rushed and I don't like the tone of it at all. I think the actual notes themselves work, but it could maybe do with a different tone and some delay perhaps.

How do you structure a song??