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Do you have a musical education?
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Medea
Aedem/Medea
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Posted : Aug 13, 2007 15:45
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complete 8-years music school - piano, music theory, composition etc...
after that played guitar for a couple of years, now studiing sound engineering in the university.
music school helps a lot, but learning sound engineering is much more effective reading books, internet and practicing...) imho. or maybe education on this subject here in Russia isn't good enough...
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pavaka
IsraTrance Full Member
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Posted : Aug 13, 2007 16:29
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koncz
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Posted : Aug 13, 2007 18:25
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no, unfortunately i had no education at all  . all i do now is listen to music thoroughly, read books about synths, fx, sound engineering and stuff and read tutorials, forums.....an tweak the knobs till my fingers bleed.....
but music is so wunderful, its the best thing you can do with you time...just create a piece of time. |
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MadScientist
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Posted : Aug 13, 2007 19:46
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none, except a tiny bit when I was 4-5years old for a year or so...all I know I learned from the net or a good friend here who has a really big knowledge about music, but he is more into counterpoint and such and composing classical music for ochestral groups
in a month I start to make my degree in audio engineering, I'm already more than curious
but this isnt really a "musical" education 
https://soundcloud.com/hazak
"Have you ever had that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming?"
"Hmm, yeah... All the time, man - it's called mescaline. The only way to fly!" |
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OpenSourceCode
Datavore
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Posted : Aug 15, 2007 00:09
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i got an f in music theory in college!
ha ha! |
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Kane
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Posted : Aug 15, 2007 03:21
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Guitar for 3 years before I started producing, and somewhere around 1 of those years I was taking lessons..I also picked up drums and bass while playing guitar in several different bands using other people's equipment.
As for production, I've seen a lot of online tutorials and tips and done a lot of reading on isra, as well as experimenting while I'm making music, but again, no formal education. |
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Andrew
Voice Of Cod / Zuloop
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Posted : Aug 15, 2007 11:57
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clarinet in primary school for 3 years, choir at high school, and sneaking into the drum teachers room to play on his drum set. I didn't like the way music was taught at my school, it was very staid and old fashioned and the teachers were just not doing it for me (sorry mr May) so I didn't study it.
After school I played drums in several gigging bands in my home town of Brisbane, Australia, and started DJing in 1995. I've also done a fairly long stint writing about parties, reviewing music and related subjects for a Sydney dance music newspaper (see www.zuloop.net for the online version of these... sneaky plug - xdream, sid shanti interviews and more!!)
Started producing music in 2000, been picking up more theory lately, sound knowledge is all learned from friends and off the internet / reading books.
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rob-ot
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Posted : Aug 16, 2007 12:04
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i'm actually a professional music teacher (classical guitar) and performer; i.e. this is how I make my living...I think Human Blue is the same, i.e. he is a music teacher by profession.
so yes i have undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in music. does it help in writing electronic dance music? sometimes yes, sometimes no.
I find that because I have a good ear and can hear to a fine level of detail in general it helps with engineering and mixing, and making synth patterns and drum patterns interact in an evolving and organic way.
However, there are many things harmonically and melodically that just don't work in EDM, and such it has been hard to 'simplify' my musical vocabulary down to the point to where it would 'work' in trance. So this is where someone who didn't have a lot of musical background would be better off in a sense in that trance is make up of simple patterns and its best not to try to re-invent the wheel or mess with the 'basic tribal patterns'.
Really, this music is simple structurally, motivically, and melodically. Trance and EDM really is about sound design and synthesis, where all you need is patience and a decent
ear. Being able to play an instrument at a professional level, reading notes, etc. really doesn't make much, if any difference. |
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Chemogen
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Posted : Aug 16, 2007 15:13
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So how many people have niether a formal education in music theory or sound engineering, are totally self-taught but still manage to releae stuff? |
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