How To Write Music - In A Café
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- How to write music, on a laptop, using just Logic X, a micro keyboard and the factory presets. Sounds like a challenge! Join award-winning composer Guy Michelmore for a brand new Macbook Pro unboxing then he sees what he can come up with, in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee..and eat a lemon tart...all at the same time
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Officially the funniest, most entertaining and likable guy on the Internet. And on top very informative and educational as well. Thanks a bunch for all of that, please don't ever stop doing what you're doing!
I agree man! Awesome vids ❤🎵💡
@Darren Hirst yeah! By the way, could you see our newest content? I made it with my heart. Hope you like it. *it has English subs for sure. ❤🎮💡
This guy is my absolute favorite. Makes me laugh, entertains me, and teaches me things at the same time. Perfection.
Yes, totally agree!! The best music teacher and tester on internet!!!!!
"I've gotta get some reverb on that, or I'm gonna die."
I want this on a T-Shirt.
I wish I could bathe in this man’s energy forever. Such positive vibes.
“Today there was a guy in Carluccio’s staring at me whilst playing a small keyboard... It made me feel a little strange”.
ha! I did think about that
LOL
What a great idea, Guy and so brave too! I love the fact that everyone got on with what they were doing in the café and were not disturbed by a manic, musical genius creating a beautiful piece of music. Bravo!!
Honestly, I'm here for that lemon tart.
Ha! Ill tell Vincent
As someone that almost exclusively produces inside of coffee shops on a laptop, I enjoyed this video!
I really love your energy !! You're such a positive person thank you man !!
thank you
I know this is an old video but this is one of the many reasons why I love Guy so much. He creates so easily (or at least he makes it look that way :D) with such ease and joy it amazes me and inspires me to grow. Love taking the short course he has as well!
Would love to see the clever mixing and EQ version of this, and also would LOVE to see the MIDI files switched for BBC Symphony to compare the quality with the factory samples.
That was actually quite relaxing. Your enthusiasm and joy for your cafe composition is indeed something to aspire to. Thanks for sharing a bit of your day with us. It was fun!
"I'm having a serious attack of the lion king" brilliant
LOL! Wasn't thinking it until he said it, then it was all I could hear.
@@deltavistastudio124 Me too!
What a lovely gentleman! And how essentially English he is, embodying all we love about the culture of the sceptered isle. (Minus the football hooliganism, of course.) Cheers, dear fellow!
I was just happy to see you spending more time on Logic Guy, good job dude!!!
Really good I can just imagine this if the place had Christmas decorations and people were coming in from the cold very festive sounding
Perfect use of the sticker. I’ll probably give the ones I have to some students.
Just revisited this somewhat older post for inspiration. Great tip on using double reverb. I have a collection of open source orchestral libraries which I couldn’t make sound much better with reverb, but I never thought of using TWO reverbs. Now they sound much better. Thanks,
You are simply awesome. How generous to share your vast knowledge, professional experience and encourage us to jump in and have a go. You are so much fun, enormously inspiring and incredibly amazing. Thank you so much.
Thank you for your music and your videos. That was amazing and it did fit the place.
This man is sooo musical😊 Even his humor))) Thanks for content, congrats with buying the new Mac!
Completely pointless comment, but....I just ran across another video on your channel, really enjoyed it, your videos incredible! super inspiring. Then clicked on this video, recognised the area you are in immediately, blew my mind. I live down the road. Bloody hell. Its a shame that Attibassi isn't there anymore. Thanks for the inspiring and entertaining videos, thank you!
Ah the late great Attibassi - it was best when they were just the single unit. Lots its mojo a bit later. A shame - but Carluccios and Vincent is really great! Take your laptop and go hang out!
@@ThinkSpaceEducation I agree! I'm now inspired to take my laptop there for some writing haha
Apart from modelling synths from scratch with the logic Es2 and such, my fave is Alchemy for the ready-to-go musical soundscapes that fill things in just ‘so’ or when you’re in a hurry :) Not feeling the best over the past week. Thanks for the informative giggle, Guy and for the Webinar last week.
You don't have your own channel?
Lovely piece! And also this video put smiles my face, thank you :)
I love your passion and sense of adventure.
I hope you are enjoying your new friend immensely ❣
Although i don't make this type of music it is still such an inspiration to me. Thanks Guy for making these videos
Brilliant as usual !
Thanks !, Guy !
I just discovered you and I can't believe my luck! I am just starting out in composition and am looking for some software to start out on. Your enthusiasm is infectious! Thank you!
I used to dabble and especially explore ideas on the laptop (with a Launchpad and a notes mode, or just the qwerty) at a coffee shop where I’d just set aside the time to be stuck in that situation. I found the change of atmosphere to be inspiring. I had gone a good number of years without that routine and missed it quite a bit.
About a month ago I’ve begun getting back to this practice every couple weekends. Instead of a laptop, I can now do things on my iPhone (incredible the possibilities on portable devices today). It feels like being out at a place with a buddy, and having a conversation with them. You would never allow something to interfere with your ‘conversation’. At home it is too easy to imagine you’re stuck and take breaks haha.
Also, there is something to be said for the limitations. Not having all your home stuff at your disposal, to overwhelm the decision making process 👍
@@x1thesoul172 Couldnt agree more
Very nice piece of music. Sounds very much like authentic instruments to me.
“Run Forrest, run!” I really enjoyed the video. It’s fun and educational and positive but i couldn’t help thinking of that theme listening to this.
Yes!! The beginning with the leaf 🍃
The difference between a begginer composer and a professional one , is the workflow.
While the first spend hours and hours in a loop trying to make it sound better (loop syndrome) , the second already finished one track, because he composed fast...without think too much if it’s good or not, or the prejudice from others.
I include myself sometimes be trapped in 8 bars , ( layers, layers, and more layers of sounds) and don’t know how to continue after that. In Cubase folder I can have more than 1000 unfinished ideas!!
But then I try to use this technique as you use , and many professional composers, and try to compose something FAST and FINISHED.
Thanks to this, I could finish many tracks, and it really works!!
THANK YOU ALWAYS GUY!;)))
Nice to see your process and bringing in some coffee shop inspired feelings and ambience , the result evokes a little Christmas or autumn style with its pace and instrumentation very nice thanks for sharing
Brilliant and witty to boot! Great fun and wonderful instruction by example. As a DAW user initiate, pardon my jealousy of your command of the tools of your craft. Composing on a tiny keyboard is mind blowing.
Would be perfect as a theme song of some rpg farm style video game :-)
This is the best MacBook unboxing video!! LOL
Simply wonderful! Let's make this a regular thing, and "get together" for coffee, tarts, and music once a month. Just lovely.
Why not!
thank you
Oooh, it's even scoring what you play... I always love your compositions. This one is so pretty, sounds like the little birds feeding in my backyard. I was getting some really nice lyrics and vox lines to it. Originally I felt inclined toward a jazzy kind of vibe from the cafe scene, mellow alto sax, percussion, chord progressions... but love what turned out.
Too good. Thanks again. I enjoy learning the way you teach.
I love this man and his exuberance- and can see myself enrolling in a course! as with any different persons perspective i could hear many different melodies and rhythms in the café chatter and would have come up with something 12/8 melody wise based on peoples chatter- easy to say from a sofa! great stuff
instantly hooked. I've watched most videos. Thank you very mutch these videos are very helpful, inspirating, educating. Thanks.
@Guy Michelmore, a laptop and a small midi keyboard enter a bar.... :D (sorry I couldn't help it)...
You, Sir, are a GENIUS - you are a creator, an entertainer and a teacher, you make wonderful music, and you also seem to be having fun while at it...
Great fun, thoroughly enjoyed watching this Guy. I love the idea of sketching out songs in different places to see what you come up with. Pleased to see that the new laptop keyboard wasn't swimming in coffee by the end of it too.
I hadn't even thought of that! That would have been embarrassing
Your charisma is unique Guy. Thanks for share your knowledge always! ;))
I keep coming back to this video, this is so entertaining. Do you need to connect your mac to the power? Could I write music with my midi keyboard on the beach?
“Serious attack of the Lion King” This makes my day.
great piece! i loved it!!
Love it, love it Guy! do not stop doing these vids!
My thing for cafe sketching is either pencil and paper, or creating midi mockups with Dorico, it’s killer! I’ve noticed that having ambient sound and music actually helps me get inspiration lol! If you haven’t checked out that program, give it a shot, the free version just came out!
If you have a powerfull Macbook pro and an ssd nvme you can use CUBASE and most of the ALL Kontakt Library pretty much as well as you do in your studio
Such a RuneScape vibe 😄 lovely video!
That was just right to enjoy while I had my coffee this morning. Thank you.
One suggestion for such excursions and to expedite the process is to create a template with some basic instruments already in place.
I also don't know how far you are into Logic by now, but to switch between the samples from the same folder of EXS, instead of digging through the menus, you can click on the plus and minus buttons next to the sample name. And also, check the factory Studio Strings and Horns that were added maybe a year ago by now. They sound better and can be articulated.
He doesn't like templates.
Really fun to watch. You were definitely influenced by your surroundings. Which shows that getting out and about can bring in ideas you would never have sitting in your room/at home. Would like to hear this piece as is but with sounds from the BBC SO for example
Just loved it. I may have enjoyed watching this as much as you enjoyed your tart! 😀
What a catchy little tune Guy. It’s 12.30am here in the Barossa Valley in Australia and I’m about to head to bed. Cafe dreams coming I think...with a music score! 😋
Sleep well!
Uniquely presented... and very, very nice
Watching you It feels like everything is positive and happy in the world.
Somehow watching your videos is more soothing than listening to David Attenborough’s voice...
your work is amazing, thanks for sharing
Any minute Hans Zimmer is going to be told to make the bloody tea!
Loved this video Guy, reminds me of some of my times. I used to lug my MacBook Pro 💻 around with a mini keyboard 🎹 and headphones to public libraries and cafes but I found it too cumbersome, now I just take my iPad Pro with Cubasis and GarageBand and the Apple ear buds and i find it much easier and better for mobile/portable operation. I use the virtual screen keyboard and use chord pads to play the chords and then edit on screen.
The iPad Pro seems to be a more fun way to make music in my experience, and probably quicker too when mobile/portable.
With Apple Silicon coming out hopefully Logic can be available for iPad!
Just love what you do . . .inspiring for me.
The mood of melody for me was like a falling feather, and then... - Run Forrest, Run!!!)))
That lovely little melody would make a great 16 bar loop Guy :)
Your music is so emotional and beautiful :) thanks for good music~
I like your Video, they are so diffrent ... yesss 👍😉. May be I don't understand every single Word but the message is clear. Greetings from Germany
Min datter og jeg likte veldig godt å se denne episoden.
Ha, I was totally thinking about doing this but with with my 49 key!
Chuckled that you still do the conducting thing when you listen back, even in the coffee shop. That would draw some funny looks I guess.
You are freaking awesome in every single way
Check out the new studio strings that come with Logic now - sounds WAY better than the old EXS strings. Runs in their own plugin, so although it’s actually EXS underneath, you can’t load them from the EXS menu! The new studio horns are also half decent! Also has it’s own instrument plugin.
FANTASTIC
How in the world you come up with such a beautiful melody line??? Simple and tender... and just from the Logic library!!!
Now... put all that with the SPITFIRE BBC SYMPHONY and share us the result!!!
Well done from Paraguay!!!
thank you!
That’s an epic intro!
Thank you - credit to Hugh the video editor and VFX person!
Always positive and enjoyable to watch...
I like it Guy, Music for Coffee Shops! Limiting yourself in this way often forces you to be creative. 😁
you are so funny - I love to watch you in your vids. you could also go on stage of "New faces" LOL
A joy. Wish I had the balls to do that (and even a bit of the creative talent would help). Hugely entertaining.
Thank you. Strangely once I got writing I forgot about where I was!
The first marimba attempt was catching the atmosphere of the cafe best: smartphone ringtones. xD
Guy getting that good coffeeshop Foley
With the small Akai you are limited to compose in C Major, I think... (?) Would it be a good purchase? It might have maybe more "keys-range" if played with one hand only? Congratulations for the video, made my day :-D
I produced a whole ep for a label in Italy entirely using iPad apps - which I worked on mostly in cozy coffee shops. It was like hi tech, lo-fi music production. I’m a big believer in addition through subtraction. Nowadays I’ve completely subtracted DAWs from most of the creation end of making music and gone to a hardware set up with cheap tape deck for recording live performances. Using daws exclusively for editing and mastering. Music + computer screen is something i no longer have an appetite for. When I think of making music, I want to visual organic places - not surrounded by a cubicle and other square objects.
Wow that's amazing.
OMG, get that coffee cup and crumbs away from that new keyboard! LOL!
I love when people prove that you don’t need fancy plugins or expensive sample banks to make good music.
Guy, it is a lot of fun watching Your videos...Speccialy at moment, when deadline for my work is in 3 days...:) . ThanX
Ha! Get back to work
Simply inspiring!
If only the patrons could hear that!
I haven't buy the midi keyboard yet, but I‘m curious if i could write music without connecting to the power near the shore, only with my laptop.
Why are you doing this to yourself you silly genius? Very brave to sit there with a mini keyboard and actually writing a very nice tune matching your surroundings. I love your videos.
I really love your videos. There are fantastic . Did you ever try the Logic Strings plugin ?
Nice vid, I do this often....Logic has new sounds in strings and brass, I don’t use them but they are supposed to be ok with more control, I think they are are called Studio strings and studio brass. The old orchestral sounds in logic are supposed to from the Vienna Library, but cannot confirm this! Anyway very nice video and good courses you have as I’ve taken a few!
Just right for that last minute Christmas special request
What a wonderful thing to film. Thank you. I never considered the real life application of writing music in a live setting, so often I am playing some sort of known tune live, but the two aren’t the same are they?
Well Master Guy, that was great fun indeed! I might just have to but one of those Akai mini keyboards too! Quick question, how are you capturing the sound/screen video of Logic from the Mac? Hello from cold and wet Ireland! ☘️💪🏽👀👍🏽☘️
Does anyone think this composition should be on the Hallmark channel for a movie or Hallmark Christmas movie! Great work!
You should try the new Studio Strings and Studio Horns instruments next time you open Logic. They’re much newer, and closer to modern libraries. They were added in 10.4.
ah good point
Hi Guy! I have a question (maybe you could actually make a video on this😉). If you have 1000£ to spend on your very first library(or libraries) for composing(lets assume you got everything else like computer, DAW, studiomonitors, microphones,studio and so on) what would you buy to start off?
hmm tough one. I'll give it some thought!
Absolutely love this dude💯💯
Amazing! Great video Guy, thanks for sharing this with us. That must have been interesting composing & also talking to your camera in a public place like that :)
Perhaps you could do a second one of these videos trying out the factory sounds you get in Kontakt 5 Full (Not Komplete, just the factory sounds when you get the full version of Kontakt)? I believe most of the orchestral stuff in there is actually from VSL too!
Mildly stressful frankly
I love. you and your videos!