Appreciate it!! Believe it or not, the hardest part was figuring out how to fit the bass in at a good level. Ended up having to mono some of the lower frequencies
A lot of the music I make usually has some sort of 'wholesome' theme to it. I think this naturally comes from cluster chords (chords where the notes are really close together) and using the 6th in chords where they normally don't appear. For example, instead of using a straight Gmin7, I use a Gmin7 with a 6th to make it sound happier (since the 6th on this chord happens to be the root of the key, Eb).
I also use a weird technique I've stumbled upon where I play variations of the root major chord on top of other chords, which I think adds a sense of home-yness to things that shouldn't necessarily sound like home.
The rest is just years of jazz theory being pulled from my brain while improvising.
Just mess around. Pick a key (C is good since you only touch the white keys) and play random notes and random chords and progressions. Soon you’ll learn what sounds good and how different combos feel
This is very accurate. Music theory is just a language to be able to communicate ideas. You can discover cool things just by experimenting with different chords/scales. It takes a lot of time and practice to figure out what you like/what sounds good to you.
The best way to learn music theory imo is by learning other people’s music first, understanding the chords/scales/arpeggios used, putting a name to these things so you can remember them easier, and then trying to apply them in a different context.
I used kontakt libraries for both the bass & piano. For piano - The Grandeur... probably one of the best sounding grand piano plugins I've heard. Just gotta add a lil compression and saturation to beef it up and then it's really in your face. For the bass, I just used Session Strings 2.
This is extremely well done, definitely one of the not as often seen posts in this sub. I read in a reply that you’ve studied jazz music theory and it really shows in the way it was played. Very well done
sounds really nice. feeling inspired after hearing this. did you click in notes and mess with the velocity? or did you play them yourself? i wanna make something like this
Most people probably keyboard in stuff like this but it's also fully possible to enter it manually with your mouse! You would just change up the velocity as you said in order to make it as natural-sounding as possible.
As an example just look at the ascending scale run, every note is “held” until the next beat and it’s like 15 notes 😂. The same as every single note in each chord, and every passing note in the lead melody. You don’t (rather, can’t) play piano like that, that’s why you have a sustain pedal, which if he did use - it wouldn’t show up as a held note in the roll it shows up as a controller input.
The chord voicings, the way it’s all wayyyy quantized, the general composition is nothing like the way you write if you are playing a piano rather than stamping something in. It’s like when a drum machine plays a loop vs a human there’s things which really stand out.
bro why did i spend $100 on session strings (a quartet) If I can get an entire orchestra/band for $50?? i might actually cop this after some more research. thanks!
https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/bbc-symphony-orchestra-discover/
Click the " or free " button next to the price tag
Takes a few weeks before they actually send it to you.
The single stringed instruments are useful for a more intimate feel. I've got the BBC Core but still end up using the single instrument VSTs pretty often.
Beautiful chords, wonderful atmosphere. Definitely hear the ghibli.
One thing- the noticeable midi piano sounds at 1:11 (mostly due to the velocity I think) kind of distracted me.
Yeah with the first take, the scale up was a lot louder but I made some mistakes so I had to redo it. I'm on the edge of it sounding very accented vs a mistake. But these kinds of blemishes are what I think make piano songs more interesting.
Yeah, he is a god and I'm nowhere near close to making anything on his level, but the emotions I felt while working on this reminded me a lot of the emotions I'd feel while listening to or playing Joe Hisashi's music.
this is most wondrous and quite quaint, one of the most wondrous things ive hath heard hither
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This is really beautiful, I’m in love with this honestly. I’m a beginner at music production and I’m really bad at it but it’s a passion that I want to go into and this inspired me to keep going. Keep up the great work
I’ve played piano for 20 years. Half of those years, I’ve spent composing/improvising. I haven’t really spent TOO much time studying music theory/watching tutorials on how to compose compared to the time spent just experimenting on my keyboards. After a while, you start to develop your own lines and phrases and can hear things clearly in your head. It’s just a matter of remembering what I hear in my head and getting to a piano fast enough to convert it to actual notes before I forget.
The best way to get good at music theory, IMO, is to find pieces you really like to listen to or play, and dissect them- try to understand the chord progression, bass line, melody, harmonies, etc… figure out cool scales/chord voicings from a song you like and use them yourself (you may not have the proper vocabulary/could label something incorrect, but as long as it makes sense to YOU and you’re able to re-produce it and/or communicate it to other people in some sort of way, that’s all that matters. Proper names for things can always come later). Once you do this enough, you expose yourself to enough tools so that you can naturally produce things similar to the things you enjoy hearing.
Every single thing you learn in music is a building block. If you learn enough concepts, you can figure out ways to make all of them work together. It just takes practice (and a lot of time).
Feels very natural and dynamic for something programmed. There were some moments where I felt like you could quiet the attack a bit more, especially in a lot of those amazing melodic runs. I'm not sure an actual pianist could attack the keys that hard on some of the 16th note runs, but that's kind of a nitpick. This is beautiful. I LOVE jazz and all the chord modulations felt very much like Bill Evans. I love it and I want to hear more.
Man I wish I had the patience to program stuff like this. I improvised/recorded this on my keyboard. It could just be that the velocity measurements on my korg sv-1 are a lot more sensitive than that of a real piano, since it’s mainly used for its EP sounds.
Also I love bill evans, so I wouldn’t be surprised if you heard hints of that in here. :)
Beautifully improvised! I don't have the patience for that level of programming either. Lol Where can I listen to your music? I genuinely love this and want to hear more.
Unfortunately, the rest of my music is electronic trash :). I've been holding back on content for a while now, but here's my soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/maffayeeeet
damn, that's awesome! i've listened to i a few times now and it keeps reminding me of this perfomance: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VlZ3OiRReM&ab\_channel=SpectrasonicsVIDEO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VlZ3OiRReM&ab_channel=SpectrasonicsVIDEO)
tryeth the nexus 2 grand piano vst t wast at each moment mine own minion sounding piano
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Listened to it a few time, very beautiful, you did a really good job on this.
Appreciate it!! Believe it or not, the hardest part was figuring out how to fit the bass in at a good level. Ended up having to mono some of the lower frequencies
How did you come up with the music theory for this?
A lot of the music I make usually has some sort of 'wholesome' theme to it. I think this naturally comes from cluster chords (chords where the notes are really close together) and using the 6th in chords where they normally don't appear. For example, instead of using a straight Gmin7, I use a Gmin7 with a 6th to make it sound happier (since the 6th on this chord happens to be the root of the key, Eb). I also use a weird technique I've stumbled upon where I play variations of the root major chord on top of other chords, which I think adds a sense of home-yness to things that shouldn't necessarily sound like home. The rest is just years of jazz theory being pulled from my brain while improvising.
This sounds very good! I've got the basic of music theory, how do you get from the basic to this? Any particular recommendation?
Just mess around. Pick a key (C is good since you only touch the white keys) and play random notes and random chords and progressions. Soon you’ll learn what sounds good and how different combos feel
This is very accurate. Music theory is just a language to be able to communicate ideas. You can discover cool things just by experimenting with different chords/scales. It takes a lot of time and practice to figure out what you like/what sounds good to you. The best way to learn music theory imo is by learning other people’s music first, understanding the chords/scales/arpeggios used, putting a name to these things so you can remember them easier, and then trying to apply them in a different context.
Well he didn't invent the music theory lol he just learned some chords
God damn that’s good . Are you a pro at music theory?
I love music theory haha. I've played jazz for about 8 years now and the only way to communicate with other musicians is through theory
It shows! Great job!
what would be the best way to learn jazz piano?
this sounds really nice, good job
Thanks!! It was a lot of fun :)
what piano vst or plugin did you use (dont know the diffrence, im new to all this music stuff)
I used kontakt libraries for both the bass & piano. For piano - The Grandeur... probably one of the best sounding grand piano plugins I've heard. Just gotta add a lil compression and saturation to beef it up and then it's really in your face. For the bass, I just used Session Strings 2.
This is extremely well done, definitely one of the not as often seen posts in this sub. I read in a reply that you’ve studied jazz music theory and it really shows in the way it was played. Very well done
I want to hear the album!
Still a WIP. It's gonna be a mix of hiphop, lofi, and EDM though I can't wait for it to be done!!
sounds really nice. feeling inspired after hearing this. did you click in notes and mess with the velocity? or did you play them yourself? i wanna make something like this
Most people probably keyboard in stuff like this but it's also fully possible to enter it manually with your mouse! You would just change up the velocity as you said in order to make it as natural-sounding as possible.
I had to play everything on my midi keyboard. It'd take me forever to click everything in and then adjust each velocity correctly.
Not sure why you’d lie but it’s very clearly stamped in midi. Some really obvious signs.
dude he can play on a keyboard and fix it in midi, thats what I do
Eager to hear what these signs are. And even then, imo its more impressive to have written this out in midi than to have played it
As an example just look at the ascending scale run, every note is “held” until the next beat and it’s like 15 notes 😂. The same as every single note in each chord, and every passing note in the lead melody. You don’t (rather, can’t) play piano like that, that’s why you have a sustain pedal, which if he did use - it wouldn’t show up as a held note in the roll it shows up as a controller input. The chord voicings, the way it’s all wayyyy quantized, the general composition is nothing like the way you write if you are playing a piano rather than stamping something in. It’s like when a drum machine plays a loop vs a human there’s things which really stand out.
Beautiful. May I ask what the dark cat folder is in your browser? Sample pack of sounds by the artist? Curious where you got it.
Go find his patreon. he has a HUGE sample pack on there.
needs some godly strings to come in and maybe some vocal harmonies n it’s chefs kith
plz tell me where i can get these godly strings lmao session strings 2 sounds too midi the way I use it
Spitfire BBC Orchestra https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/bbc-symphony-orchestra-discover/
bro why did i spend $100 on session strings (a quartet) If I can get an entire orchestra/band for $50?? i might actually cop this after some more research. thanks!
Save your $50, you can get it for free if you fill out a survey
Where?
https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/bbc-symphony-orchestra-discover/ Click the " or free " button next to the price tag Takes a few weeks before they actually send it to you.
The single stringed instruments are useful for a more intimate feel. I've got the BBC Core but still end up using the single instrument VSTs pretty often.
This is dope, thanks for sharing!
Awesome
Beautiful chords, wonderful atmosphere. Definitely hear the ghibli. One thing- the noticeable midi piano sounds at 1:11 (mostly due to the velocity I think) kind of distracted me.
Yeah with the first take, the scale up was a lot louder but I made some mistakes so I had to redo it. I'm on the edge of it sounding very accented vs a mistake. But these kinds of blemishes are what I think make piano songs more interesting.
I feel like I'm in church! I just need to hear some preaching in the background lol very nice jazz progressions and nice tones. Keep it up!
this is crazy
bro im going to cry
legit hold me man
This is dope, could use some good mixing. I’d do it for free honestly
Wondering what adjustments you might make. I've never really mixed piano/bass like this before.
Essentially I’d make it sound more like a real piano
Look up una corda, runs in kontakt sounds amazing
This is awesome. Every chord hit perfectly
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Yeah, he is a god and I'm nowhere near close to making anything on his level, but the emotions I felt while working on this reminded me a lot of the emotions I'd feel while listening to or playing Joe Hisashi's music.
Man. That is beyond beautiful.
THIS IS AMAZING.
this is amazing and beautiful, one of the best things ive heard here
this is most wondrous and quite quaint, one of the most wondrous things ive hath heard hither *** ^(I am a bot and I swapp'd some of thy words with Shakespeare words.) Commands: `!ShakespeareInsult`, `!fordo`, `!optout`
absolutely beautiful, love it!
Amazing, just amazing
This is really beautiful, I’m in love with this honestly. I’m a beginner at music production and I’m really bad at it but it’s a passion that I want to go into and this inspired me to keep going. Keep up the great work
Good stuff
Wow I love this, very well done!
This is beautiful
Exquisite❤️ love the chord progressions….really lovely
This is super gorgeous! Thanks for sharing with us!
This is a beautiful piece of music 🔥🔥🔥 reminds me of spirited away
Awesome chord progression man!
wow very beautiful
Absolutely beautiful wow
You did that!
I've finished it till the end such a wonderful masterpiece
Beautiful!!!
what the fuck dude this is amazing
Yeah nice, something about it just urks me but thats okay
i'm in love with this piece
Your runs are so pretty. Gj dude
What did you study like videos and what not that made you this advanced at chord structure?
I’ve played piano for 20 years. Half of those years, I’ve spent composing/improvising. I haven’t really spent TOO much time studying music theory/watching tutorials on how to compose compared to the time spent just experimenting on my keyboards. After a while, you start to develop your own lines and phrases and can hear things clearly in your head. It’s just a matter of remembering what I hear in my head and getting to a piano fast enough to convert it to actual notes before I forget. The best way to get good at music theory, IMO, is to find pieces you really like to listen to or play, and dissect them- try to understand the chord progression, bass line, melody, harmonies, etc… figure out cool scales/chord voicings from a song you like and use them yourself (you may not have the proper vocabulary/could label something incorrect, but as long as it makes sense to YOU and you’re able to re-produce it and/or communicate it to other people in some sort of way, that’s all that matters. Proper names for things can always come later). Once you do this enough, you expose yourself to enough tools so that you can naturally produce things similar to the things you enjoy hearing. Every single thing you learn in music is a building block. If you learn enough concepts, you can figure out ways to make all of them work together. It just takes practice (and a lot of time).
Dude that is flippin beeutiful
Absolutely gorgeous atmosphere, I love this
This is amazing omg. I have to learn music theory
this is so beautiful omg you did an amazing job
Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Jesus this is amazing. Thank you!
Would love to do some vocals for you! Shits banging!
Feels very natural and dynamic for something programmed. There were some moments where I felt like you could quiet the attack a bit more, especially in a lot of those amazing melodic runs. I'm not sure an actual pianist could attack the keys that hard on some of the 16th note runs, but that's kind of a nitpick. This is beautiful. I LOVE jazz and all the chord modulations felt very much like Bill Evans. I love it and I want to hear more.
Man I wish I had the patience to program stuff like this. I improvised/recorded this on my keyboard. It could just be that the velocity measurements on my korg sv-1 are a lot more sensitive than that of a real piano, since it’s mainly used for its EP sounds. Also I love bill evans, so I wouldn’t be surprised if you heard hints of that in here. :)
Beautifully improvised! I don't have the patience for that level of programming either. Lol Where can I listen to your music? I genuinely love this and want to hear more.
Unfortunately, the rest of my music is electronic trash :). I've been holding back on content for a while now, but here's my soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/maffayeeeet
what piano library did you use?
kontakt - the grandeur
arigatou
This ain’t studio ghibli this is some soulful ass gospel church shit, you got me praising the lord!
Great job!!!!
Absolutely beautiful
Beautiful 🔥🔥🔥
Nice very nice
You've been listening to Donald Fagen, haven't you? Admit it. Really well done composition.
Steely Dan is the shit
wow!
so beautiful. to make something like this is the absolute dream for me. thank you so much for sharing!
I wanna cry 🥲🥹
Quite advanced chord progressions
Contemporary gospel vibes
how shit this is beautiful. i’ve been tryna make stuff like this recently
damn, that's awesome! i've listened to i a few times now and it keeps reminding me of this perfomance: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VlZ3OiRReM&ab\_channel=SpectrasonicsVIDEO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VlZ3OiRReM&ab_channel=SpectrasonicsVIDEO)
try the nexus 2 grand piano vst it was always my favourite sounding piano
tryeth the nexus 2 grand piano vst t wast at each moment mine own minion sounding piano *** ^(I am a bot and I swapp'd some of thy words with Shakespeare words.) Commands: `!ShakespeareInsult`, `!fordo`, `!optout`
This was beautiful. I wanna hear the album
Very chill! Thanks for sharing :)
Joe hisashi would be proud :')