Hi! I just need to get this off my chest. I'm "only" 34 but I have been writing and recorded my own music in Cubase since I was 9 back in 1995. I've released several albums, toured and also written music for other artists. I studied music for 10 years so I know quite a lot about music theory. Even so, I haven't had any interest in writing music for the past couple of years, just because I felt stuck and that everything I wrote sounded the same. I found your channel just a couple of days ago and I think I've watched your every video about composition and it has been so valuable and inspiring that it got my motivation back. So thank you, really!
Guy shows a definite flair for creating interesting presentations. His TH-cam channel teaches and entertains like a Monty Python show. The lessons move fast, but dedicated viewers learn what they didn't know, and then understand how to improve. Guy M is a blessing. Individual creativity combined with his guidance should rapidly remove musical drivel from our ears.
I’m 27 and learned how to make hip hop beats in fl studio years ago. I didn’t make music for 7 years and this January I got fl studio again. This sounds like stuff I make. Just keep learning. My first thought was “this is me 😅” and I laughed when he said it was a musical car crash 👌
I've attempted a few pieces that I've written to specific scenes in movies I like. They mostly sound like this. Nice to know GM would hate them immediately, cos I did too.
Sir, you have shown me that I'm far more capable than I would've ever thought. I've spent my entire adult life as a dumb heavy rock drummer with bigger musical visions. Visions that I always assumed were out of reach of my actual musical abilities... man, have I been wrong for 35 years....THANK YOU, Mr. Michelmore, for showing the world that musical creation doesn't have to be mega complicated.
If someone was searching for timestamps... 2:52 What Is My Idea? 4:49 Make Sure Everything Lines Up 16:34 Space Your Ideas Out 30:38 Make Sure Instruments Have Their Own Sonic Space 36:26 Reverses Help Transitions
Super informative Mr.Guy! Since I am a total noob even at amateur level of composing music, I was confused when you said that the music was trash in the beginning. Little did I know that, my whole thought process would change by the end of the video! Really appreciate your work :)
I like the violin tune in the first one, it has emotion and reminds me of an old Irish tune. So there is a very big redeeming quality for you. The improvements were a great lesson in making something highly polished, pleasant, interesting with varied background, but without that violin I was not moved much by it.
It's great to see a professional going into the Piano Roll and dragging stuff around. With some TH-camrs, you get the impression that everything is done by a magical keyboard shortcut like ctrl-cmd-shift-esc-dollar sign.
Again - just brilliant - when you say each instrument needs its own sonic space, it's a completely different than advice from audio mixing blogs that say to EQ and shape frequencies that clash, but here you're saying just play in different spaces, both in terms of frequency and rhythm, which means there's little need to cut frequencies in the mix. BRILLIANT.
Excellent video! Composing is a lot like scultping, in the sense that you are actively chipping away at the piece, you have to know what you don’t want the piece to be, in order to find out what you do want it to be.
Great video Guy, as always. But one thingy would be helpful: a short "what have you learned today" summary or something similar at the end. Also you could write the "5 things" in short sentences in the video descriptions, perhaps even with a timestamp. Does that make sense?
If you're too lazy to watch the video how are you gonna persevere long enough to create great music? Be grateful you have someone like him as a teacher.
You couldn't be more right in regards to music needing one good idea that stands as the foundation. I develop allot of artists in my line of work and one of the biggest problem I find with bad music is the fact that people send me Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Future Bass and Synthwave etc... which just wanders aimlessly with no direction or meaning. Then I'm asked what I think of the 'drop' in their tune and I have to explain to them that they have sent me four minutes of relentless ideas joined together with no form or function. Cheers!
Guy, always worry when you have a hot drink hovering over that beautiful keyboard, you have form 😀. Exquisitely enthusiastic and infectiously inspirational. Thank you for sharing your talent and humour. Paul, Kent.
Thanks Guy, for those of us who play by eye with little music training (mostly self), your channel is a treasure trove. Your enthusiasm for music always comes through. Without the discipline of music theory, some of our stuff sounds "lost in space" structurally and harmonically. You pull us back into the the sensible disciplines of music theory. The old synth players like myself often get lost in texture rather than melody, rhythm and harmony and fall into patterns of what we know rather than what we should know. I find your training useful.
If you have a reverse crash, having it go to silence (nothing) is (to me) a bit awkward and can actually draw MORE attention to it than it deserves. LOL. Now, it can be a cymbal crash but it can also be a nice tasty synth chord hit that fades out, or a noise hit. I consider transitions to be kind of a Question/Answer component in production. Having a question with no answer will draw more attention to it. Just my opinion here. There are some great snippets of advice here. Nice one GM!
I love your energy and vibe. Your colourful language makes me want to learn more from you/ThinkSpace and develop a career in music. Thank you for sharing your decades of knowledge for free to people like me who have a true musical passion and yearn to learn to be awesome! 🎉❤️
...that's a musical car crash. So genius, there is so much more to learn from your videos than "only" music. Thanks for all of your time doing these great videos!
Grand designs , the peice and the patches sound like some thing from that TV show . The music suits the part where Graham Mackay the host is on his his final visit to the property
I would not be surprised if you were involved with Monty Python productions. You show us a passion for teaching music. Thank you for making TH-cam presentations for beginners, such as myself. They are interesting and entertaining (where intended). Keep up the great work!
15:54 “We’ve worked out what’s important…” that would be the tea, obviously, Guy. 😊 Does anyone else ever just copy the bass part to the drums and force them all to C1, or whatever your kick drum is on, and chop out any passing notes? Sometimes, I find it the best way to lock them together meaningfully.
Thanks so much for this approach! Taking something bad, breaking it down and identifying the badness and showing how to improve it. This is needed just as much as the videos where everything just appears to fall into place. Thank you!
@@ThinkSpaceEducation Please continue with this piece (as painful as it may be), and show us what you would do to take it from your so called lift mediocrity and lift it to a level that you think is actually good. There is so much to learn from watching your thought processes in action!
Great video. This has shamed me into going back to something I had technically finished and having another crack at it - the textures were very pretty but no-one can deny that there's a harmonic horror at its heart.
I looooooove these videos! You energy is great. Tiny request, a deEsser on your vocal mic. It’s a bit sharp in the ear when listening on AirPods. Great content though 🙌
I'd love to see a follow up to this explaining how to improve the sound with EQ, effects and a proper mix. In my head i can think of this piece going fully orchestral at some point with some mighty horns blasting out the idea melody. Unfortunately i'm not on the level to make this happen atm. Is anyone else up to this?
from the start i agree with you , the intro music was just perfect for a lot of bad soap opera that i have seen lately but it is good to listen that, to know how to make a better life , this intro was so boring that it could be a hit for a lost soul , you way to give classes is the contrary , i appreciate a lot how to make learning music a delight , thanks
You’re so expressive while talking and it’s very entertaining. But I gotta say, Every time you reached past that cup of tea above that keyboard I started rubbing my forehead just riddled with worry.
A work of music can always do with a little cut and trim and some polish, sometimes you need dynamite to get anything good out of it, thanks to Guy for the inspiring videos.
You write music with so much skill. I can hear those little nuisances in all music I make but never know how to fix it, I just know something is wrong. Compared to what you were looking at mine would sound like a train wreck🤣 I am embarrassed to know so little
"that's not a tune, that's a musical carcrash"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣you are just as funny as you are a musical genius Guy! Love your videos and all that there is to learn, you are my favourite teacher ever🎹🎶❤
Dude, you're awesome! I've watched a couple of videos now and I'm really digging what you teach. And you make me think of Gordon Gordon Wyatt, from Bones and not just the accent, but the whole attitude, body language and facial expressions. I always thought they should have done a lot more with Gordon Wyatt, but you make up for it. I'm going to watch a lot more on your channel, for sure. ;)
Thanks Guy...I'm loving having discovered your videos in recent times..really enjoying them and learning a lot! Thank you. How is the new Komplete keyboard going...I've had my eye on it for a while..still enjoying it?
I always enjoy the style, as well as the information, on your channel. I wasn’t quite convinced by the instrumentation of this piece. I liked having the viola tune but, to me, the vibes don’t sit well in the ensemble to my amateur ears. I can’t imagine there being much music in written for a band format like this.
Right then, I'm one minute into the video and I love it simply because you told me to get a coffee! Based on that I'm already thinking about signing up to Thinkspace!
hey, dude...i have see your clips, and you made me better in music,sounds and "progress"...! you are a so good theacher and musican!...respekt!...have a nice 2021...your KrautRockt!er... from germany.. PS: i like your lessions so much!...
The first couple of bars of the piano is Bach's Cello in D (and other things I suppose). On that note, if you do write a melody or chord riff that is easily identifiable as something well-known - no matter how it develops - should you stop?
That first part, of the first bit of music, made me think of that old claymation Christmas movie called Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Especially in the string line. Add some sleigh bells and it would be almost perfect. So crazy!
You are incredibly enjoyable to listen to. I love your cozy, personal touches: getting a drink and a biscuit, etc. if I may be so bold, I don’t personally need you to be so self effacing. I like you and your music and advice is top notch. Maybe it’s the American in me, but I sometimes get upset when you self loath because I get protective of you. Haha. Just user feedback for what it’s worth. Great channel!
Huck...interesting comment....the British and Americans speak the same language but have a different culture. It’s quite a common trait in the UK to be self effacing but as a lack of confidence.....it’s done more in jest (humour). Where as if Americans have a talent you are taught to self promote your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
@@sheffsteel7 agreed, and also, I make the comment for its nuances. My wife is British and I see the self effacing humor often. I think it can be a grey area, where the self inflected satire becomes down putting. For some reason this video made me think of it.
The concept to start from a bad idea and to fix it was great! I would love to see another video with the same concept. However this time I think that the final version of the song was not so much better than the original one.. PS. I really enjoy your videos! Thank you, Guy :-)
Yeah, but I don't think the point was going from bad to great. It was more getting from a mess to functional mediocrity. It was more cohesive, in time, in tune, and easier to follow and make sense of by the end. It would be interesting to see a "taking it from truly bad to absolutely epic" type deal lol
Guy, why you no use komplete as your container for kontakt instruments? You have the s88. The display will let you use the knobs for many, if not all your instrument parameters. Peace and love.
What about some dirty percussive mutes on the Strat with a nifty bit of delay A La Ewan Dobson for a dash of counter melody interspersed with some dryish random drum rolls for a bit of drive. Just a thought.
Could I ask you to do a video on your approach to drum tracks for people know know next to nothing about drums? Every video I've seen out on the internets assumes you're a drummer who wants to program a drum track, which ... I'm not. Drums at the same level that you explain other music theory stuff. The equivalent of working in the key of C. You seem to have made it nice and simple in this video.
Thank you Guy, another great video! It's true that it's not rocket science still, even if these might be well known aspect of composition, there are two advantages on your video: first is that it's useful to put them all toghether as rules to follow and second is that you might have heard those advices 20 times, but these are things that needs to be remembered now and then because, particularly if one's an old chap like me and doesn't do this as a daily job, we tend to forget and get stuck again in the same old mistakes. So thanks twice :-)
Guy... The simple things that you present to the simple folk, are the amazing things that the simple folk simply need to hear. It's as simple as that,. There are so many channels available for people with assumed knowledge. You assume nothing, and that is the brilliance of Guy Mitchelmore. 12000 views in 2 days.
Hi!
I just need to get this off my chest. I'm "only" 34 but I have been writing and recorded my own music in Cubase since I was 9 back in 1995. I've released several albums, toured and also written music for other artists. I studied music for 10 years so I know quite a lot about music theory. Even so, I haven't had any interest in writing music for the past couple of years, just because I felt stuck and that everything I wrote sounded the same.
I found your channel just a couple of days ago and I think I've watched your every video about composition and it has been so valuable and inspiring that it got my motivation back.
So thank you, really!
I used to write lift music, it had its ups and downs.
ooh that's bad
Hilarious!
That made me chuckle
always helped me get off
That elevated bad jokes to new heights
"Hello everybody, and welcome to the shed"
Guy would be such a polite Jigsaw-esque movie villain
"I had it painted with the blood of students who where not invited to live, ones that wrote like this, ones that wrote like You!"
Ahhh! The garden shed!
A quiet space,
away from the hectic world,
where the older British male is most himself! Heheh! 😸_👍
"Pro Celebrity Lift Jumping ",,,,,,,,,,,??
I was addicted to lift music but i changed my mindset and took all the necessary steps to avoid it.
Yes exactly. You took "the steps"
Yours words not mine. 😅😅
Solid gold mate
Guy shows a definite flair for creating interesting presentations. His TH-cam channel teaches and entertains like a Monty Python show. The lessons move fast, but dedicated viewers learn what they didn't know, and then understand how to improve. Guy M is a blessing. Individual creativity combined with his guidance should rapidly remove musical drivel from our ears.
I laughed out loud when you described my "unfinished" folder... it really is bigger than everything else put together! :-D
Haha! Mine, too!
Is there even a "finished" folder somewhere?
The piece at the start gives me Sims vibes, it isn't actually that bad... lol
It got better as the day went on!
@@ThinkSpaceEducation That's for sure!
Hell, that's what I thought!!
Came here literally just to say that lol
Video game music is the new lift music. It inherently needs to be able to not go anywhere until you find the boss battle.
1:30 worrying that Guy's piece of slaughtered rubbish is still way better than anything I could wrote...
Exactly what I was thinking
I’m 27 and learned how to make hip hop beats in fl studio years ago. I didn’t make music for 7 years and this January I got fl studio again. This sounds like stuff I make. Just keep learning. My first thought was “this is me 😅” and I laughed when he said it was a musical car crash 👌
Yep, was also thinking: this is not so bad, I would be happy if I could compose something like this on my own ;)
I've attempted a few pieces that I've written to specific scenes in movies I like. They mostly sound like this. Nice to know GM would hate them immediately, cos I did too.
LOL I was just thinking the exact same thing. We are our own worst critic.
Sir, you have shown me that I'm far more capable than I would've ever thought. I've spent my entire adult life as a dumb heavy rock drummer with bigger musical visions. Visions that I always assumed were out of reach of my actual musical abilities... man, have I been wrong for 35 years....THANK YOU, Mr. Michelmore, for showing the world that musical creation doesn't have to be mega complicated.
If someone was searching for timestamps...
2:52 What Is My Idea?
4:49 Make Sure Everything Lines Up
16:34 Space Your Ideas Out
30:38 Make Sure Instruments Have Their Own Sonic Space
36:26 Reverses Help Transitions
Tnx
@@emyyyyyy39 you're welcome 😏
Thanks for the time stamps!
The last one is hot in the EDM music industry
Super informative Mr.Guy!
Since I am a total noob even at amateur level of composing music, I was confused when you said that the music was trash in the beginning. Little did I know that, my whole thought process would change by the end of the video! Really appreciate your work :)
I just found you an absolutely love your TH-cam videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your light.
At 24:33 - I'm glad I'm not the only person who plays imaginary vibrato on a keyboard when playing a string patch
I saw that too xD
Well, maybe the keyboard producers could take it as a suggestion of a new function? Lateral key control...
@@fpwu Check out the Expressive E Osmose.
Or Roli
@@fpwu Heard of aftertouch? Jokes aside, the Roli one (Seabord, was it?) and the Linnstrument both have this feature.
One of the best youtube channels out there.
Thank you
I totally agree!! Love this TH-cam channel ❤👍❤
I like the violin tune in the first one, it has emotion and reminds me of an old Irish tune. So there is a very big redeeming quality for you. The improvements were a great lesson in making something highly polished, pleasant, interesting with varied background, but without that violin I was not moved much by it.
It's great to see a professional going into the Piano Roll and dragging stuff around. With some TH-camrs, you get the impression that everything is done by a magical keyboard shortcut like ctrl-cmd-shift-esc-dollar sign.
What you see is what you get
All they are all cooking with the same water...
Again - just brilliant - when you say each instrument needs its own sonic space, it's a completely different than advice from audio mixing blogs that say to EQ and shape frequencies that clash, but here you're saying just play in different spaces, both in terms of frequency and rhythm, which means there's little need to cut frequencies in the mix. BRILLIANT.
Dude, you give us so much of your time, for free! Great content, nice guy. I salute you sir!
Thank you
Excellent video! Composing is a lot like scultping, in the sense that you are actively chipping away at the piece, you have to know what you don’t want the piece to be, in order to find out what you do want it to be.
"It's not a tune, it's a musical car crash" - Guy Michelmore, 2020
Great video Guy, as always. But one thingy would be helpful: a short "what have you learned today" summary or something similar at the end. Also you could write the "5 things" in short sentences in the video descriptions, perhaps even with a timestamp. Does that make sense?
If you're too lazy to watch the video how are you gonna persevere long enough to create great music? Be grateful you have someone like him as a teacher.
@@DreamBeatsBakery ? Thank you. Hope you feel better now. You're welcome.
"That's not a tune, that's a musical car crash"
Made me choke on my drink there xD
You couldn't be more right in regards to music needing one good idea that stands as the foundation. I develop allot of artists in my line of work and one of the biggest problem I find with bad music is the fact that people send me Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Future Bass and Synthwave etc... which just wanders aimlessly with no direction or meaning. Then I'm asked what I think of the 'drop' in their tune and I have to explain to them that they have sent me four minutes of relentless ideas joined together with no form or function. Cheers!
I love the analogy of a melody being like a child lost in a supermarket!!
"Terrible vibes" was an amazing piece of music. Elevator classic.
This is my favorite music channel. Guy's are the only ones that don't lose me 2 minutes in. Thank you Guy!
Guy, always worry when you have a hot drink hovering over that beautiful keyboard, you have form 😀. Exquisitely enthusiastic and infectiously inspirational. Thank you for sharing your talent and humour. Paul, Kent.
Thanks Guy, for those of us who play by eye with little music training (mostly self), your channel is a treasure trove. Your enthusiasm for music always comes through. Without the discipline of music theory, some of our stuff sounds "lost in space" structurally and harmonically. You pull us back into the the sensible disciplines of music theory. The old synth players like myself often get lost in texture rather than melody, rhythm and harmony and fall into patterns of what we know rather than what we should know. I find your training useful.
If you have a reverse crash, having it go to silence (nothing) is (to me) a bit awkward and can actually draw MORE attention to it than it deserves. LOL. Now, it can be a cymbal crash but it can also be a nice tasty synth chord hit that fades out, or a noise hit. I consider transitions to be kind of a Question/Answer component in production. Having a question with no answer will draw more attention to it. Just my opinion here. There are some great snippets of advice here. Nice one GM!
I love your energy and vibe. Your colourful language makes me want to learn more from you/ThinkSpace and develop a career in music. Thank you for sharing your decades of knowledge for free to people like me who have a true musical passion and yearn to learn to be awesome! 🎉❤️
Guy, you're such a blessing! Cheers for all the amazing content and great energy.
...that's a musical car crash. So genius, there is so much more to learn from your videos than "only" music. Thanks for all of your time doing these great videos!
Thanks for the leg up Guy....
Your advice has given me a sense of direction...
😎
It's like musically experiencing a building society advert from 20 years ago! ;) Great video.
Yup :)
Has a very love/drama/comedy film score vibe going on! Love it!
I have loads of 1 minute ideas which don't seem to go anywhere...and I think this video nails it as to why! Thanks for another really useful video!
“Stinkily done drums”....I’m stealing this phrase for the next drummer I record! 😂👍🏼
You're welcome!
It has its own rhythm if you say it right too 😂
"Stinkily" is a perfectly cromulent word.
Your humor cracks me up. Good ideas that are applicable to all genres.
Could you make a video about how you went from a news anchor to a film composer?
your tune is literally the perfect on hold for hours loop
Love your videos Guy! Im learning alot. God bless you from Norway!
Thanks for all the great ideas and inspiration! They’ve helped me with my compositions for sure!
Who could have thought that making sure your harmonic and rhythmic elements don't clash might make your music better???? MIND. BLOWN.
Grand designs , the peice and the patches sound like some thing from that TV show .
The music suits the part where Graham Mackay the host is on his his final visit to the property
absolutely love your channel, man. very informative and highly entertaining. can't get enough.
6:40 Physical proof of Guy's immense and unreal knowledge as it ripples the lens of the camera.
I would not be surprised if you were involved with Monty Python productions. You show us a passion for teaching music. Thank you for making TH-cam presentations for beginners, such as myself. They are interesting and entertaining (where intended). Keep up the great work!
15:54 “We’ve worked out what’s important…” that would be the tea, obviously, Guy. 😊
Does anyone else ever just copy the bass part to the drums and force them all to C1, or whatever your kick drum is on, and chop out any passing notes? Sometimes, I find it the best way to lock them together meaningfully.
Thanks so much for this approach! Taking something bad, breaking it down and identifying the badness and showing how to improve it. This is needed just as much as the videos where everything just appears to fall into place. Thank you!
Well that's what I hoped
@@ThinkSpaceEducation Please continue with this piece (as painful as it may be), and show us what you would do to take it from your so called lift mediocrity and lift it to a level that you think is actually good. There is so much to learn from watching your thought processes in action!
Guy’s videos are acc a form of therapy, I feel so deeply at peace at the end of every video lol
I know...I think I'd be watching even if I wasn't trying to learn music.
Great video. This has shamed me into going back to something I had technically finished and having another crack at it - the textures were very pretty but no-one can deny that there's a harmonic horror at its heart.
I really wouldn’t describe using a relative minor and major at the same time as a harmonic horror!!
I looooooove these videos! You energy is great.
Tiny request, a deEsser on your vocal mic. It’s a bit sharp in the ear when listening on AirPods.
Great content though 🙌
You are just awesome, Guy! I thoroughly enjoyed watching you work on what is sure to be nominated for the "Annual Lift Music of the Year Awards!"
I'd love to see a follow up to this explaining how to improve the sound with EQ, effects and a proper mix. In my head i can think of this piece going fully orchestral at some point with some mighty horns blasting out the idea melody. Unfortunately i'm not on the level to make this happen atm. Is anyone else up to this?
Yes let's ....well, Guy go all the way with this mix.
...I especially liked the piano and vibes trick... one might almost call it a Cunning, Cunning Pan...
from the start i agree with you , the intro music was just perfect for a lot of bad soap opera that i have seen lately but it is good to listen that, to know how to make a better life , this intro was so boring that it could be a hit for a lost soul , you way to give classes is the contrary , i appreciate a lot how to make learning music a delight , thanks
Amazing transformation. I thought it was OK to start but it became quite good. Learned a lot, thank you!
4:20 Of course. If you need to get rid of something, it's always has to be a viola:D
Vibes, drums, bass, and strings work... The piano and guitar make me want to remove my ears. : ) Great tips, video, and commentary! Thanks, Guy
My friend, you are to me now the Tony Robinson of film scoring :-)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
:-)
This is absolutely brilliant. So interesting to follow the thought process. (Taking a deep breath and looking at my "Unfinished ideas" folder...)
You’re so expressive while talking and it’s very entertaining. But I gotta say, Every time you reached past that cup of tea above that keyboard I started rubbing my forehead just riddled with worry.
A work of music can always do with a little cut and trim and some polish, sometimes you need dynamite to get anything good out of it, thanks to Guy for the inspiring videos.
OHHH NOOOOO...... ear worm alert!!!!
I found myself humming this tune while waiting in the queue for lunch....
Definitely going to take these tips into consideration whilst nextmaking music, Thanks Guy!!
What kind of in ear monitors are you using for this video?
You write music with so much skill. I can hear those little nuisances in all music I make but never know how to fix it, I just know something is wrong.
Compared to what you were looking at mine would sound like a train wreck🤣 I am embarrassed to know so little
"that's not a tune, that's a musical carcrash"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣you are just as funny as you are a musical genius Guy!
Love your videos and all that there is to learn, you are my favourite teacher ever🎹🎶❤
The colors in this video are amazing, what did you change? looks great.
Dude, you're awesome! I've watched a couple of videos now and I'm really digging what you teach. And you make me think of Gordon Gordon Wyatt, from Bones and not just the accent, but the whole attitude, body language and facial expressions. I always thought they should have done a lot more with Gordon Wyatt, but you make up for it. I'm going to watch a lot more on your channel, for sure. ;)
Thanks Guy...I'm loving having discovered your videos in recent times..really enjoying them and learning a lot! Thank you. How is the new Komplete keyboard going...I've had my eye on it for a while..still enjoying it?
I’m no composer but I do enjoy learning some music theory which I think helps me with understanding and playing guitar.
I always enjoy the style, as well as the information, on your channel. I wasn’t quite convinced by the instrumentation of this piece. I liked having the viola tune but, to me, the vibes don’t sit well in the ensemble to my amateur ears. I can’t imagine there being much music in written for a band format like this.
Right then, I'm one minute into the video and I love it simply because you told me to get a coffee! Based on that I'm already thinking about signing up to Thinkspace!
hey, dude...i have see your clips, and you made me better in music,sounds and "progress"...! you are a so good theacher and musican!...respekt!...have a nice 2021...your KrautRockt!er... from germany.. PS: i like your lessions so much!...
The first couple of bars of the piano is Bach's Cello in D (and other things I suppose). On that note, if you do write a melody or chord riff that is easily identifiable as something well-known - no matter how it develops -
should you stop?
Only if it's still under copyright. Bach and co are fair game.
That first part, of the first bit of music, made me think of that old claymation Christmas movie called Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Especially in the string line. Add some sleigh bells and it would be almost perfect. So crazy!
Well, Guy, you just presented the main dilemmas in my writing. Very useful. Thank you so much!
I just posted your video for my Berklee Class assignment. Good stuff.
"We're gonna work on it until we get to true mediocrity." Hilarious!
Keep that tune handy. Spitfire Audio have a competition for composers coming up.
Too soon? ☹️
LOL Yes, too soon. 😃
Lmaooo noo that’s great ahaha😂
Classic
You are incredibly enjoyable to listen to. I love your cozy, personal touches: getting a drink and a biscuit, etc. if I may be so bold, I don’t personally need you to be so self effacing. I like you and your music and advice is top notch. Maybe it’s the American in me, but I sometimes get upset when you self loath because I get protective of you. Haha. Just user feedback for what it’s worth. Great channel!
Huck...interesting comment....the British and Americans speak the same language but have a different culture. It’s quite a common trait in the UK to be self effacing but as a lack of confidence.....it’s done more in jest (humour). Where as if Americans have a talent you are taught to self promote your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
@@sheffsteel7 agreed, and also, I make the comment for its nuances. My wife is British and I see the self effacing humor often. I think it can be a grey area, where the self inflected satire becomes down putting. For some reason this video made me think of it.
The concept to start from a bad idea and to fix it was great! I would love to see another video with the same concept. However this time I think that the final version of the song was not so much better than the original one.. PS. I really enjoy your videos! Thank you, Guy :-)
Yeah, but I don't think the point was going from bad to great. It was more getting from a mess to functional mediocrity. It was more cohesive, in time, in tune, and easier to follow and make sense of by the end.
It would be interesting to see a "taking it from truly bad to absolutely epic" type deal lol
The first listen to that piece, reminded me of a ridiculous preset demo from a very crappy organ. I loved it.
Inspirational thanks Guy. Hammers home that I need to learn Cubase and shortcuts a bit better too.
Guy, why you no use komplete as your container for kontakt instruments? You have the s88. The display will let you use the knobs for many, if not all your instrument parameters. Peace and love.
What about some dirty percussive mutes on the Strat with a nifty bit of delay A La Ewan Dobson for a dash of counter melody interspersed with some dryish random drum rolls for a bit of drive. Just a thought.
i really love your humor as you go lol 😅, learning day by day here.
Fantastic lessons... thanks so much
So funny and yet educational. I lol'd and I learned, as usual :)
Honestly I think its not that bad, it reminds me a lot of kingdom hearts, when you walk around a peaceful part in a town
It's been 9 minutes and I've made 45 songs! This works!
Hahaha....BRILLIANT!
You must be writing grindcore.
On a sincere note, I love your videos Guy! Very inspiring
Could I ask you to do a video on your approach to drum tracks for people know know next to nothing about drums? Every video I've seen out on the internets assumes you're a drummer who wants to program a drum track, which ... I'm not. Drums at the same level that you explain other music theory stuff. The equivalent of working in the key of C. You seem to have made it nice and simple in this video.
Hilarious!! I love your teaching method and wonderful sense of humor Guy!! I had so much fun watching this - you are AWESOME! Thank you 👍😁👍
Great video. Humor and yet I’m learning so much. Thanks!
Your superbly refreshing, honest and inspiring in the best way.
This is the best and most constructive help I've found in ages.
Thank you Guy, another great video!
It's true that it's not rocket science still, even if these might be well known aspect of composition, there are two advantages on your video: first is that it's useful to put them all toghether as rules to follow and second is that you might have heard those advices 20 times, but these are things that needs to be remembered now and then because, particularly if one's an old chap like me and doesn't do this as a daily job, we tend to forget and get stuck again in the same old mistakes.
So thanks twice :-)
Guy... The simple things that you present to the simple folk, are the amazing things that the simple folk simply need to hear. It's as simple as that,. There are so many channels available for people with assumed knowledge. You assume nothing, and that is the brilliance of Guy Mitchelmore. 12000 views in 2 days.
Amazing music channel! Thank you for your time. I spent hours listen and trying to lern your great knowledgement sir. Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹 ✌️