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Title: I have composer's block Post by: tesselode on October 17, 2011, 06:58:02 PM Can I have ideas for songs to make? (I want ideas for electronic music, please.)
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Superb Joe on October 17, 2011, 07:00:42 PM make one with like, notes. and some of them go up, some of them go down, but all of them go forward. the inexorable march.
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Fission Mailed on October 17, 2011, 07:01:46 PM bleep bloop blip bloop bleep
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Inanimate on October 17, 2011, 07:06:51 PM I once suggested this a long time ago to a friend, but they never did it...
Make a song for one environment, using instruments from its opposite. For example, you know how winter / ice songs in games always have bells and chimes and stuff? You could make a LAVA LEVEL song, using those instruments. Likewise, desert to ocean - forest to machine - etc. I'll post better ideas later. Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: deathtotheweird on October 17, 2011, 07:10:07 PM make a song that would you would want to hear if you were floating through space.
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Superb Joe on October 17, 2011, 07:12:38 PM make a song about the absurdity of man's existential longing for communication, self-expression, and companionship contrasted with the absolutely singular, incommunicable nature of one's internal monologue
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: tesselode on October 17, 2011, 07:14:35 PM make a song about the absurdity of man's existential longing for communication, self-expression, and companionship contrasted with the absolutely singular, incommunicable nature of one's internal monologue Sounds like something you should submit to Songs to Wear Pants to.Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Hangedman on October 17, 2011, 07:15:08 PM Make a song that makes use of silence as much as sound.
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: The Monster King on October 17, 2011, 07:15:46 PM make a song about your unyielding servitude to the monster king
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Superb Joe on October 17, 2011, 07:16:05 PM make a song about the absurdity of man's existential longing for communication, self-expression, and companionship contrasted with the absolutely singular, incommunicable nature of one's internal monologue Sounds like something you should submit to Songs to Wear Pants to.Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: C.D Buckmaster on October 17, 2011, 07:17:51 PM 1) Create bass line
2) Add filler :durr: Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Superb Joe on October 17, 2011, 07:19:54 PM it's important that you harness the mercurial bearing of an artist
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: tesselode on October 17, 2011, 07:21:03 PM 1) Create bass line Oh you mean dubstep!2) Add filler :durr: Edit: I will make a forest song with electronic instruments if someone can draw me a picture of that forest. Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Superb Joe on October 17, 2011, 07:34:54 PM what IS heroism
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: DavidCaruso on October 17, 2011, 07:36:52 PM Do 2A03 square waves at 50% duty cycle and also make it have SOUUUULLLLL like Cave Story does, to have soul you use arpeggios in the background and put the melody on the triangle channel.
Quote from: Inanimate For examake ple, you know how winter / ice songs in games always have bells and chimes and stuff? You could make a LAVA LEVEL song, using those instruments. It was unused but I think this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikj4k9XQQig) works. Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: MattG on October 17, 2011, 07:39:19 PM 1.ride on c# down low 93bpm quarter note ride. slow groove style. 2. put some synth effects and a big beat over that - no melody. 3. drop the beat after 8 bars and go for a hook sound fx. 4. bring back the beat and let it all ride till the loop is done. 5. deposit 40g into my paypal acct for virtual song invoice(j/k on #5!) :handmoneyR: :handanykey:
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: DavidCaruso on October 17, 2011, 07:40:26 PM Make a spaghetti western theme using electronic synths only.
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Inanimate on October 17, 2011, 07:40:52 PM Quote from: Inanimate For examake ple How did I typo that word so horribly? :facepalm: Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Fifth on October 17, 2011, 07:49:52 PM Write the song that would accompany a corgi paddling across a sea of apple cider.
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: :) on October 17, 2011, 08:30:48 PM pee on a piano and then play it.
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Ashkin on October 17, 2011, 09:05:19 PM Make a song that would fit a old-style western movie-inspired Shadow of the Collosus.
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Dragonmaw on October 17, 2011, 09:11:34 PM Do 2A03 square waves at 50% duty cycle and also make it have SOUUUULLLLL like Cave Story does, to have soul you use arpeggios in the background and put the melody on the triangle channel. Quote from: Inanimate For examake ple, you know how winter / ice songs in games always have bells and chimes and stuff? You could make a LAVA LEVEL song, using those instruments. It was unused but I think this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikj4k9XQQig) works. Why do hori shooters have to have such FUCKING STELLAR osts Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Alec S. on October 17, 2011, 09:58:02 PM Write electronic pieces using classical structures like rondo or fugue.
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: C.A. Silbereisen on October 17, 2011, 10:33:33 PM 1. open whatever sequencer software you use
2. input a couple random notes 3. tweak until it sounds good 4. repeat Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: saibot216 on October 17, 2011, 10:39:49 PM What usually inspires me in my music is playing a lot of video games and usually one just slips into your subconscious and you sort of make a soundtrack for it, if you will. Same could go for movies, I suppose. Otherwise just messing with synth patches gives me ideas.
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: mcc on October 18, 2011, 12:14:46 AM Feed samples of violins into distortion pedal filters
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: eyeliner on October 18, 2011, 01:53:45 AM Make a song consisting on body sounds. You know, farts, burps, sneezes, yawns, moaning...
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: baconman on October 18, 2011, 06:14:39 AM Percussion-rich, upbeat remix of Heart of the Forest? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFIOuQjgMYY&feature=related)
Or maybe Happy Field/Jables is Home? (http://soundcloud.com/frantic-panda-studios/jables-is-home) The Spider-Man theme from Marvel Super Heroes is kind of underappreciated as well. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tonKOGARBIc) You could also work on some kind of epic ending boss theme(s) as well. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39uwEKnYb9I) Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: HyperDuckChris on October 18, 2011, 06:48:26 AM 1. open whatever sequencer software you use 2. input a couple random notes 3. tweak until it sounds good 4. repeat I do this every damn day. It works. Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: moi on October 18, 2011, 07:03:26 AM Make a spaghetti western theme using electronic synths only. "Chom chomchom chom chom chom chom" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwP585m5Y1g) --- "la lala lala lala lala lala laaaaa" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BXy1W7R13g) Spaggheti westerns are awesome, fuck that shit, tonight I'm watching "once upon a time in the west" "You brought two too many!" Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Tumetsu on October 18, 2011, 09:13:29 AM make a song that would you would want to hear if you were floating through space. It already exists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Q3X5Gw5I4I suggest you to make some chiptune music, there isnät enough of them in indie games :durr: But other than that take a theme and build a song around it. I suggest meaning of life, existential suffering or searching of one's identity :durr: Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: C.A. Silbereisen on October 18, 2011, 11:35:02 AM Spaggheti westerns are awesome True.You know what's a good spaghetti western? The Great Silence. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CLH4SEBlww) Y'all should watch it. Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: C.D Buckmaster on October 18, 2011, 02:23:55 PM Make a song with some kind of mathematical basis, like the fibonacci sequence or a particular equation.
Like a song based on y = tan(x), which ear-rapes you on a regular basis. :lol: Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: KM on October 18, 2011, 02:27:44 PM I once suggested this a long time ago to a friend, but they never did it... Make a song for one environment, using instruments from its opposite. For example, you know how winter / ice songs in games always have bells and chimes and stuff? You could make a LAVA LEVEL song, using those instruments. Likewise, desert to ocean - forest to machine - etc. I'll post better ideas later. Man, I really dig that idea. :D I should try that sometime. Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: Glyph on October 18, 2011, 05:26:21 PM Whatever you do, make sure the song has a good name. I hate songs named "Forest 1" or somesuch. I'd much rather have song names like "Into the Sunset Once More" or "So Dark You Can't See the Trees". In fact, I sometimes just come up with names and make songs about them. Doesn't work out sometimes, though.
Title: Re: I have composer's block Post by: wademcgillis on October 18, 2011, 05:46:22 PM Spaggheti westerns are awesome True.You know what's a good spaghetti western? The Great Silence. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CLH4SEBlww) Y'all should watch it. Whatever you do, make sure the song has a good name. I hate songs named "Forest 1" or somesuch. Them fighting words (boy?). |