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Thank you! I'm glad you liked the cover and the video. 😊

@@Josh-HC thank you 🙏

@@juanmolinar3479 thanks :) I used piano vfx to create the blocks from the midi I had

@@lindsaysantos933 thanks ❤

I'm not at my PC right now, will check later

@@sickflow_makes got it👍🏻

@@Mathalao1 شكراً

thank you :) I'm playing Stardew Valley since 8 years ago lol. so I'm pretty sure I'm going to cover a couple more and discover new OSTs too haha

@@HaroldDCruz thank you 🙏 I'm happy you enjoyed it :)

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thank you! what do you think I should focus on in terms of realism? I am definitely new to making music in general lol

@@sickflow_makes Well you definitely know what you're doing to an extent. Using dynamics, and velocity. First thing I noticed that you could do is adding spaces in the woodwind instruments. Cause the players have to be able to breath. But I feel like you already know that cause your brass sounds really good. Overall you have good technique though, how are you learning, or from who are you learning from?

@@imbailing thanks for the detailed feedback really appreciate it! I started learning on TH-cam and one course on Udemy that I ended up putting it on hold but I actually have a playlist of all the videos on TH-cam from different folks that really helped me th-cam.com/play/PLhkg0G2RoeIha2Hz02FYU84WsJDWCpdd-.html&si=xPV-zoVo_pqMG4oa

@@sickflow_makes Oh nice. Alex Moukala was probably the most useful for me when it came to learning instruments. But also I'm probably biased because it was always right up my alley with what I wanted my music to sound like.

Thank you :)

Thanks 🙂

Thanks 🙏

Thanks 😊🙏

Thanks for the comment! I also checked your song from the Reddit thread, I came in with knowing nothing but tabs and doing covers, I'm sure with your skill level you'll be able to write way better than what I have here haha

Thanks for the encouragement :)

Thanks Akram 😊

Thanks for the feedback :)

Although I still have no idea what that means, I will start researching about this. Thanks for the tip!

@@sickflow_makes There are a dozen ways to make this happen, but one of the easiest to start with is automating the volume of the track from the pattern Window and copy-paste the same automation for the sound. I know It may sound weird nor am I the best person to explain, but I Hope It gives you an idea of what It consist of. Gl!

Glad to hear that :)

This is some of the most important and well spoken pieces of advice I've ever heard. I spent my years trying to reinvent the wheel and burning out as a consequence. I wish I'd stuck to the humble road and done this. When I did do this, I made decent music. When I tried to invent when I hadn't learned the foundation, I developed hyper evolved but conceptually broken music with little structure. I could create insane layers and loops but couldn't tie anything together. Now I can improvise rather uniquely but struggle with the actual structure. I needed to hear this. Thank you "Stand on the shoulders of giants"

Dude this isn’t high school, theres no minimum word count💀 Also this advice isn’t really necessary, if you have a musical ear you’ll hear once your music starts reaching professional levels. I’d never replicate someone else’s music, it’s a waste of time, you learn way more from figuring out your own way of producing

This is wrong on so many levels lmao. DAW is not an instrument. It's a recording tool. That's like saying a tape recorder is an instrument. I've been using DAWs for over a decade and not once did I ever recreate something written by others. The skills required to recreate a song in a DAW are super different than the skills required to compose your own music in a DAW, and there's minimal overlap. You have no idea what this person's intentions/motives are, so this is really a giant block of pointless text.

@@KevinTheCardigan It's not a recording tool if you don't record anything. It can be used to record, you're right, but most people use it to "perform" a piece of music - often something they imagine in their head. But if you have a creative block, or have no idea what notes to choose, then as a beginner you've got two problems: you don't know how to use the DAW properly, AND you don't know how to compose/invent music. By removing the creative aspect and focusing on translating what you hear into a project in the DAW, you then build skills to translate what you /imagine/ into a project in the DAW. If you can't recreate specific sounds that you can reference and inspect, then how easy is it to make the sounds that are in your head? You're welcome to ignore my advice, as is anyone. It's provided free, and so you can have a refund if you find it doesn't meet your expectations. If, as you say, you've never attempted to recreate someone else's music, then I can only assume everything you do is 100% original and nothing you make sounds anything like what people are familiar with. Good luck with that. Everyone's different, so maybe you just like clicking random shit until it sounds OK, and calling it a day. That's fine. But having the skill of being able to recreate things you hear is pretty much the same skill as being able to create things in your mind.

@@drtitus A tape recorder is also not a recording tool if you don't record anything. I stopped reading after your unfound assumption of what 'most' people do with a DAW. Unless you conducted a survey, you're just pulling information and assumptions out of your ass to hock and glue your weird purposeless narrative. You're also under the assumption that people have creative blocks. I create when I have the urge. Nothing less and nothing more. You're way over complicating things for no reason. There are plenty of music producers who are not audio engineers. You are mistaking audio engineering as a necessity to working with a DAW. It's completely ignorable and many professional music producers don't touch engineering or sound synthesis in the slightest.

Thank you! that's encouraging :D and will keep at it!

@@sickflow_makes No worries mate. And always ask for feedback! 💪

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yeah, that's not convincing, but at least now I can research about ableton vs fl studio. so thanks :)

Thanks! that's the plan :D

Thanks, will do!

thank you for the encouragement! yeah, mixing is something I haven't touched yet, and will learn more about it at some point

What is going on in this comment section man, your comment has 227 words

Thanks for the tips! I did notice sometimes that I would be humming the base part instead of the melody, so I definitely see why it's taking away from the melody! and other mentioned also recreating other's songs to help build some understanding one what works well.

there's no need for this comment man.. I did ask for feedback, and appreciate people taking some of their time to put this much effort in their feedback comments

Yeah chord progression is a bit too low for being piano, can hardly make it out

Thank you! I tried it an octave higher, and can hear it much better