The struggle of Gps learning music and sheetmusic

[Gps]

Things must have got more complicated....when I started playing you could manage almost all pop songs with 3 chords I, IV and V7. And that will get through most of the blues too .

Steve

Blues, that's something I like.

This is one of may favorite blues tracks, maybe one day I try to cover this, but it sounds for now incredible complicated to me.
I am already having issues to count along. Is this another not 4/4 song ?
I am assuming this, because in general when I am having issue to count 1,2,3,4 its not 4/4
!,2,3 seems to fit though, so its 3/4 ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2KSJ0ld5Ls

And about his english, he is dutch like me.

[Gps]

Making progress, this is my most successful attempt at using chords.
https://soundcloud.com/user586365033/trancetest

I do not know if this will become a song, I just tried to use chords and make it sound better then the stuff I created before.
I think I succeeded in that.
Bassline however does not really seems to belong to the other instruments, but if there is one thing I like about creating music on the computer.
We can always change things.

[rghvdberg]

A song with ALL chords
I will survive by Gloria Gaynor in A minor
Am Dm G C F Bdim E7
I IV VII III VI II V7

Which by the way are approximately the same chords as still got the blues by Gary Moore

BTW count the distance between the root notes of the chords.
It's a perfect loop

[musikbear]

gps:
But lets try, I am guessing those number wont change.

YES!
You got it!
:)
Thats the beauty of the roman-numeral system:
They do not change at all, if a piece is played in another key!
You understand perfectly
Thumbs up!
:)

[Gps]

Hi Guys

Just need to vent some frustration about creating music.

I often just try something without thinking, and often end up within 15 minutes, with something I really like.
But then I need to make a song out of it, and the shit hits the fan.

Sometimes I would love to could tear my midicontroller and computer apart with my bare hands lol.

And as we prob all know, the harder you try (think, try to force it) the worse it gets.

[slipstick]

It's certainly not just you. That first good sounding idea often comes quickly (at the moment I've got about 25 of them stashed away, sometimes just bass lines or chord sequences). But if 1 in 20 of my "good ideas" eventually turns into a full "song" I would be happy....but in real life it's probably a lot less than that.

I find LMMS really useful though because if you put the part finished ideas away for a few days (or weeks or months) and then go back to the project what they need sometimes suddenly seems obvious .

Of course some of them don't sound nearly as good as I thought they did so they get thrown away .

I look at it this way....if it was easy anyone could do it .

Steve

[Gps]

I am very happy, how much my ears have improved. In my latest trance piece, I have the bassline follow the main melody, and although I was in scale it did not sound nice. I then changed the notes I did not like, from F to E, and I am still in shock, how much of a difference that made.
All of a sudden the two parts did sound right together.

Only a year ago, I doubt I would have noticed this.

[Gps]

I am having issues with chord inversions.

Mostly on the difference between CEG and GCE

Is the highest note in CEG ( the G) were the chord GCE starts ? So its kinda mirrored around the G key ?

[slipstick]

I wouldn't worry too much about inversions. The basic C major chord is CEG with the C as the lowest note. But so long as you play the same 3 note names, a C, an E and a G it will always be a C major chord.

The traditional descriptions are for First inversion you move the C above the E and G to get EGC, Second inversion you move the E up above the C to get GCE.

But even if you play the original C and E with a G below them it will still be C major. Those 3 note names anywhere on the keyboard played together make a C major chord (as a guitarist I used that idea all the time...it doesn't matter where you play the 3 notes, you still end up with the same chord).

Steve

[musikbear]

But so long as you play the same 3 note names, a C, an E and a G it will always be a C major chord.

Exactly!
Listen and go with the best! Dont think a minute on the theoretical stuff 1. 2. blah
If it sounds good, it is good.