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[brandystarbrite]

She also said you cant have a 5 min piano loop.
I think you can, and to name an example why her feedback confuses me:
Its not a piano but the way I hear this its 6.52 a lot of same repeating ? (and I love it)
Frankie Knuckles - Your Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOLE1YE_oFQ

Now this music track has a repeating piano sound.
PS: Something tells me his fingers got tired after all of that playing.

She also said you cant have a 5 min piano loop.

Well that Your Love music track, qualifies as one that does have a super repeating piano melody.

Dont worry about my feelings, I am stubborn and self confident enough, to be happy with a track, even if I am the only person in the world who likes it.

Lol!
Sometimes you have to be that way, when making music.
Some people have their owns tastes and preferences in melodies and instruments used etc.

[Gps]

Now this music track has a repeating piano sound.
PS: Something tells me his fingers got tired after all of that playing.

LOL I was somewhat wondering the same. If this is played by hand and not looped he will have a sore hand after the recording

Well that Your Love music track, qualifies as one that does have a super repeating piano melody.

Good to hear I am not the only one not really understanding her feedback.

Lol!
Sometimes you have to be that way, when making music.
Some people have their owns tastes and preferences in melodies and instruments used etc.

That's the big problem I am having with feedback in general, although part of my problem might be asking to many people what they think.
You will, if you ask many people what they think, get contradicting answers.
And their taste for music influence what they gonna say.

I sometimes see people posting tracks, which to me proof they are better then me, with lmms / music, but that does not mean I like the track.
That's a completely different story.

Thanks for your replies, they are helping me big time.

[brandystarbrite]

LOL I was somewhat wondering the same. If this is played by hand and not looped he will have a sore hand after the recording

Ha! Ha! Glad I'm not the only one.

That's the big problem I am having with feedback in general, although part of my problem might be asking to many people what they think.
You will, if you ask many people what they think, get contradicting answers.
And their taste for music influence what they gonna say.

Yep.
Try showing this track, to some one/individuals, who enjoy(s) or (has the generic follow the crowd, generic music mentality.psychology.)
In his/her mind, if even your House/electro etc. music track, is better, or waaaay better than the generic music people listen too (or sometimes pretend to like), and if it's not a Holly wood singer/cheesy generic music, it isn't even worth listening too.
And in some bizarre cases,....if even your track sounds way better, he/she might try to downplay your music track, because it sometimes psychologically frightens them.
That type of mentality is so strange. Even for me, it doesn't make any sense.

I sometimes see people posting tracks, which to me proof they are better then me, with lmms / music, but that does not mean I like the track.
That's a completely different story.

Yep. Everyone has their own tastes in music. If even one Lmms user is better than others.

Oh, also, I think your friend who plays the keyboard, probably is one of those people who can't stand repetitive melodies/sounds.
In alot of cases, repetitive melodies actually sound way worse and annoying, in alot of the generic sounding music, especially if that music track is weirdly gloomy sounding.

Thanks for your replies, they are helping me big time.

Glad to help.

PS: Oh, did you check out the You and I Medina, deadmau 5 remix link I sent you on the bottom of Page 5.
You could try that high rising effect on your piano melody, to give variation to it.

[Gps]

I think have checked out that link, but to be sure, I am gonna check it out right now.

And one of my motivations to try ans sell my music, is not because I think I am such a great talented artist.
But mostly by what shit most people do pay for.
And that an awe-full sounding popcorn version on soundcloud got likes.
I at first was not happy, but did not have a clue why it did sound not nice, muscibear was one of the people helping me, finding out why it sounded so awe-full, one reason was that I had out of tune notes. Still it got likes, to my big surprise.

I have send that online friend the knuckles track, and I am waiting for her to reply.
She might hate that track too, or maybe she can explain what she conceives as a difference between my repetitive track and that one.

I think I quoted this before, but I blame pac man (the game) for my taste for repetitive music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Br ... c-Man_joke

Computer games don't effect kids, If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music

[brandystarbrite]

Here it is again.
Reposted by Brandy:
dead mau 5 remix of this Medina You and I song track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQOguDV0YKg

Notice, he has a repeating, piano sound melody throughout the music track.
And that he slighty breaks that cool sounding repeating melody, when he has the higher rising version of the piano melody.

1) It is possible that he automated the Piano synth sound at 1:42 secs to 2:00 secs.

2) Or he has another synth piano sound, that already has a high rising sound to it.

I have no idea what he did, but it sounded cool, for a repeating melody.

[Gps]

Thank you, and I had listen to that song before, but now I starting to understand why you suggested that track.

Also had a talk with my producer from australia.

He was able to explain some stuff to me, and now the feedback of that other online friend makes sense too.
What they told me, is about the lag of structure in my song.

The difference between the two, is that the one from Australia speaks daw.

Structure as in intro outro, and the in between part, drops and why brandystarbrite is talking about the drum fill, if that is the right word.

In other words, don't start the track with the main melody, and keep that going through out the entire song.

Finally some of the feedback I got in this topic, is falling into place too

This happens a lot, People tell me stuff, which I don't forget, nor ignore it, but then some weeks later it suddenly starts to make sense.

Progress

I can have my track start with just perscussion / drums, and then just a few notes of the main melody to tease the listener, about what is coming.

Maybe I can get the end better too. The fade out is not bad, but I cant say I am 100% happy about it.

A fade out feels a bit like cheating.

And lets have a look at some drum fill.

[brandystarbrite]

I at first was not happy, but did not have a clue why it did sound not nice, muscibear was one of the people helping me, finding out why it sounded so awe-full, one reason was that I had out of tune notes.

I'm glad that muskbear and others helped.
I would have been glad to help, ( or did I?) but my laptop went bye bye, 2 years ago.
And I recently started using this PC, to make music.

Were you able to finish and master the cool popcornyness of popcorn?
If so. Very good.

[Gps]

I have finished, but musicbear was not 100% happy yet. He then added a extra note, in a certain part, which was not in any example I saw.
Still it makes totally sense to me why he did this. He also suggested to change the key. I am still praying for motivation to pick it up one more time.

There is something strange about that popcorn song although is sounds so simple. There is however if you look at all examples, one note in the main melody that does not fit any scale in lmms. The big question of course, was this done on purpose or a mistake?

The most weird part though is that the hot butter version has a string part, very soft, that does not sound nice to me.
Many people have confirmed though, that the hot butter version is in tune.

Added a intro to the our house music track.
So now the only thing left, is some kind of drumfill, as you suggested.

[brandystarbrite]

Okay.
Message received.
I was going to ask more questions about the popcorn song, but I don't want to distract you from your House music work.

My good ol' advice is to you, is to continue on with your House track, and forget the Popcorn song for now.

[Gps]

Latest version with intro:

https://soundcloud.com/user586365033/ourhousemusictest

Feedback from producer from Australia. ( I now truly hate him )

Delete part from 1.32 to 3.18 ( because of to much repetitiveness )
New different peak at 4:36
A lot more variation in the bassline.
New melody based on what I have already (add not replace) maybe a bit slower, and cutting out some of the instruments.
(like a lot of edm has, often with filters)

Need to think about this. although I agree on most.

It's a nice example why I love / hate his feedback.
I of course hate the part that I am still not done, but he is helping me to make it a better composition.
Most frustrating part for me, why do I need other people to point out the bloody obvious?