It's not Minimal, it's not Trance: The wrongly beamed brass

soylent.green · Post by **soylent.green** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:57 am

<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.konglomer.at/Topics/musik/Ho ... .mp3"><img src="/forums/images/listen_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" Song"> Song</a> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Genre: Some kind of "House" ???? <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Uses: Pulsar Mixer Modular STS4000 JV1080 copyright © 2006 soylent.green _____________________________________ Hi y'all at planetz,

though I feel that there are tendencies toward minimalistic or ambient like tracks on planetz recently I dare to post this one.

This time I would be glad to receive more feedback dear planetz'ies. Help me to improve. Don't miss the chance and even tell me if this stuff is kind a nonrelevant for you. Thanx...

Best regards,
Peter

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:20 am

hard to comment.. it's what it is.. sort of a style of its own. The harmony is kind of weak, I'd beef it up a bit more. Also, I doubt the brass-ish sound is a modern thing to do. It's not exactly trance or house, but it'll stand better as a piece of music with better harmony. Because it's got a pseudo progression that's sort of there, but not robust enough.

[ This Message was edited by: kensuguro on 2006-01-14 01:21 ]

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:29 am

Well, it reminded me of some of New Order's instrumental tracks from the 80's. It's definitely a rather retro sound you've got going on there. I have to agree with Kensuguro though that the melodies/harmonies need work. The seem a bit random and the various instruments don't work too wel together.
One way to work on this is to try and learn the basics of music theory: scales, chords, intervals.

soylent.green · Post by **soylent.green** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:50 pm

One way to work on this is to try and learn the basics of music theory: scales, chords, intervals.

Is it that bad? Completly dissonant?
Hm, I sort of know the very basics of music theory, but I not to advanced. To be honest I never learned to play a real instrumnent. All things I know about music I thought myself...
However, can you point me to some web resource where I can brush up my theoretical background.

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:42 am

hehe, i wouldn't say completely dissonant.

It's just that there doesn't seem to to be realy a consistant melody or chord structure in the track.
I find it hard to comment on how to fix it because my kowledge of music theory is limited at best. But i have a musical ear so i can hear when something is right or not.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:45 am

well, Ken and King probably refer to the 'pseudo brass section riff' that starts and then seems to be left hanging in the middle of nowhere.
I actually like the idea and the 'sketch' of the track - regarding melody it just asks for vocals - the space is there and it's worth the effort to elaborate.

Imho to write a catching solo melody is fairly demanding in this context, a voice would get along with much 'less effort'.
The brass sound could be anything from a 'true' warm and punchy section to a synth riff, possibly even guitar would work

cheers, Tom