making beats
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making beats or blog..?
I took piano lessons as a child. I didn't retain much, but I remember a few right handed melodies. I have an M-Audio ES-88. It's a weighted, velocity sensitive, 88 key MIDI controller. It has sat dormant for the last 4 years as I don't have the skill required to utilize it as the instrument that it is. Plus, it's quite bulky.
Recently, I have been writing chord progressions trying once again to walk myself through music theory. As there are 6 tracks so far that I am happy with and receiving compliments from, I thought I might try to learn to play what I have written, as that has been a goal during this creative process.
Technically, if I learn my parts, I have a friend who is more than capable of playing the drums I've written.
Enter Synthesia - synthesiagame.com
$30 and a 5 second install later, I have software up on my screen that I can feed MIDI files to, then learn to play. Let's just say Amazing Grace is a stretch bit easier to perform than the many 5 note (and one 6 note) chords I have written.
Synthesia is probably the most engaging and rewarding trial by fire musical training tool that I have tried. I understand this is not so much helping me learn music theory, as much as it is a performance trainer. I don't care, coordination be damned, I would like to learn to play these songs live.
- you don't need to understand music or play an instrument.. machines do all the work. sure it helps, but in almost 25 years of producing, I still can't playautoflavour
- Pressing play on a midi file won’t have the same effect as playing a Rhodes piano live though... ya know?imbecile
- pressing play on a midi file? you know its not 1988 any more right?
LOLautoflavour - this is the MAKING beats thread, not Playing Rhodes thread lolautoflavour
- are you sure? i wrote this midi file in ableton... but you do make a good point sir, my bad. i talk more about the drums i don't want to play in my next postimbecile
- *i'llimbecile
- im just messing with you.. pay me no heed.. all music talk is good.. regardless of how you do itautoflavour
- i wasn't taking it seriously, no worries. mutual sarcasm is hard to detect onlineimbecile