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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Apr 18, 2024 ^^
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I am a 62 year old retired from stage musician (injury made it necessary). I have had college level theory, most of the less common points (chromatic mediants, parallel chords, what a quartal was, etc) had been forgotten years ago until I locked myself in my studio after leaving live performing. When I started composing again I realized that I needed to get back into it, and have spent the last 2-3 years really digging in again (biggest thanks to Rick Beato and Guy Michelmore!). Now that the introduction is out of the way, I was in a band with a singer/songwriter (3 of us wrote for the band, and it was AWESOME! We all had a little different flavor but it worked as a whole) that could not stand chords that didn't resolve! He would go absolutely mental! I had written an intro for a song we were working on that went from an Asus-D add 2, just by changing the root. He just couldn't abide it!! It was almost comical. Anyway, since we are no longer on stage together I am free to leave chords "hanging" as I see fit. I think that is one of the things that drew me to ambient music. Subtle changes that never really fully resolve if you don't want.
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Ambient was also reintroduced in the late 80s and 90s.
Alex Patterson and Jimmy Cauty formed the Orb and DJ ed in the VIP are of Paul Okenfold’s Spectrum/The Trip nights at Heaven. Arguably they kicked off the Ambient reintroduction to pop culture.
Cue Mixmaster Morris, Peter Kuhlmann/Namlook, R+S records, Fat Cat record shop in nine dials London, The Black Dog Productions, Warp’s Artificial Intelligence series etc.
All these and many more all helped bring about a resurgence in ‘ambient’ music bringing it to a new young audience. 👍🏼
I still make ambient music but haven’t done any for a couple of years as I’ve been slowly kitting out my studio…
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Thank you Ian. Simply brilliant insight into creative use of chords to spice up your creations without going too deep into music theory which, as a matter of fact, regrettably put me off studying further when I was 7 years old. So now when I am almost 70
and all the other important bits in life have quietened down I can immerse myself in beauty of music ambience.
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Hi Ian. Having virtually no music theory, I just tend to mash notes together until I come up with something I like the sound of.
This is one of the most useful video tutorials I have seen. If you could do something that explains scales in a similar way it would be fantastic. I don't know if that is possible, but I live in hope 😊
Cheers ✌️
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