Modern Composing Thread

[GPBear]

Particularly Schoenberg and Stockhausen.

Pretty white thread, but I think it's good to expand horizons, and considering there's a thread called "Ever made a beat while watching PORN" I think so heady, high-minded bullshyt will even it out...

Anyways, if you make a write a song, a beat, whatever, usually there's a "root" note, and using a traditional progression, a couple more notes build off of the root. For example, you play a song on the guitar and it goes 'C-F-G'. The root note and progression you use determine which key you're playing in.

But what if you used every note in the scale equally. Then there is no key, it's atonal.
And that was Schoenberg's idea (he called it pantonal).

Stockhausen was influential in being one of the first composers to use electronics in his music accessed from scientific innovations made for WWII radio frequencies/radar. Things that we use today like modulators or what have you.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I always keep my notes within the scale but i do sometimes use 8 notes in a scale.

I usually start with a few chords and than make a scale with 7 or 8 notes that are used in those chords.
and than adjust the notes from the chords if they don't match in my scale.
to make the rest of my song.

I really don't have any musical theory knowledge though.

 

[ibrokemyneck]

well.. there's so many cases to use roots and scales tho. you can consider it different modes i suppose too.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

tbh i just hit keys that sound good, idk really anything bout scales n shyt like that

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

tbh i just hit keys that sound good, idk really anything bout scales n shyt like that

Me neither but i do know a song scale is usually 7 notes so i turn on "ghost channels" in the Piano Roll in FL Studio and make a scale for the song so i won't play the wrong notes.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

Me neither but i do know a song scale is usually 7 notes so i turn on "ghost channels" in the Piano Roll in FL Studio and make a scale for the song so i won't play the wrong notes.

hmm, ill try this.. *looks up ghost channels fl studio

 

[mortuus est]

yeahhhh i know nothing about scales and stufff, pretty much just do things based on sound, if that string sound connects and sounds good with this black key string then im good

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

dope. it's not a white thread at all

Project Gutenberg
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Lessons in Music Form, by Percy Goetschius
Theres a book on music theory in the 2nd link. I've been reading it, it's good.
the first link is a list of books on music. how to sing, biographies of famous composers and even one on black musicians who were gifted in the late 1800's who studied no music. There's also books on how to play instruments as well.

@Uncle Grime.
@Ayo!-BEZ

 

[GPBear]

I think we all start out banging keys and messing with buttons, but at some point you have to learn.

Knowledge, wisdom, understanding, culture/freedom.
As they used to say. Maybe I'm the only one who took Brand Nubian and the Native Tongues seriously.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Never listened to brand nubians or native tongues (iont think).

 

[XII]

Everything I do ends up in D minor

Help Me

 

[GPBear]

Everything I do ends up in D minor

Help Me

Modulation, breh.

Look at the notes in D-minor, see what the pattern of half-steps and whole-steps, then apply that pattern starting on a note other than D.