I'm still trying to figure out my style. I want to combine all of the aspects of music I like and put them together, regardless of genre. I want to use rhythms and melodies, but I don't want them to be dancy. I want to make headphone music. Any advice on how I go about this?
The music's electronic, by the way.
Using rhythms and melodies without being dancy?
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
yeah, get busy banging out rhythm on something, get off the computer and get your hands on some bongos or something. Study rhythm, learn to read rhythm, see if there's something at the library or at the community college. Stay away from all the loops and construction kits, get your own sense of time together, follow the beat of your own uniqueness, but get your hands dirty...
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- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
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- KVRAF
- 7837 posts since 20 Jan, 2008
Jan has got a good instruction set. Asking that something not be dancy begs the question what is dance? I've seen some realy great dance performances using music that would not be considered dance. We cannot escape rhythm we can only choose rhythm when we do it becomes part of the definition process.
"Styles" aren't defined by keys they are defined by rhythms.
"Styles" aren't defined by keys they are defined by rhythms.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
seems like 'dance music' has meant 'four on the floor' for a lot of years. I never was inspired to dance by it. It's for people with no sense of rhythm to feel a pulse so they can ape moves from movies to, in the hope to get laid apparently.
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- KVRist
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- 136 posts since 1 Jun, 2009 from Colorado Springs, Colorado
Not always. British dance genres like Jungle or Garage have emphasized syncopation.jancivil wrote:seems like 'dance music' has meant 'four on the floor' for a lot of years.
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- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
hah teelah 
intepretive dance, group motion, dance outsie of the club paradigm, shucks, big band packed dancehalls without big drums.
i'll ponce myself - lots of fun
http://xoxos.bandcamp.com/track/my-girlfriend
liqih's demo for his synth, "little sea waves" is certainly in the genre of "electronic listening music"
that's why i posted nikmis. firmly defined by meter and key.
intepretive dance, group motion, dance outsie of the club paradigm, shucks, big band packed dancehalls without big drums.
i'll ponce myself - lots of fun
http://xoxos.bandcamp.com/track/my-girlfriend
liqih's demo for his synth, "little sea waves" is certainly in the genre of "electronic listening music"
that's why i posted nikmis. firmly defined by meter and key.
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.