Any musicians on GGD?

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11 hours ago, PeterPan said:

My friend personally I think has a gr8 voice.  This is an old crappy recording from 2011 I havent recorded her in a long time

What do ya'll think

 

I think your friend has a great solid foundation of a voice, and it's really cool how comfortable she is just singing. It was soothing to listen to in her own way. 

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I think it's really great that there are a lot of people here trying to work on their music. It's beautiful. I've been writing lyrics and singing melodies to them, trying to learn piano and guitar, but it's been a bit overwhelming to do sometimes, so I just end up writing more than anything. Does anyone know of any great beginning tutorials?

And I'm not the only one, but yeah producing a song is more of what I need to learn and work on. Any pointers?

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22 minutes ago, Vodka said:

I think it's really great that there are a lot of people here trying to work on their music. It's beautiful. I've been writing lyrics and singing melodies to them, trying to learn piano and guitar, but it's been a bit overwhelming to do sometimes, so I just end up writing more than anything. Does anyone know of any great beginning tutorials?

And I'm not the only one, but yeah producing a song is more of what I need to learn and work on. Any pointers?

Wish I knew. I cant even write decent lyrics lol. And im tone deaf. But theres lots of talent on here who can help!

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52 minutes ago, Vodka said:

I think it's really great that there are a lot of people here trying to work on their music. It's beautiful. I've been writing lyrics and singing melodies to them, trying to learn piano and guitar, but it's been a bit overwhelming to do sometimes, so I just end up writing more than anything. Does anyone know of any great beginning tutorials?

And I'm not the only one, but yeah producing a song is more of what I need to learn and work on. Any pointers?

Do you know any music theory?  Because knowing a little of that will help a lot when you're writing stuff  

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22 minutes ago, JustaMonster said:

Do you know any music theory?  

You know what. I'm not sure, and I guess that means no. I do know* the parts of the instruments, like the guitar, the piano. The keys, the frets, bars. Notes, the number of beats and counting them. I used to be able to play simple songs on the piano with sheet music so there's that.

I can't tho, tell you which note is what by merely hearing it being sung, but I can Do Re Mi it, and figure out flats and sharps. 

Honestly I feel like I'm complicating the answer, no shade, but is that part of it? Like I know there's more right? 

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Does anyone have any decent programs where I can tinker with instruments and make my own beats? How does that aspect of music making work? And like, the legalities behind it?

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1 minute ago, Vodka said:

You know what. I'm not sure, and I guess that means a no. I do the parts of the instruments, like the guitar, the piano. The keys, the frets, bars. Notes, the number of beats and counting them. I used to be able to play simple songs on the piano with sheet music so there's that.

I can't tho, tell you which note is what be merely hearing it being sung, but I can Do Re Mi it, and figure out flats and sharps. 

Honestly I feel like I'm complicating the answer, no shade, but is that part of it? Like I know there's more right? 

Dont worry almost no one can listen to a note and tell you if its an a or b or whatever. Thats called perfect pitch and I think only like 1/10,000 people have it. But I guess what I recommend is learning how the major scale is formed because its the basis for almost all western music theory. This is gonna be hard for me to explain because im not a very good teacher

Ok, so there are 12 notes that make up and octave and the major scale uses 7 of these notes. On a piano if you start on the note C and you play all of the white keys until you get up to another C note then those are the notes for the major scale in C. If you look you will obviously notice that there are some black keys missing inbetween some of the white keys. And there is this "pattern" for the major scale.

You start off on the first note C, then you skip a note (This would be the black key, c#, in the c scale) and then you play the white key which is D. Then you skip another note and play the next white key E. But then for the transition between the 3rd and the 4th note of the scale you dont skip a note and there is no black key to skip here so you just play the next white key which if F. For the next 3 notes of the scale you skip 1 note between them so you would play G A B. And by this point you will have played all 7 notes of the scale and to get back to the beginning you go up only 1 key, meaning you dont skip one here.

So bascially you skip a key between every note except for the transition between 3-4 and 7 back to the key you started off at (The octave).

If you learn this pattern you dont have to think of each scale as something different you have to memorize you can just move this pattern around starting off on the note you want. So if you wanted to play the D major scale you just use this pattern except start on D (There are black keys other scales though C is the only one with only white keys)

So by learning this scale it lets you do a lot of stuff like for example if you want to play a major chord all you have to do is play the 1st note the 3rd note and the 5th note of the scale at the same time. There is also a ton of other stuff but I dont want to overwhelm you

Sorry if I'm bad at explaining this but if you have any questions about it just ask and Ill try to help  

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39 minutes ago, Vodka said:

You know what. I'm not sure, and I guess that means a no. I do the parts of the instruments, like the guitar, the piano. The keys, the frets, bars. Notes, the number of beats and counting them. I used to be able to play simple songs on the piano with sheet music so there's that.

I can't tho, tell you which note is what be merely hearing it being sung, but I can Do Re Mi it, and figure out flats and sharps. 

Honestly I feel like I'm complicating the answer, no shade, but is that part of it? Like I know there's more right? 

Oh and I definitely recommend trying to learn this stuff on a piano. Its a million times harder on a guitar but the theory behind it does translate over to a guitar is just way harder to visualize

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4 minutes ago, JustaMonster said:

 

Oh ok cool, I thought it was some sort of requirement 

So a scale is basically like a set of 7 notes, plus the same one of a higher (or lower?) octave.

I think I know what you're saying, when it comes to the scales they're a range of notes that usually go together well, Western Music theory got it, and that it's basically these scales that you use to form a melody. I think I'm gonna have to google what you just said, bc altho the Cmajor scale sounds simple enough, I don't think I'm fully grasping the whole 3-4 to 7 pattern that ya mentioned, but I'll try actually doing them and see what I find out.

I got it, or I at least I think I did..the explanation was pretty understandable, no worries, and thank u btw :)) 

So then wait. what do song keys change in all of that? Like I feel it's going to have a profound change on things 

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1 minute ago, Vodka said:

Oh ok cool, I thought it was some sort of requirement 

So a scale is basically like a set of 7 notes, plus the same one of a higher (or lower?) octave.

I think I know what you're saying, when it comes to the scales they're a range of notes that usually go together well, Western Music theory got it, and that it's basically these scales that you use to form a melody. I think I'm gonna have to google what you just said, bc altho the Cmajor scale sounds simple enough, I don't think I'm fully grasping the whole 3-4 to 7 pattern that ya mentioned, but I'll try actually doing them and see what I find out.

I got it, or I at least I think I did..the explanation was pretty understandable, no worries, and thank u btw :)) 

So then wait. what do song keys change in all of that? Like I feel it's going to have a profound change on things 

Ok maybe this will make it easier There are things called Tones and Semitones (these can also be called whole and half steps ) and basicially a Tone/whole step is when you skip 1 note. For example a tone would be C to D (skipping c#) and a semitone/half step would just be C to C#. So to put the pattern in another way its T-T-S-T-T-T-S

Here it is for the C major scale. In my opinion the easiest way to remember is just remember that from 3-4 you only go up a half step and then from 7 back to the octave you only go up a half step as well.

And yeah basically a songs key is based on the "root note" which is for the most part just the note that you start on in the scale. So the root note for the key of C is C, which is the note that you would start the scale on. 

And when you change keys (from C to D for example) you basically just move up the pattern and start it on D and use the D scale.

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1 minute ago, JustaMonster said:

Ok maybe this will make it easier There are things called Tones and Semitones (these can also be called whole and half steps ) and basicially a Tone/whole step is when you skip 1 note. For example a tone would be C to D (skipping c#) and a semitone/half step would just be C to C#. So to put the pattern in another way its T-T-S-T-T-T-S

Here it is for the C major scale. In my opinion the easiest way to remember is just remember that from 3-4 you only go up a half step and then from 7 back to the octave you only go up a half step as well.

And yeah basically a songs key is based on the "root note" which is for the most part just the note that you start on in the scale. So the root note for the key of C is C, which is the note that you would start the scale on. 

And when you change keys (from C to D for example) you basically just move up the pattern and start it on D and use the D scale.

It sunk in. I think I got it.. you've actually been explaining things a simpler, so thank u.

And ok! That makes a lot of sense. So that kind of pattern..... I'm guessing the minor scale goes the same way, but starts with different notes?

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Just now, Vodka said:

It sunk in. I think I got it.. you've actually been explaining things a simpler, so thank u.

And ok! That makes a lot of sense. So that kind of pattern..... I'm guessing the minor scale goes the same way, but starts with different notes?

Hm yeah the minor scale  is basically the major scale except you start on the 6th note  So every major key has something called a relative minor key and for C major the relative minor key is Am (because thats the 6th note of the C major scale) So all you do is play the pattern for C major except you start on A if that makes any sense.

So technically the pattern would be T S T T S T T if you started on A and went up an octave to another A but if you notice you are still playing the keys in the C major scale. This kind of confused me for a long time and im still not sure whether to think about it as its own seperate thing or think of it as based on the C major scale  

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I make music myself! I don’t have SoundCloud, but you can check my Spotify. My name is Tryxdar. I make instrumental music, EDM, with GarageBand. I hope you like my content :). I’ll check your SoundCloud...

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On 9/17/2017 at 3:13 PM, NIGHTCRAWLER said:

Hey Monsters!!

Some of you may have already heard about me on GGD. I'm a composer-writer-singer and I already shared some of my songs here. I noticed that people dont really care about music or hearing new stuff when it aint about someone famous and that actually makes me sad. I hope you're not listening to songs only bc it's popular or whatever. 

I was wandering if there were other monsters that are musicians (singer or composer) and I'd like you to give me your Soundcloud so I can see what you do and we can share about our passion.

Here's mine

 

I hope I'll find some artists to share with 'em and discuss about our work! 

you have very mature, understated production sensibilities which I love. your voice is not conventional but I like it at times you could also consider working with a female vocalist I think. particularly liked I'm the one and Ashes and your cure remix is brilliant!

On 9/17/2017 at 3:41 PM, Quindy Warhol said:

Hello, there!
I'm a singer-songwriter too. Right now I am not posting the material I'm writing, but covers of The Fame & 2009 related material, a tribute to Gaga (thes two are just demos & not well recorded but oh well ). I'm glad to hear about other musicians here!

 

you seem to really get into the music and it comes across. there is something hypnotic about reloaded. 

On 9/17/2017 at 4:15 PM, YaaaasGaga said:

This is my band's soundcloud page (I'm the singer). We've not done much this year because my guitarist has been in America but he's back soon. Before he left we were working with a grammy nominated songwriter so we'll probably explore that a bit more. But this is a such a great thread for discovering everyone else's art as well, I can't wait to listen!

Also, don't listen to I Had No Idea - I really hate that song. 

I like the sound of your voice and the band's 80's revival sound is fresh

On 9/17/2017 at 4:55 PM, Abramovic said:

I will listen to your music, really excited since I have a song called Nightcrawler  

here are two of my songs  

 

 

 

 

this sounds very professional. very smooth production maybe a little homogenous at times but people work hard to be able to get that kind of sound. good job.

I'm sure there are more but I got this far and decided I have to upload some of my stuff. will post links in a bit.