Why am I so unpopular? Maybe because my music is too good for my age?

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If you study closely the second sentence of your question and don't see the possible problem, then I don't know what to tell you.
 
Its a bit... dont get me wrong... boring. Songs sounds the same though some ideas are good. Try to spice it up.
 
Coming from someone who only listens to this kind of stuff occasionally (It's by no means my "thing"), I'll be completely honest with you: this music is not "too good." At least kit for what the average person listens to these days. And if you want popularity that's who you need to target. The composition isn't bad and at times can be entertaining, but they all sound REALLY similar. Like too similar. Try changing up the beats a little in places and using different samples and whatnot. It gets repetitive and boring. I hear potential and I remember what it's like to be 14 and being so impressed with yourself that you couldn't believe no one else was. You'll listen to this in 5-10 years when you've gotten more experience and recording time under your belt and wonder how you ever thought this was amazing. This is meant to helpful and in no way discouraging. The raw materials are there for you to do something good. Keep at it and HAVE FUN. People will listen eventually if you enjoy what you do.
 
Well, like even 'bad puppies', they will use negative motives to garner *any attention* if that's all that seems to work for them. More of a large cat person anyway and repetitive, beat-ad-nausea, tends to wear on the anger part of my brain like an icepick!
So do double negative thread titles! **Play and make music, not the victim in this life!**
 
Greg, I always get a kick out of reading your replies. I checked out your new album and I think you should check out mine. I also love the Ramones and am a fan of NOFX, but my stuff is peppered with many other types of influences.

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Okay, I'll give my opinion after listening to as much of the cuts on the OP's "album" that I could take. Here's my opinion: it's not music. Music is not just a repetitive beat. Music is melody. Music is harmony. Music is rhythmic variation. All I heard was a lot of FX and synth patches, with and without a repetitive beat (depending on the cut) that went nowhere, said nothing and, frankly, were simply boring.

It's great that you want to write music. Read some books. Take some classes. Listen to something other than whatever it is you're listening to now. Learn what music is.

It's not your age. It's everything else.
 
PTravel said:
Here's my opinion: it's not music. Music is not just a repetitive beat. Music is melody. Music is harmony. Music is rhythmic variation.
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I disagree severely. The first forms of music were very beat oriented.
 
You know the guy is just hit harvesting don't you? He's not reading these. He's also not 14.:thumbs up:
 
PTravel said:
And the first forms of language were grunts. We've all evolved away from them.
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that doesn't make grunts NOT a language however. It's just not a sophisticated one.

Music can't be defined so narrowly. rap is music and it's definitely short on melody although there is plenty of rhythmic variation.

What you're actually sayin is that you don't like it ...... that doesn't make it non-music necessarily to anyone but you.
 
foxje79 said:
Greg, I always get a kick out of reading your replies. I checked out your new album and I think you should check out mine. I also love the Ramones and am a fan of NOFX, but my stuff is peppered with many other types of influences.

Therapeutic Chokehold
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I hate the Ramones and NOFX, so no thanks.
 
Lt. Bob said:
that doesn't make grunts NOT a language however. It's just not a sophisticated one.
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It's an extremely limited one.

Music can't be defined so narrowly. rap is music
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To the extent rap is music at all, it is an extremely limited one (and I'm only willing to concede that much because I don't want to get into an argument about rap).

and it's definitely short on melody although there is plenty of rhythmic variation.
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I'm not sure agree there is plenty of rhythmic variation.

What you're actually sayin is that you don't like it ...... that doesn't make it non-music necessarily to anyone but you.
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Yes, but . . . there's nothing about the definition of rap that makes it "not music," and, indeed, I've heard some that, though never destined to make my top 10 list, is considerably more than just a beat accompanying poorly-constructed near-rhymes (which describes 99% of the rap that I've heard). I do think, however, there comes a point where real musicians and real composers -- whether by virtue of formal study or self-taught -- can listen to a piece and say, "that's not music." I'm not from the "everything is art" school. There is good art, bad art and non-art. At a minimum, art requires conscious selection -- it can never be completely random. A selection of random events can be art, but it is the process of selection that makes it so.

Given the OP's cuts, it sounds to me like a kid playing with different synths and fx. There's nothing wrong with doing that, and experimentation can result in some amazing music, but not in this case. These tracks were nothing more than, "hey, listen to this cool effect!" And, sorry, but that's not music. That's what my wife (who knows nothing about music) might do if she sat down at one of my keyboards and started hitting notes and selecting patches at random. My musical tastes are broad and eclectic -- there's not a genre that doesn't have examples that I like -- rock, classical, opera, musical theater, blue grass, new age, hip hop, polka, trance -- it doesn't matter. It's not simply a matter of saying, "I don't like that kind of music."

Everybody starts somewhere, and there's nothing wrong with the OP starting where he's at. It's another thing altogether to start posting this stuff all over the internet like he's some sort of child prodigy. He's not. Maybe, someday, he'll be a great musician and composer. Right now, he's just an attention-seeking kid who would benefit from spending more time listening to music, learning how music works, and concentrating on becoming an artist and not a star.
 
PTravel said:
It's an extremely limited one.
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So it's music.

I'm not sure agree there is plenty of rhythmic variation.
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The complexity in the songs far surpasses those drum circles of the early homo sapiens. Sure, it's not nearly as complex as a composition like Vivaldi, Boccherini, or Albinoni. If that's your bar for music, then it's too high. If your bar is a riff as simple as Smoke on the Water accompanied with drums and bass, it's still to high a bar.
 
CrowsofFritz said:
So it's music.
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Is there some point in being hyperliteral?

The complexity in the songs far surpasses those drum circles of the early homo sapiens.
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First of all, what songs? The OPs? Rap? Second, how do you know? Here's an example of ritual drumming:

Kodo Drummers - Boston Symphony Hall - March 21, 2009 - YouTube

Sure, it's not nearly as complex as a composition like Vivaldi, Boccherini, or Albinoni. If that's your bar for music, then it's too high.
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When did I ever even hint that's the bar? Did you read this thread? Once again:

There is good art. There is bad art. There is non-art. One of the criterion is art is selection.

If your bar is a riff as simple as Smoke on the Water accompanied with drums and bass, it's still to high a bar.
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Interesting that your idea of "complexity" is Vivaldi as contrasted with Deep Purple. Instead of making up "bars," try reading what I wrote.
 
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