Intro To Music Concepts

Ask anybody who the greatest guitar players in the history of rock music are, and you'll likely get the standard answers. Sometimes however all the time spent on great lyrics can be lost if the music doesn't caress them in the right places. It's the easiest thing you can do to make your beats sound more complete” and is what I wanted you to notice in the second video from yesterday's lesson.

You can put Captain Chords on a new MIDI channel inside Ableton Live, Captain Melody on your Melody channel, and so on. Captain Plugins are like smaller versions of Odesi that run inside your favorite DAW like Ableton Live or Logic. In our song, the sense of key is created by the notes played on the guitar and double bass, and the notes sung by Nat.

I've already alluded to the creative use of stereo space by ambient composers, and once listening strategy I enjoy is to visualize a spherical area extending around my ears and in front of me, in offset type beat instrumental which I track sounds as they originate and dissipate within this field.

Compose the notes inside Captain Chords, but play them with your favorite synth. Layer multiple tracks and sound to create rich tracks. It would be no surprise then that to write a song is simply to set your poetry to music. To keep things simple, I will make a lot of generalizations and describe music much more generally than I would like to. In particular, you should be aware that music does not have to have beats, chords, and other structures we will describe.

Arpeggios: a melody where the notes of a chord are played one after the other. Just a rhythm background (A.K.A. beat”) and rhythmic spoken word rhymed on top of it, sometimes prewritten, and often improvised. If you start with just a tune or melody and then add lyrics to it or vice versa, start with a line or two and then sing the lines.