Making atmospheres is great, but if I made a film that was just really good atmospheres, nobody would watch it. How should I go about "telling a story" with this kind of music?
I agree, and how you do it is up to you. Everyone tells a story differently. You can go about a musical narrative many ways. One atmosphere might not be a story, but many atmospheres (or scenes, or events) strung together is a story. You can practice using the event approach. Map a story out as events - create your own or use someone else’s story. You can use words to tell the story, or pictures, anything. Then try to follow the story as you improvise on your instrument. There should be a clear vision. Every note and sound should serve a purpose and have meaning. Watching a lot of movies and thinking about how you can translate the scenes into your own music. Stare at an abstract painting and find the story, or meaning, inside it. How can you translate that into music? Different styles of music tell stories differently. Classical, folk, electronic, blues. All worthy of inspection.
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Some really cool ideas here I haven't seen before. Probably not going to do any of that with my nice guitars though haha.
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Making atmospheres is great, but if I made a film that was just really good atmospheres, nobody would watch it. How should I go about "telling a story" with this kind of music?
I'd also like to know more about telling a story through music. Does that connect with "working with the atmosphere"?
I agree, and how you do it is up to you. Everyone tells a story differently. You can go about a musical narrative many ways. One atmosphere might not be a story, but many atmospheres (or scenes, or events) strung together is a story. You can practice using the event approach. Map a story out as events - create your own or use someone else’s story. You can use words to tell the story, or pictures, anything. Then try to follow the story as you improvise on your instrument. There should be a clear vision. Every note and sound should serve a purpose and have meaning.
Watching a lot of movies and thinking about how you can translate the scenes into your own music. Stare at an abstract painting and find the story, or meaning, inside it. How can you translate that into music? Different styles of music tell stories differently. Classical, folk, electronic, blues. All worthy of inspection.
@@NotRightMusic Great answer!