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De-Wank-ifying Melodies

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Author: license on August 11 2006

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--> I stripped my setup WAY down - MC-50mkII, TX81Z, RY30, effects, controller - so that I can just kind of focus on music for a while and not DSP wankery. But now I'm discovering that I'm capable of a much different kind of wankery. What I mean is I'll listen back to a melody I'll made and I'll be like "man, I am just going up and down the major scale. How boring."

To redeem myself I listened to the bassline of "Carribean Nights" and figured out that it was basically 3 notes/chords and the first was expanded into an arpeggio that goes up to the 5th, minor 7th, 8th, ghosts the 9th, and then goes back down. If that doesn't make sense it's because I learned theory from conversations in bars with my classically trained friends. Anyway, the point of that was that expanding individual notes into chords or arpeggios seems effective, at least from listening to that one song.

Another thing I've been doing is varying the timing a bit and not quantizing. I'm not a good keyboardist at all but I guess my sloppy timing sounds better to my own ears than quantizing does, now that I'm a little older and wiser I guess. But that feels kinda like turd poliishing.

How about you? How do you repair or prevent melodic wankery?

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08/12/06 + zfigz

Alcohol never seems to help me...though it helps in picking up girls and talking to strangers.

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08/12/06 + deltasleep

Enoch Light and Esquivel had an absolutely prodigious talent for big band arrangements combined with a talent for record engineering. I have a good sized collection of LPs of Enoch Light, and Esquivel is widely available in mp3 or CD. I'll try and record some Enoch Light onto the computer today.

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08/12/06 + Tridact

Embrace the cheese. Give in to the dark side.

08/13/06 + lunatinker

someone said: "i was on my space i wasn't looking at porn or anything i hope my space is not an illegal program"

i just pretend i'm 3 sometimes and pound on rendom keys.
it teaks forr weeks to meak a song but thats ok. i
will never die so i'm not worried.
wow. what am i not doing. lol
totally had trouble with one word spelling and...i give up.

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08/15/06 + randal

you cannot dewankify a melody.you can try to alter it but this is basically futile because almost the entire character of that melody is a result of its inception. you cant go back to that moment a second time with the same melody. the only thing to do is start over with a clear head. necesarily, dewankifying a melody is wanking in itself.

08/15/06 + flies

LordByron said: "get drunk! i mean STINKING drunk... it won't really help but it's fun."

lol.

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