I appreciate the feedback. :D As you know, my tracks can get long, lol. This one, however, I didn't want to be too long, though it did end up being a little longer than I intended.
That's writing music for ya, though. Nothing hardly ever goes according to plan. Perfectly, at least.
Also, I wanted to add that my feedback was geared towards what I feel to be following the standard rules of a trance track. However, we all know that having strict rules can prevent progression and its not always good to follow 'the rules' at every turn. Its perfectly fine to make the content any duration as long as you (and hopefully others - but mainly you) enjoy it. Being a big dream theater nerd, I'm fine with longer tracks. 20 minutes? If it's good and engaging - hell yeah! :D
I see where you're coming from. I prefer longer tracks myself, however I'm of the opinion that there's a time a and for it, and not every application of it will work out. Though in my case that kind of thing just happens and people usually don't mind.
Well, my first question would be how to do best learn things? On your own, or from an instructor? When I first started learned how to play guitar I learned from watching YouTube videos and did that for a year. Then I got actual lessons from an instructor and hated it, mainly because the instructor I had was arrogant as fuck.
Meanwhile I'm entirely self taught (been playing for 9 years now though and apparently am pretty decent). I think I'll finally get around to recording something since I've got it to a point I can live with.
Guess I should post this extremely rough version because that's about as good as it will get for a while because tax season... threw this together in about 15 minutes so go easy on me :P
I guess a better word would be definition of the individual instruments. I am not musician and some things come down to personal taste. Shows more on the drums
So, what else have I been working on? I recently revived an old track for Dimensions Vol. 01 called "Ghost in the Machine", and it sounds nothing like it originally did, but that's okay:
Oooh! A music thread. Hope you don't mind if I do.
I'm thinking of picking up DAW music producing(Currently only compose) again. I've not had the time cracking open my FL Studio producer edition. I know the feel around, but I still need a few tips, IE, how to use effects, white noise generators, etc. Anyone know a series of tutorials I could use?
I've been on this forum a while and never ran across this thread. Glad to have found you all. I haven't played in a few years, or recorded or mixed, but I used to be into it really big for over 10 years. I am going to link my soundcloud here if you want to check it out. Everything on there was recorded, mixed, and mastered by myself with a few being only mixed/mastered by me. On the songs recorded by myself I perform various guitar parts, vocals, and possible a bass track somewhere. A good friend provided all the drums, a lot of the badass guitars and another good friend wailed some of the solos. Oh and yes... there is definitely a incomplete, all instrumental, rock opera - not complete as in we had a concept for about 11-12 parts/songs but only recorded about 5, and even those were still in a state of "flow. For 90% of my stuff I used a Presonus Studiolive 16.4.2 digital mixer, Presonus Studio One DAW, and for the most part the built in effects, VST's, plugins, etc. Guitars used were a Taylor 314ce, a Gibson Les Paul Gothic Edition (mid 90's), MXL 550 Condenser, Shure Beta67A, and ALL drums are Superior Drummer 2.0 being triggered in real time by an Alesis DM5 electric drum kit (well real time at the time of recording.)