Sunday, December 2, 2007
Music Theory: Noooo, please!
It's almost a funny sight to see people's faces when you talk to them about music theory. Some says it's just a gibberish subject brought out to show that songwriting is technical and requires lessons. Others find it as hard as mathematics. Why? It is as good and made up of the alphabets we use without any foreign symbols (well, except the notations). And won't you love when you create something delightful that others find equally (or more) delightful? Your music will sound so professional and so mature by just sprinkling a little music theory. And best of all, it can be used in any software you use. So before I go to the music making process, I want to delve into fun of music theory along with you. Stay tuned!
Welcome
Hey everyone, I am Mubasser (heck, you can just look to the right) and am the creator of this very blog called SoloMusicians. We all want to make good music that people would crave for. And I was no different. I downloaded a free trial version of Fruity Loops software (version 3.0). By the way, it is now known as FLStudio and the current version at the time of writing this is 7.0. I was so confused when it started (sorry Image-Line guys). But it wasn't the software's fault. I was just plain new. A newbie.
I didn't quite understand the logic of putting those small blocks (called patterns or steps) on the interface. But as a human being (no, we ARE intelligent) I clicked on one of the boxes beside a label called Kick. The blocks lit up. A good start, I thought. Then I clicked on the "play" button and guess what? I was hearing the wonderfull boom-boom of a kick drum. I got excited! But I still couldn't make the basic drum loop (you know, the 4/4 thing?). Then it got to me. I counted the little blocks and found them to be exactly 16. Hmmm...now if I divide them by 4, I would get 4 beats out of it. So I did it and pressed the play button. VOILA! It worked.
Just below the Kick drum was another drum tool called the Hat. You know the drum part that makes the sound like "tis-tis-"? It is called hat. The kick drum continued in the background and I clicked on the hat patterns. Slowly, I made a simple "basic" drum loop.
The begining of my music making begins here.
I didn't quite understand the logic of putting those small blocks (called patterns or steps) on the interface. But as a human being (no, we ARE intelligent) I clicked on one of the boxes beside a label called Kick. The blocks lit up. A good start, I thought. Then I clicked on the "play" button and guess what? I was hearing the wonderfull boom-boom of a kick drum. I got excited! But I still couldn't make the basic drum loop (you know, the 4/4 thing?). Then it got to me. I counted the little blocks and found them to be exactly 16. Hmmm...now if I divide them by 4, I would get 4 beats out of it. So I did it and pressed the play button. VOILA! It worked.
Just below the Kick drum was another drum tool called the Hat. You know the drum part that makes the sound like "tis-tis-"? It is called hat. The kick drum continued in the background and I clicked on the hat patterns. Slowly, I made a simple "basic" drum loop.
The begining of my music making begins here.
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