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General advice for a song

Posted: October 3rd, 2018, 1:49 pm
by plainbanc
Hi guys, first time poster here :)

So I started fiddling around with LMMS a few months ago and used it as kind of a sandbox/scratchpad. I had no previous experience in music making and I learned quite a bit from this forum.
I've never felt comfortable enough to post a song, but I thought for general tips you guys/gals could have. As an example, if my mixing is off, if you hear something weird etc.
I wanted to make the melodies myself, if you hear something wrong about them tonally etc. let me know :)

Maybe these kinds of posts aren't allowed, fell free to delete it if this is the case.

Maybe a few infos about this snippet of a song:
Piano: PATMAN with the 001_Acoustic_Brite_Piano tone.
Flute: PATMAN with the 075_Pan_Flute tone.
Drumsamples: musicradar-techno-drum-fx-samples, 513TubeDrumHits_Wav_SP

I hope this post does not seem like me begging for advice.

Song: https://soundcloud.com/plainbanc/just-f ... um/s-r0vKJ

Have a nice day everyone!

Re: General advice for a song

Posted: October 4th, 2018, 1:54 am
by D.Ipsum
Welcome!

The link is dead ...

(don't hesitate to publish your tracks in the Music Projects section of the forum, we all started somewhere ;) )

Re: General advice for a song

Posted: October 4th, 2018, 11:19 am
by plainbanc
D.Ipsum wrote: ↑
October 4th, 2018, 1:54 am
The link is dead ...
Whoops, I've updated the link :)

Re: General advice for a song

Posted: October 4th, 2018, 2:14 pm
by musikbear
plainbanc wrote: ↑
October 3rd, 2018, 1:49 pm
Hi guys, first time poster here :)
Hi, Welcome to the Forum plainbanc !
Here are all important links:
http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4740
-A few rules and useful forum instructions
Maybe these kinds of posts aren't allowed, fell free to delete it if this is the case.
They are fine, but belongs in 'Music Projects' :)

Re: General advice for a song

Posted: October 4th, 2018, 10:31 pm
by D.Ipsum
Great track, from start to finish, but it lacks a development and an end ... I hope you will continue on it.

I feel that you already have some experience with music.

Re: General advice for a song

Posted: October 5th, 2018, 4:16 am
by brandystarbrite
plainbanc wrote: ↑
October 3rd, 2018, 1:49 pm
Song: https://soundcloud.com/plainbanc/just-f ... um/s-r0vKJ

Have a nice day everyone!
This music is really good. And I like the ambient house style of this. 8-)
I would say, that this track is 90% complete. All it needs, is a tad more, to make it sound
a bit more complete. Especially during the ending part. :)


plainbanc wrote: ↑
October 3rd, 2018, 1:49 pm
Maybe a few infos about this snippet of a song:
Piano: PATMAN with the 001_Acoustic_Brite_Piano tone.
Flute: PATMAN with the 075_Pan_Flute tone.
Drumsamples: musicradar-techno-drum-fx-samples, 513TubeDrumHits_Wav_SP
Wow! You used PATMAN? That is cool! :D

Re: General advice for a song

Posted: October 5th, 2018, 1:37 pm
by plainbanc
D.Ipsum wrote: ↑
October 4th, 2018, 10:31 pm
I feel that you already have some experience with music.
Actually not no :) But I'll take this as a compliment.
I always wanted to make music because I thought about melodies etc. a lot. So I decided to give LMMS a try because I was on Linux and did not want to pay a horrendous sum of money for a DAW. When I started a few months ago I didn't even know what Major/Minor were. Well, I still don't really know. I just really like playing around with sounds.

But thanks! The hardest part for me is keeping a song interesting. I can come up with a melody, drums etc., but actually making a whole song out of it is really hard...

Re: General advice for a song

Posted: October 5th, 2018, 1:45 pm
by plainbanc
brandystarbrite wrote: ↑
October 5th, 2018, 4:16 am
plainbanc wrote: ↑
October 3rd, 2018, 1:49 pm
Song: https://soundcloud.com/plainbanc/just-f ... um/s-r0vKJ

Have a nice day everyone!
This music is really good. And I like the ambient house style of this. 8-)
I would say, that this track is 90% complete. All it needs, is a tad more, to make it sound
a bit more complete. Especially during the ending part. :)


plainbanc wrote: ↑
October 3rd, 2018, 1:49 pm
Maybe a few infos about this snippet of a song:
Piano: PATMAN with the 001_Acoustic_Brite_Piano tone.
Flute: PATMAN with the 075_Pan_Flute tone.
Drumsamples: musicradar-techno-drum-fx-samples, 513TubeDrumHits_Wav_SP
Wow! You used PATMAN? That is cool! :D
Thanks! I saw a lot of your posts when I visited this forum, so that's kinda cool to get a compliment from you ;)
Yes, I struggle with the ending, but I left it unfinished just to post it here because I wanted to hear some opinions.

Is PATMAN not used a lot? :)

Re: General advice for a song

Posted: October 5th, 2018, 8:24 pm
by D.Ipsum
plainbanc wrote: ↑
October 5th, 2018, 1:37 pm
D.Ipsum wrote: ↑
October 4th, 2018, 10:31 pm
I feel that you already have some experience with music.
Actually not no :) But I'll take this as a compliment.
Wow, so it's even better! (it was a compliment :) )

Re: General advice for a song

Posted: October 8th, 2018, 3:50 am
by brandystarbrite
plainbanc wrote: ↑
October 5th, 2018, 1:45 pm
brandystarbrite wrote: ↑
October 5th, 2018, 4:16 am
plainbanc wrote: ↑
October 3rd, 2018, 1:49 pm
Song: https://soundcloud.com/plainbanc/just-f ... um/s-r0vKJ

Have a nice day everyone!
This music is really good. And I like the ambient house style of this. 8-)
I would say, that this track is 90% complete. All it needs, is a tad more, to make it sound
a bit more complete. Especially during the ending part. :)


plainbanc wrote: ↑
October 3rd, 2018, 1:49 pm
Maybe a few infos about this snippet of a song:
Piano: PATMAN with the 001_Acoustic_Brite_Piano tone.
Flute: PATMAN with the 075_Pan_Flute tone.
Drumsamples: musicradar-techno-drum-fx-samples, 513TubeDrumHits_Wav_SP
Wow! You used PATMAN? That is cool! :D
Thanks! I saw a lot of your posts when I visited this forum, so that's kinda cool to get a compliment from you ;)
Yes, I struggle with the ending, but I left it unfinished just to post it here because I wanted to hear some opinions.

Is PATMAN not used a lot? :)
Not everyone uses it. But it's a cool plugin though. :D