Superfast Beatmaking / 147 Ways To Write A Melody
Added 2016-10-14 01:38:17 +0000 UTCHey team, here are this week's videos!
Remember when I made a track in an hour out of YouTube clips that were upload in the past hour? I'm making it a series! (But replace "hour" with "day".) I thought this track came out pretty nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZAqCZ6iHWM
Also, I got 147 submissions for the finish-the-melody experiment from last week's video. After analyzing them all I did this breakdown / summary of what we all came up with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Ej4Jpquas
And when the video started to feel like it was gonna be way too long I put the rest in a blog post: http://andrewhuang.com/blog/2016/10/13/147-ways-to-write-a-melody
You can download the music from these two videos here.
Hope you enjoy!
$5+ patrons: chat will be happening tomorrow (Oct 14) at 10AM EST - I'll message you with the link soon.
Comments
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." (Pablo Picasso)
2016-12-11 07:40:28 +0000 UTCI've definitely found this to be true. Though I think to avoid being boxed in you do need to continually exercise your creativity. I've known some people who learned the "how" of the theory but not the "why", whose music making suffers in the way that the excuse in your example fears. It's a greater commitment to understand not just the theory but what it points to.
Andrew Huang
2016-10-14 11:04:38 +0000 UTCThis is a great response to the common excuse for not learning music theory; "If I learn theory I'll have to follow the rules and it will restrict my creativity". This experiment proves this to be false. There are so many ways to explore music. Theory allows you to understand what you're doing and open new avenues of creativity. It certainly does not force you to stick to a formula.
Patrick Haesler
2016-10-14 08:25:17 +0000 UTC
