Melodies/ Riffs... whatever!

[green plan]

read this http://ravenspiral.com/rsg2mt/rsg2mt.pdf

print it out and bind it and keep it by your workplace.

it really is an excellent beginners theory guide for people who cant read music.

That is so wicked. Taught me a lot of what I know about music now.

[decree]

read this http://ravenspiral.com/rsg2mt/rsg2mt.pdf

print it out and bind it and keep it by your workplace.

it really is an excellent beginners theory guide for people who cant read music.

nice one
but what i really want to say is YOUR TUNE IS COMPLETELY AMAZING!!!!!!!!
(cuttlefish)

[Hurtdeer]

learn music theory. Learn how to write music not dubstep

theory is really just an old practice designed around the music of Bach in order to cement what they thought where the strongest musical ideas at the time. Not to say it isn't useful now but it's hardly obligatory. the rules about harmony and parallel 5ths are practically completely ignorable now in modern music

[stappard]

I don't want to be taught how to come up with a melody, if I couldn't think up melodies then I'd give up straight away lol- I can come up with them in my head all day long, it's just I can't transfer the melody from my head to the keyboard as I have no real knowledge of keyboards/ instruments/ scales/ chords etc...

I think the scales thing is definitely something I need to have a good read of.

cheers.

Trying singing the things you're thinking of and record yourself. Then go back and transpose them onto a synth.

[stappard]

learn music theory. Learn how to write music not dubstep

theory is really just an old practice designed around the music of Bach in order to cement what they thought where the strongest musical ideas at the time. Not to say it isn't useful now but it's hardly obligatory. the rules about harmony and parallel 5ths are practically completely ignorable now in modern music

Not quite true. If you ignore harmony you still end up with poop. Modern dance music may not quite fit so strictly to the rules of a Bach chorale but its not completely random.

[Hurtdeer]

learn music theory. Learn how to write music not dubstep

theory is really just an old practice designed around the music of Bach in order to cement what they thought where the strongest musical ideas at the time. Not to say it isn't useful now but it's hardly obligatory. the rules about harmony and parallel 5ths are practically completely ignorable now in modern music

Not quite true. If you ignore harmony you still end up with poop. Modern dance music may not quite fit so strictly to the rules of a Bach chorale but its not completely random.

i'm not saying it's random. i'm just saying that if theory is still really all that relevant, it could do with a massive rewrite and take different forms and styles into account, and also accept that what we think the rules are now aren't really gonna be as important to us in a couple of centuries

...and you can ignore the supposed rules harmony and not end up with poop. hell, most modern music does, particularly any dissonant, tense dubstep you might have heard recently

[alphacat]

You can't break the rules if you don't know what they are in the first place.

[iambullet]

Wise words. Plus, classical training doesn't teach you random shit but stuff that sounds GOOD in the first place. Sure, some thing or another might apply to stuf you write ona piano or shit like that but in general, knowing your chords/intervals/mommy is good for your music.

[zitanb]

You can't break the rules if you don't know what they are in the first place.

Lol and + 1 to playing an instrument - particularly the piano/keyboard. Scales and chords = win. Z.

[Hurtdeer]

You can't break the rules if you don't know what they are in the first place.

It's a nice saying and i'd like to believe it because it's exactly what i did- but I'd wager that a lot of our collective favorite artists haven't got a clue about the rules

and to be honest, to me it seems like music doesn't really have rules other than what does or doesn't work in a certain society. so long as someone enjoys it.

[3za]

You can't bend the rules if you don't know what they are in the first place.

fixed