Music Discussion thread

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@ Bridge, thanks for the honest critic here.
Trying to find myself in this and I know its rather low stuff.
I will work with these tracks, try to build them up.
Thats always the problem I have, as you said, mostly uninteresting, and if its good, it gets boring
because I dont know what to put in there next :/

So hard for me to make stuff interesting. Any more tips for this?

edit: I guess I have to put more time in it mostly Im done in ~2hrs with my tracks :/

I have plenty of modest tips but you know what they say: teach a man to fish etc. Really you just have to do some in-depth study of music in general. Start with reading everything you can about motives and themes. Then analyze some works you consider to be interesting and non-boring and apply your knowledge to that. Find out exactly what the composer does to keep it interesting. How he varies the themes and contrasts them. Then there is the separate study of orchestration which is arguably more involved and complex.

Most important of all though, train your ear. There are a million ways to do this but probably the best way to get started is to take melodies you know and try to figure out what the notes are without using a computer or instrument. When you're starting out you can sing them but try and get beyond that and do it entirely in your mind (that will yield the best results). This video is actually not a bad introduction:





Memorize how each note of the major scale (best to keep it simple at first) sounds in relation to the tonic and then use that as a reference to figure out melodies. I guarantee, everything else will be 10x easier if you develop your ear (even if you only do it casually for 15 minutes a day).

It's a lot of work but hey, that's why we're all doing this right? Hope my rambling helped even a little bit.