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Re: Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/05 17:35:03
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Remember folks. It's not the notes we play that make us great musicians. It's the notes we DON'T play.
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Re: Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/05 17:54:57
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This thread is interesting... I went to a college that was focused on engineering, and one day I went to the library and picked up the only music theory book they had (out of hundreds of thousands). IIRC, the copyright of that book was 1936, and the irony is that everything in that book is still applicable even today (music theory has not changed). Adding "gimmicks to sounds" doesn't not render music theory useless, yet people continue to be on an endless quest to do something "never done before."
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Re:Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/05 18:43:24
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I'm an old geezer. Shudent my muzik sound like it?! I'd look reelly silly playing kiddy stuff. What's popular with the world is not so with me. No one sez you have to like it. In fact, you'll probably never even hear it since I'm no pro and never will be. _________________________ I Cleen Toilets! 
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Re:Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/05 18:56:32
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If you feel old you will sound old. Every one has a right to feel good about themselves. That reflects in your music. Eat honey keep your vocals warm and think outside of the box. Let music keep you young. Experiment do something out of the norm dont let your music become mundane Shaun http://youtu.be/gc6WX4otj8g
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Re: Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/05 20:07:15
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gloglee
Remember folks. It's not the notes we play that make us great musicians. It's the notes we DON'T play.
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So, Dan, I have to ask because I REALLY want to know... How did you find this 5 year old thread? Was it random chance?
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Re:Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/05 20:45:28
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The irony is, if SongCraft managed to work out how to make his music sound more modern, then it's totally out of date by now. It's a good job I have a vague grasp of the definition of irony.
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Re:Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/06 11:40:46
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Last month I recorded a whole concert of music from the '80's...well...the 1680's. Great music and great sound doesn't have an expiration date. Synthesizers do. I think music would be much longer-lived if we stopped the reliance on computers to do the music making for us.
Of course that makes me an old geezer thinking that music should be played, not just listened to.
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Re:Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/06 14:48:14
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If your music sounds dated it is probably because it is! It means your ideas are dated. It has nothing to do with the instruments involved.
Daniel is showing his age (and bias) now in terms of synthesisers. They are here to stay. Obviously he has not heard Tangerine Dream. In many cases they play all the music live but on synthesisers.
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Re:Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/06 15:46:06
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Forget it.
post edited by rumleymusic - 2015/01/07 11:37:13
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Re:Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/06 19:48:53
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☄ Helpfulby Rain 2015/01/06 19:48:07
Sounding current is easy. You just need to be 17 years old, sing in a high, out of tune voice, have it Autotuned to extreme, not be able to play an instrument, star on a Disney network program, and then let the Big Music Execs create an after Disney image for you.
No sweat!
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Re:Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/06 20:11:26
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If you're over 35 and your music sounds hip and is in line with the new generation's tastes, I feel sorry for you.
I'm not concerned about appealing to teenagers and people in their early 20's anymore than I factor in the tastes of toddlers. Technically, they're a minority - and they don't even pay for their music, anyway...
Obviously, there are exceptions.
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Re:Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/07 08:38:50
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Jeff Evans
If your music sounds dated it is probably because it is! It means your ideas are dated. It has nothing to do with the instruments involved.
While this is an OLD thread...... dated might be the proper word..... is it a pun of itself? No matter, always a relevant topic for songwriters and artists..... Jeff nailed it..... It's not the instruments necessarily, but more likely how you are doing things, and thinking while writing and recording. Two artists can record the same song.... one will sound dated and ordinary while the next might be contemporary and fresh..... yet still the same exact song.
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Re: Music Production Sounds too Old?
2015/01/07 09:07:51
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SongCraft
Gid'day,
As the year comes to a close I have re-accessed my work, having contacts in the music biz and received feedback (catchy, melodic but a little old hat) and having posted my work on the CW Song forum for feedback I feel that most of the songs and instrumentals posted there are superb but 'old-hat' and also not to forget those great 'old' cover songs. (no offense intended), I do love all those old classics.
I guess most of the works posted in the CW Song-Forum are mostly from older age groups? (40+), I'm also 40+, but I don't want my songs to be labelled 'old-hat' don't get me wrong I love all the old stuff...Classic Orchestrations, Blues, Jazz, BBKing, Beatles, Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, Led Zep, Jeff Beck, Pink Floyd, Metallica, (too many more bands to list), right up to current new bands! Everything from Jazz, Rock, Pop Rock, Heavy Metal to Prog'House, Hip Hop, IDM and everything...
You realize that you stated that there is a very large market for (what you are told is) "old hat" in your second paragraph.
post edited by jmasno5 - 2015/01/07 09:44:33
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