Peter Gabriel is known as the lead vocalist and flutist in a rock band called Genesis. He stayed in the band from 1967-1975. After leaving Genesis, he began to have a successful solo career after launching “Solsbury Hill” as his first single. He was also mainly known for his intelligence and the different depth in his lyrics. I really like his music because it’s really catchy and how some songs show different emotions compared to others. Furthermore, I really admire how hard he worked because even though he won many awards, he is still known today.
“Sledgehammer” is also reportedly the most played video in MTV history.
Babe rainbow is a folk/psychedelic funk band from Australia which formed in early 2014, a couple years later during 2017 they officially released ‘The Babe Rainbow’ EP which gave them a solid following. fast forward a year and they release “Double Rainbow” which was a more folk album but still a groove. This album really showed the world who they are and where they can take their music.
2019 was a very good year for The Babe Rainbow, with the release of ‘Today’ came real groovy chords and unique melodies. This mushroom induced album was a masterpiece in my eyes..
(fun fact)
Babe rainbow was reportedly about to wrap up a movie with an original soundtrack but it was never released
If your a guitar player you’ve most likely messed around with distortion. This video doesn’t really “teach” you anything but its cool to know how far we have come and too see the history of rock and roll.
I was trying to find videos on how distortion works but nobody actually explained how it works.
I dont know much about the life of arthur. There is only one interview with him that i could find, but i feel like i know him just by connecting through his music.
Arthur is for sure up there in my favourite artist. He is definitely my favorite underground musician. He has a large collection of unreleased and fully finished songs. He is not only a solo artist but plays in a band called joy again. And they are also one of my favorite bands.
Arthur’s style of music can psychedelic and have electronic feel, to simple acoustic songs. In my opinion arthur is a genius and more people need to recognize that.
Okay writing music is annoying sometimes and hard. I started out writing music not really understanding much about how to make songs interesting and wrote the exact same type of song for a while. Eventually it hit me that a little bit of music theory never hurt anyone. This video I think has a few key things that can be helpful when not knowing starting in theory!
And if you don’t feel like theory theory and want to just learn something a bit more digestible, learn a tiny bit of keyboard! If you can figure out middle C on a piano those little piano rolls in your DAWs will seem a little easier!
When making music on a laptop for the first time everything feels super foreign and I think videos like this one will help it make a little bit more familiar!
Operator Please was formed in 2005 for a battle in the bands contest in Gold Coast, Queensland. After winning, the five members independently released the ep On the Prowl. Their second Ep Cement Cement thanks to lots of radio play, word of mouth and probably just good luck got the group to a table sponsored showcase in New York. This showcase got the group signed to Virgin/EMI records.
Honestly, the music is great. The two label backed projects the put out are solid projects. The song that ‘blew them up’ Just a Song About Ping Pong feels like a can of red bull. It’s silly and the myspace link in the song description just is the most 2000s thing ever. The band was referred to as ‘..The next big thing” by Perez Hilton. The band is baby faced and the song Is catchy. Who knew a song that was just about ping pong could actually be popular at any point in time?
Their second label backed record I think is one of my favourite pop-y electronic records. I think if it came out now it would be so much more popular. But alas, they were ahead of their time. The album Gloves by Operator Please came out in 2010. To not that much critical acclaim. The more monotone blunt lyrics weren’t appreciated as much as the in your face pop punk tunes about table tennis. Some praised the album for it’s more mature writing compared to their first record. I even saw a review mentioning that this band could be “one of the biggest pop groups”. Say what you will about the record but it’s a easy to digest 80s inspired pop record that shows an air of maturity and I think if better managed by their label the group would have been much bigger and much more mainstream.
The band isn’t around anymore :/ The never officially broke up but they haven’t done anything since 2011. I love talking about them purely because of the almost super big band that could have been that started off like a bad high school movie. I first heard Just a Song About Ping Pong on twitter and fell down a wikipedia hole. There is something about the vocals and the fact they were a mainstream group with a violinist was something super new to me when I first discovered them.I could have probably picked a music suggestion that was a little bit more obscure and a less in depth review but…… I genuinely have been thinking about how I wish this band put out more records forever and have no one to talk about it with.
Another interesting bit is it was one of the first groups I got into that had demos available to compare to released songs! I love listening to both versions of Back and Forth:
If you went ahead and read all of this, go listen to my current favourite songs by this band 🙂
Reverb (or reverberation) is a commonly used audio effect in all kind of music and instruments. It creates an effect of the sound being played in a room, with the sound waves bouncing off the sides, creating an echo. Learning how to use this effect will give your instruments or sounds more feel and making it sound more natural.
This is what the reverb effect looks like in Ableton live 10:
It might look quite daunting at first but the best thing to do, is to just go ahead and use it…
Input Processing– All sounds come through this section, it filters anything you don’t want
Predelay – The amount of time needed for the first soundwave to hit a surface
Shape– Blends the early reflections with the tail at the diffusion network
Early Reflections– Affects the first reflections
Size – The size of the area the sound waves will bounce off.
Stereo – How much reverb is coming in on both sides.
Diffusion Network – X-Y control that creates the ‘reverberant tail’, the part of the echo that follows after the early reflections
Reflect– Changes the amplification (volume) of the ‘Early Reflection’.
Diffuse – Changes the amplification of the ‘Diffusion Network’.
Decay Time – The amount of time needed for the reflection to die down to -60dB, (to fade out).
Density and Scale – Determine how many reflections will occur
Quality– Quality of the reverb, however high quality will affect your CPU
Dry/Wet – Adjusts the difference between the dry signal (input) and wet signal (processed), in short, more dry = more instrument, more wet = more reverb.
Chorus – An X-Y control that adjusts the frequency and depth of the chorus.
How to apply reverb to an instrument or sound:
Navigate towards the left side of the screen, click on ‘Audio Effects’, and scroll down until you find reverb. Now, you can drag reverb down into the bottom for the default settings, or you can click on the triangle next to it for a ‘Preset’, which is has already been adjusted to a certain room.
Now, there are many different type of reverbs, plate, hall, cathedral to name a few… You can actually find some of these in Ableton’s ‘Audio Effects’ section.
