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    songwriting formulas!

    hey jake that sounds cool! that's intresting playing with the sound and effecting it to create a groove. i also at times come up with a beat that is going to carry me to rest of the song....a beat can be a drum groove or a bass groove.
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    i feel your pain badgas...... it is human nature. but i think that we're good now and that we can start anew....huh? clean slate...... you know i like to start writing from the hook and then build everything around that. in my songs the hook is the bread and butter. i like strong melodious...
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    forget it jake.... yes we surely can disagree and get along by all means.
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    an hobby huh? that makes it worse. it's not the fact that you disagree...but that you do it with a chip on your shoulders and bitterness...... i didn't post this to agree or disagree about semantics. if you don't believe in formulas or you don't like formulas or to you they don't even...
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    watyf......... you are right! i never meant to post this for argument's sake. i just wanted to share ideas, instead others have chosen to make it a battle on the wording(semantics).and i am guilty for falling into it too!
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    you know jake........ at first i thought that you were doing it on purpose .....then i looked at your profile and i saw what your occupation is....and then all of a sudden it all made sense.
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    dude all i said was that I and only ME interpret and put it into a formula. and for instance they used to have a set chord progression and use it throughout the song like in roxanne....all the bridges and chorus and verse have all the same chords....it's the melody that changes. as far as...
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    jake...you said: "I have songs I guarrantee you would think you could understand....they are about one thing on the surface and the true meaning is only for me. Just hearing the chordal pattern will not get you any further into understanding them." i have never said i would....... you also...
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    Jake..... see i agree with what you just wrote but i disagree when you say that i assume...... look at it this way....if you look at a painting you will have your own way of interpretating it even though the artist him/herself might have meant something different or used a different way of...
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    songwriting formulas!

    "....Transplanting one into your own songs doesn't seem productive to me." i couldn't agree more in fact i never mention copying from anyone, but by the same token i feel that is important to learn from the best......and given the fact that in my opinion they have been some of the best...
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    nice try......... i ain't going for it this time though. really it ain't worth the effort. even if i felt that you were being rude to begin with even if it is tempting i admit. let's just say that we ALL assumed what the other meant. now......as far as responding to what made sense in you...
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    Sonic you really understood what i meant!!!!!! thank you! i usually start with a beat or a chorus melody.... and then ionce i have the chord progression of the chorus i break it down and i try to write a melody for the verse. at this point i feel i need to take the song up a notch before the...
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    We are friendly people, and will respond friendly if treated friendly. :) hey Moskus....i appreciate you clarifing things for me.... but i am sure you can understand how what he wrote can be easily interpreted as a condescending comment, that's all especially from someone like me who doesn't...
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    jake .....man............ why is it that uptight people like you ALWAYS seem to misunderstand things like these..... whether we are aware of it or not we still use a formula to write....whether we want to be commercial or not, and besides if musicians and songwriters didn't wanna be commercial...
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    what about the police huh? they had various formulas...... gotta love the police!!!!
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    anyone ever uses logic?

    hey folks! i am back...... finally installed sonar! i did load a midi file on floppy i made with the triton, it took me little to adjust the triton and to allocate the right channels and so on but now i can play midi. i will go back and explore more like editing midi ect. with the help of the...
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    anyone ever uses logic?

    okay..... i understand where you guys are coming from. the only reason why i wrote a thread in this forum is cuz i couldn't get to start an Emagic one. the reasons why i haven't looked at the manuals is because i have so much stuff that lots of it i still haven't unwrapped and therefore not...
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    anyone ever uses logic?

    i really think that it is none of your business however.....here it is just please don't assume....... that makes an asshole out of you and me. i never said i condone who pirates software but since it seems that i have compromised myself, here is the explanation...... i get them at cost and on...
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    songwriting formulas!

    YOU'RE REALLY TRYING ME BRO'......HUH?
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