Music Composition
quick summary on music composition and how to write songs
The Ultimate EDM MIXING & MASTERING Guide! | Easy & Straight Mixing Tutorial
This video was fun to watch and very good tutorial. There are lots of funny jokes in this video, so this video is a fun to learn video. the video talks about mixing, mastering and all the other tips to make your music better.
Ted X Music Composing isn’t that hard
He talks about how you compose by starting with melody or background music first. Later he talks about chord progression and how a lot of popular backgrounds are with the same chord progression.
Art of Composing
This is a short blog post on songwriting. It goes over effective and sustainable habits for writers that help you to be successful long-term. The two main ones that he branches off on are:
Create something new everyday
Learn something new everyday
Composition for noobs/ beginner guide
This video is helpful for beginners, easy to understand, the video is about 3 elements of composition and rules of composition. He teaches composition by drawing and he does not use any complicated words ,so its very polite tutorial for beginners.
Ólafur Arnalds – re:member
In re:member, Arnalds uses short call and response phrases in the composition. Call and response phrases mimic human interaction, and thus such composition styles appear frequently in music all over the world.
– Nick Andreev
Nils Frahm – A Place
Sevish – Midnight Cascade
In Midnight Cascade, Sevish employs just intonation in tuning their instruments.
A just intonation tuning system is any tuning system that attempts to tune musical intervals as whole-number ratios. Such whole number ratios appear naturally in almost all sounds as the harmonic series, and when sounded, no beating is heard. That being said, attempting to create rigid tuning systems using the rules of the harmonic series doesn’t work as one would first expect, as music commonly requires more notes than just one harmonic series can provide. As such, just intonation tuning systems frequently sound just as, if not more, out of tune than standard twelve-tone equal temperament. However, if one is using a scale-free instrument like a trombone, voice, or any instrument of the violin family, they would naturally be inclined to play in what is called adaptive just intonation, which is basically what all just intonation tuning systems attempt to emulate.
– Nick Andreev
The Internet – Roll (Burbank Funk)
I really like the layered background vocals in this song (around 1:30) and the funky bass paired with the off beat egg shakers makes this song very catchy. The main vocals are balanced out really well and with all the instrumental happening in the background, at first I thought the song was a little bit crowded but after listening to it a couple times I noticed how all the instrumental and percussion compliment each other really well.