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Gps » Fri Oct 28, 2016 7:44 pm
slipstick wrote:I remember seeing a film about the making of Good Vibrations and they kept talking about the theremin then showing an instrument that obviously wasn't a theremin...so I looked it up.
BTW another bit of trivia...did you know that long before he developed his famous modular synthesizers, Bob Moog used to build and sell genuine theremins ?
Still, we're a bit off topic so I guess we'd better let Gps get back to his struggles with music. I think he's very nearly beaten it
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Steve
I think I am getting there. ( and don't worry about going off topic in my topics, I don't mind at all, and like it )
The part that makes me most happy is that I finally have some feel for how a melody will look in lmms.
Not giving up even when I got so frustrated, I got very aggressive ideas toward my computer keyboard.
The biggest frustration for me was, that I could tap along any song before I had used LMMS.
My sense of rhythm, was already good enough, even to a point, that when a piece of sheet music was confusing me, the solution for me was simple.
Don't look at the sheet music, take you're midi controller and find the right spot ( timing wise ) for that note just by ear.
( the Cure - A forest)
When I saw the result in LMMS, I instantly understood what that piece of sheet music was trying to tell me.
I knew there was music in me. I was ones was listening to a blues player, and could not sit still.
Our eyes met, and there was this link, of people who like (love) music.
Very happy I did not listen to the people who blamed lmms for my music not sounding professional, and wanted me to switch to a different program.
I was right, that switching to another program would not have solved anything.
LMMS was never the problem, the problem for me was to get a connection between what I hear and what I see on a computer screen.
( And train my ears and learn some music theory )
There is also a little negative effect, because of my progress.
Some of the magic of the music from Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis has died.
I am also starting to get a better feel for which part the guy plays, and which parts the synthesizers are playing.
Listening to music for as long as I can remember, but in a lot of the songs, I have heard many times already, I notice new things, or minor variations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT5zCHn0tsg
Only a year back I did not notice the minor changes, Vangelis makes in this melody. And that's why my cover attempt sounded so boring.
Of course I did notice my version did not sound the same, but not having a clue why got me upset.
