Doubling the length though is extreme; if we strretch it even more and use an algorithm to preserve tonal quality that isnt actually there because it’s, uh, drums and you get cool shit like this:
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Would love to have a musician or two.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
I’ve been trying to do a little bit each day since I am way out of the loop (!) on modern DAWs. Not sure I am sold (!) on Ardour because I don’t find the MIDI implementation to be all that useful for composing–probably because I don’t understand it.
I have a track fully composed in my head, but it’s been a struggle to get it into MIDI format. Some of it is already recorded and scored. For the scoring, I found it’s much easier for me to just enter the notes and durations in a guitar tablature program since that’s my native instrument. The only problem is that this particular piece of software blows at all other facets of GUI and MIDI implementation. So then I downloaded about a half dozen packages for scoring and am still working through them to see if there’s a silver bullet in here.
I’m not sure MIDI is necessary unless you want to play your music through MIDI capable synths later? I don’t know anything about Ardour. Seems like you just want to change guitar tab to a music score?
I had to analyze stuff for Theory classes in college and have been thinking about doing a review of all of that this winter. I still have my books, notes, and all handouts. I know who I’m asking for help when I need it. I want to be able to compose better.
ETA: I got good grades analyzing pieces. Chords, structures, etc. On paper I understand it. As a drummer though having not played any melodic instruments extensively, my ear is horrible. My ear training teacher likely let me pass because he knew I was a drummer and tried hard in my classes. Singing scales in front of the class was one of the hardest things I did in college. I hate public speaking so singing scales was a bitch. Didn’t help that I got high before classes and then was nervous as fuck lol. It’s something I’ve been putting off for awhile.
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Yeah I want that ability. Also, I’m playing some stuff in with a MIDI keyboard, but not all of it because I’m not Art Tatum. Also, some of it doesn’t really translate too well from keys. Don’t I wan’t to have the MIDI everywhere I can get it for free though?
I think it is pretty standard “draw in the notes” on the horizontal grid with piano roll. Feels like it would take hours to do something I can enter in a few minutes in a tab program. The problem is I need a 14-string “guitar” that covers 8 octaves to get piano range and for some reason I can only have 7 strings.
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Have you looked at Musescore (3)?
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What smrk4 said looks possible but also Sibelius or Finale?
Yes I have it installed but didn’t get deep into it yet. I’ll have to look at the documentation.
I think if any of those will work you will be able to export it to a score or MIDI file if you want. Seems like it’s cutting out the middle man (MIDI) and you can enter as your preferred method.
In b4 6ix lays out a straight up tutorial for it all with examples.
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masterpieces obv
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Electronic music. Most of my melodies are based on modulated voltage controlled oscillators. So, a wave of some form modulated by some random source and sent through a quantizer for a certain key and sent through various effects. Then, find something catchy out of that and build on it.
My understanding of harmony and leading, dominant, resolving tones and modulations to different keys and shit like that is under a fog of bong resin and malted hops and I never really used it drumming other than recognizing chord changes. We used to get a chord in Theory worksheets and have to follow certain rules to finish the measure and it was more math or logic than ear training then for me because it was on paper.
My ear training teacher used to make us analyze songs by ear and he’d pick obscure Beatles songs with weird jazz chords and shit and I looked them up on google or whatever existed in 2002 and either I was way off and he laughed or I was better than the guitar players by cheating that he laughed. That’s what I think happened anyway. I passed the class.
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It sounds familiar but pretty sure we got dropped this analyzing sheet music as a midterm or final test one semester without audio to analyze the sonata form. That’s very wrong imo.
