How to find out my style?

[xoxos]

Now come on, there was never any "genius", just because someone was capable. It only looks that way because people don't know who they are.

*winner*

or even more sadly, because they do "know" who they are

[chaosWyrM]

Do what all the pros do. Use "Deluxe StyleMaker Pro - Deep House Edition." After selecting a few options, it generates Ableton templates in your own personal style. It's a huge time saver and lets you focus on the more important aspects of style: haircuts and sunglasses.

does that come in 64 bit?

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

If the man is making deep house music, that's probably on purpose. I am not so sure it helps recommending him to listen to other genres. Sounds more like he is looking for ways to distinguish himself within the deep house realm.

People not looking outside their own sub-genre (or outside of dance music in general) is why most edm sounds like derivative, paint-by-numbers, bullshit. If you are happy to be dripfed your musical aesthetic by other artists who also close their ears to centuries of musical history, then go for it. I don't see why you would encourage others to back themselves into such a corner

It's like someone going to a carpentry forum, and declaring themselves a carpenter who only makes tables. Nothing wrong in specialisation, but it would be a lie to tell such a person that nothing worthwhile could be gained from looking at how cupboards are made; or, heavens forbid, a chair

While i think the whole minor-deviation-in-given-style-as-whole-new-sub-genre thing within edm is stupid, is it not the case that those who have a broader musical aesthetic are the ones who are creating the new genres ??

Dance music, by definition, only has to satisfy a few basic requirements (primarily, being danceable), but whenever there is even the slightest hint of chord, harmony and melody, it might serve the composer to extend their sphere of musical influence wider than someone who's only interaction with melody comes from entering notes by mouse onto the piano roll of some cracked daw, or other **

I would be very surprised if the shepherds who are leading these specific-genre flocks, have such self-limiting beliefs
















** nothing inherently wrong with entering notes into a daw with a mouse

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Actually, scrub that. Seems the op isn't courteous or grateful enough to bother to respond to contributions in his threads, requesting advice. From his post history, it is not the first time

Fed up with these ungrateful little shits

May he continue to create stlye-less, derivative, sheeple crap

[fluffy_little_something]

Well, but maybe it is like with evolution. Bats didn't grow wings because they looked at birds and thought to themselves, wow, flying, that is cool, let's grow some wings Each species basically develops from within so to speak, adapting to the environment and pressures. In music that pressure might be having to set oneself apart from the masses.

And yes, I agree it is unfriendly not to reply to people in one's own thread

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Well, but maybe it is like with evolution. Bats didn't grow wings because they looked at birds and thought to themselves, wow, flying, that is cool, let's grow some wings Each species basically develops from within so to speak, adapting to the environment and pressures. In music that pressure might be having to set oneself apart from the masses.

And yes, I agree it is unfriendly not to reply to people in one's own thread

it is up to each individual to decide whether imposing arbitrary restraints will work out well for them. my issue is with other people trying to impose them. my recommending people to widen their sphere of listening is for the cumulative effects of taking in all that musicality at a subconscious level, as opposed to searching out the possibility of fusing diametric styles (although try telling avicii that opening his mind to country music would be a bad idea)

anyway, the whole idea of setting yourself apart from others in a genre these days is impossible. the minute you actually do something a little different, you create a whole new sub-genre. it's actually surreal to watch. you have to follow the paint-by-numbers rules of your particular genre, or it's not the same genre anymore. change the tempo by 3bpm...new genre...add 10% swing...new genre....this genre needs x type of bleepy-bleep, otherwise....new genre...forgot to leave a note for the miklman...new genre..cat takes a shit behind your monitors...new genre

[fluffy_little_something]

Well, subconsciously I guess we all ARE exposed to other genres as well, for instance on TV and on the radio.

Yes, genres are quite specific these days, I hardly know any of them anymore. The differences are too subtle for me to get, especially if it is not my type (a rather generic term ) of music anyway.

[whyterabbyt]

Well, but maybe it is like with evolution. Bats didn't grow wings because they looked at birds and thought to themselves, wow, flying, that is cool, let's grow some wings Each species basically develops from within so to speak, adapting to the environment and pressures.

But biological evolution is a very specific mechanism, whereas for cultural or artistic forms, no such mechanisms actually exist. Furthermore biological evolution is constrained to tiny variances from the existing DNA of the parents, something which bery specifically limits the source of 'information' that goes fom one generation.
Meanwhile, too small a pool of genetic variance is dangerous for a species as it leads to excessive reinforcement of poor traits. Meanwhile 'too much' variation becomes speciation; the ability to breed with the parent populace is lost.
The evolution of cultural forms, in contrast, has always relied on multiple sources of influence, and the information flow encompasses facets from all cultural forms (ie art, literature, philosophy all influence music). And there's no equivalent to speciation at all; the distinctions between genres are always fluid and arbitrary.
In evolutionary terms, it seems what you're arguing for is inbreeding.

[fluffy_little_something]

Speciation might resemble what occurs with all those zillion of genres these days. Someone changes a detail and all of a sudden people clearly tell the original and the variant apart...

Depends, in some remote places people only know their own music. Nor is there any danger with sticking to the same music, unlike with genes. As long as people like to listen to their good old music, why change it? I guess it is only a certain percentage of people that are interested in making or listening to new stuff.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I guess it is only a certain percentage of people that are interested in making or listening to new stuff.

as evidenced by the over-saturation of the music scene with 'me too', derivative nonsense

[4damind]

A style is something which is developed with every new track you made. There is no shortcut for this, you must produce many tracks and after some time you and others hear some similarities with every new track and this is your own style

There are always ideas and knowledge you share with your songs after some time. The style how you make drums, how you use chord progressions, (transition) effects you use and which you like (and use in most tracks). All this will be a part of your style and which makes you different from others. There is also often some kind of "signature sound" so people hear this and have instantly the right artist in mind.

A style is also not set in stone, many artists developing after some years a bit different style, sometimes they producing also in a different genre. All is permanently in change.