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Top Comments of this video!! :3
One name comes up in my mind immediately: Caterina Barbieri. She is imho the queen of sequencing. Her use of seemingly repetitive patterns is just brilliant. Also how she uses delay and reverb and filters. She starts with a minimalistic, quite dry sequence. But soon the sequences expands into space and time, sometimes it feels like infinity, really impressive. Of course, what she does is not really new, Terry Riley and Steve Reich come to mind. Everybody who loves ambient music should check her out. So, enough fanboy talk now 😆
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genuinely some of the best edited music content on the web currently. your humour really shines through each video. great work
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Thank you so much for this series! I definitely find myself caught in the "oh this is a nice 4 bar loop" situation all the time, looking for ways to break out of it!
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Great series. Love how it all ties together from one to the next. love the niche you are carving out that no one else is doing.
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After 10 years of sound & music as a hobby, I just learnt that the 3rd dictates if it's a major or minor. I mean I knew how to play a major and a minor, but I couldn't say it in musical terms. Cheers for that JNJ. This will help me in my "minimal theory musical journey". :face-red-smiling-live:
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I really enjoy your stuff. Please continue the sequence of stuff.
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My best layering of sequences seem to be having a 4/16 locked kick drum and literally everything Else at an odd step count like 5,7,9,15. Model cycles excels at this and taught me the value of both polyrhythm and polymeter
This is easier for me to accomplish with drums but I'm starting to figure out how to use it in synth sequences as well
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Some sequencers - I've seen this in software, but I'm sure there are hardware versions of it - allow you to randomize particular steps within a sequence and it's usually in combination with what key you set it. In this way, you can make certain steps consistent - usually the 1st or 5th scale degree - whilst the other ones can be random. In fact, any sequencer that can allow for randomization of different parameters - velocity, direction, etc. - will help. Then there's usually employing of various effects to give dynamic character to a sequence over a period of time (flanger, for an example, and that was a go-to for the Berlin School types).
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Man, this video came in clutch. As a composer who relies heavily on sequences to build out my tracks, monotony is a constant risk. This was truly helpful. Thank you.
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I almost never use sequences because of the problems they bring, but your video inspired me to experiment!
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Klaus Schulze used a sequence in his track "crystal lake" that might be ... at a first glimpse ... boring. As for me this sequence was truly fascinating (and my personal "door opener" to synthesisers and electronic music). But nevertheless I enjoy your excellent lessons to bring musical theory to those of us who were pure hobbyists 👍.
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Man when you said too many harmonics can lock you into a key I know exactly what you mean. You have to be absolutely sure that you want to do and know how to exit that circle to expand on the musical ideas in the track.
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One of the most important things you said in this video:
"...a lot of this is trial and error.". Adsolutely agree. I do appreciat your videos. Thanks for taking the time to do it.
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Regarding not pinning yourself down with harmony. I’ve found thinking in terms intervals instead of whole chords helps. After all harmony is just a combinations of intervals.
Another thing that is interesting the tetra chord concept. Tetra chords can be combined to create different scales, and you can swap between the two. Another similar concept is pentatonic pairs, where you play two different pentatonic scales depending on the register.
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@1:59. Wow. Very nice.
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I liked the "go over the bar" point (and I like Prokofiev but wasn't aware he used that technique). I had tried that before, but very often, the very nature of the "song mode" of some hardware sequencers (1010 blackbox, Squarp Hapax) make this next to impossible. Going back to the Polyend Seq now as it's the most intuitive Sequencer I ever had (and sold), it can do 8 patterns all at different lengths and speeds, so this should help 😅
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5:21 Those chords sound gorgeous.
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Excellent info. Great sequences too
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another great video
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@JamesonNathanJones
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If you'd like to learn more about some of the composition concepts that have helped me the most over the years, I made this free guide for you: bit.ly/FREEcompositionguide
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