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gigihforlife
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How to build groove, so people can enjoy listening me singing?
Steenamaroo
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You're going to need to be much more specific.
Musical genre, equipment available, software available, experience, skills, abilities etc.
Musical genre, equipment available, software available, experience, skills, abilities etc.
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Raymeous
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Yeah Sheenamaroo nailed it. Need a bit more info.
I will tell you that I recently had a related conversation with a friend of mine. She's a singer/keyboardist who's into the more ambient stuff. She asked me to critique her music so I did. Although the general idea was there, she didn't have the "core" of the tune solidified. As a listener it was hard to figure out where I was.
What I mean is that she had a lot of cool pads going back and forth, along with some piano bits and a nylon string guitar (all keyboards), but the problem was that she had not provided something to latch on to as a listener. It was like a body without the skeleton to hold it together. She had missed the foundation, and just started adding the walls and a roof, with nothing to support it.
So I'm going to use building a house as a metephor. You have to start with solid foundation like a rhythmic pattern, whether drum kit, electronic bleep, or ethnic percussion. Then raise the walls up with a solid bassline or chord progression to turn it into a house as opposed to just another dirt lot. Once you've got the foundation and the framework done you can start adding the fun stuff, like accents, melodies, and counter melodies. Vocals or the lead instrument in an instrumental would be the roofing, that completes the house.
Somewhat weird way to look at it I guess, but to be a song you have to have something for the listener to listen to in some form of cohesive order. What is the listener going to walk away with? Is there something in the song that will have them humming long after the song has stopped playing?
Long winded but I hope it helps.
I will tell you that I recently had a related conversation with a friend of mine. She's a singer/keyboardist who's into the more ambient stuff. She asked me to critique her music so I did. Although the general idea was there, she didn't have the "core" of the tune solidified. As a listener it was hard to figure out where I was.
What I mean is that she had a lot of cool pads going back and forth, along with some piano bits and a nylon string guitar (all keyboards), but the problem was that she had not provided something to latch on to as a listener. It was like a body without the skeleton to hold it together. She had missed the foundation, and just started adding the walls and a roof, with nothing to support it.
So I'm going to use building a house as a metephor. You have to start with solid foundation like a rhythmic pattern, whether drum kit, electronic bleep, or ethnic percussion. Then raise the walls up with a solid bassline or chord progression to turn it into a house as opposed to just another dirt lot. Once you've got the foundation and the framework done you can start adding the fun stuff, like accents, melodies, and counter melodies. Vocals or the lead instrument in an instrumental would be the roofing, that completes the house.
Somewhat weird way to look at it I guess, but to be a song you have to have something for the listener to listen to in some form of cohesive order. What is the listener going to walk away with? Is there something in the song that will have them humming long after the song has stopped playing?
Long winded but I hope it helps.