Songs Always "Sound Like a Soundtrack"
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- KVRist
- 165 posts since 23 Aug, 2017
Why are you bothered about it? Scoring/soundtrack work is more interesting anyway, and there's more sonic territory to cover. With pop songs it's always "ok here's my intro, my verse, my chorus"...all the pieces have to fall in the right place, which just bores me as a listener and a composer. It always ends up sounding too familiar.
You can write "soundtracks" that have structure, it's just that the structure continuously morphs and plays with phrases, motifs, and cues rather than going back to a "lead" playing over a consistent rhythm. It's similar to how classical composers used to write movements, but now with sampling, synthesis and automation there is a lot more you can do texturally.
So don't sweat it. Texture and sound design is where the real frontier of music is, melody has been done to death and there isn't really anything left to explore there.
You can write "soundtracks" that have structure, it's just that the structure continuously morphs and plays with phrases, motifs, and cues rather than going back to a "lead" playing over a consistent rhythm. It's similar to how classical composers used to write movements, but now with sampling, synthesis and automation there is a lot more you can do texturally.
So don't sweat it. Texture and sound design is where the real frontier of music is, melody has been done to death and there isn't really anything left to explore there.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
Classical music and Soundtracks like yours are based more off scales and harmonies but do often have an underlying chord progression...
“So how are scales and harmonies different from chords?”
“pop” is going to feature something in front, a melody line or at least a vocal as the center of attention while the track in question doesn’t, so people relate it to another thing that ofttimes doesn’t
“So how are scales and harmonies different from chords?”
“pop” is going to feature something in front, a melody line or at least a vocal as the center of attention while the track in question doesn’t, so people relate it to another thing that ofttimes doesn’t