When I was about 18 I used to make weird MIDIs for fun. I tended to focus on chords and rhythms and avoid melody altogether. Yeah, I really sucked. I had fun with it, and I used it to test some things musically and learn a bit. I'm the opposite of a prodigy. I'm very slow musically, and I needed every little thing explained to me before I understood it. I figured out nothing on my own. The only reason I learned how to use Noteworthy and a few other MIDI sound altering programs is my brother taught me. I tend to be really bad at learning things. When I hit a bind, I might struggle to figure it out. Then if I succeed I'm so exhausted and need a break. My brother deals with problems and just keeps going. He wasn't very creative musically and mostly focused on playing back songs perfectly. I'm just bursting with creativity and ideas, though.
I recently opened up Noteworthy and found a file I created for some internet contact girl I don't even remember. It was made around 2015-2016. It's meant to be some kind of pretty chip tune ballad. It's actually pretty good, and something I can be proud of that actually makes use of melody. I felt like 2 changes should be made. I tried a simple take at it, and it brought up that classic ABC problem dilemma. You notice A is a problem, so you try to remove it and B pops up. Then you try to hold down A and B and then C pops up. I'm not sure how to get a MIDI into a quick and easy share on the internet.
Ex Machina? Are you an Advance Wars player?
Interesting. I know a lot of theory, used to play a lot of instruments, basically just did thirds in D on the keys, and edited.
I don't really play videogames, but wouldn't mind find something to get into. Ff7 is classic
I haven't been doing a lot of game playing in the past decade. There was a time I got into intense, hyper-fast Dr. Mario playing. It pushes your brain to the limits of its ability to process information. One mistake starts a cascade of mistakes. By the time your brain processes that you've made a mistake, you usually end up making even more mistakes, and it's just a big disaster.
Advance Wars went through a few titles initially. Now I think there are modern updates on the Switch or whatever. The third one was called Dual Strike and featured an old George Soros-esque villain that had an energy chair keeping him alive. His super power was called Ex Machina. It caused serious damage to units in a 13 tile area and left them paralyzed for a turn. The chair was draining energy from the planet itself and causing the plant life to die out and creating desserts everywhere. It's totally the kind of thing elite Jews would do.
As far as music goes, I find everything comes down to musical intuition. It's better to have all musical intuition and no formal music theory at all than to have all theory and no intuition. Your mind should be telling you to play or not play notes or chords or whatever. Through continual playing and development, you can go from not having this to having it. Technically, though, a lot of these no music theory musicians have their own personal understanding of music that could actually be translated into formal music theory. They'll be saying stuff like, "That thing that happens when you do like this." From what I've heard, the Beatles figured out secondary dominants in an experiential manner without knowing what a dominant chord is or any formal concepts related to that.
I was thinking about how I once learned a chord that is a bass note with the minor 7th, 9, 11, and 13, and then I tried to figure out where I could put this chord. I concluded that 5th position was best. Now I'm laughing at it like this is a dominant chord with extensions on it, and I figured out you can put a dominant chord in 5th position.
I like a bit of both feel and theory. Sometimes simple sometimes complex
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