Hi! I make videos about music despite having below average musical skills.
In a space saturated with incredible talent and musicianship beyond belief, I think there's something to be said for those of us with no natural talent. No innate disposition if you will, but with tremendous passion to still create music.
When it comes to RU-vid and social media overall, I can sometimes feel like we have lost a certain.. soul, perhaps? That pure dedicated passion for music, with no regard for likes or views.
On this channel I will release my own original music, as well as share and document the process of making music, writing songs and dealing with the emotional struggle of constantly feeling like I don't deserve to call myself a musician.
Definitely, your are not the only person in the world paralyzed by your fears of not being good enough. Amazing video, I needed so much to hear something like that and empty my drawer of unfinished projects. Subbed. Wish you all the subscribers you deserve, great content, mate.
Hi Dektri! Thank you so much. I truly appreciate that. And right back at you. I took a look at your channel and I really like your guitar playing. Great work!
I try to be open minded about music. I understand the appeal that some like myself would find the Hungarian minor scale fascinating. It is rich with emotions and mystery. Thank you for sharing. Subscribed.
Thank you for your comment! And for watching. Being open minded about music makes life and creativity so much more enjoyable, interesting and enriching if you ask me. Have a wonderful day!
Sure does! The potential is amazing. Haha, "but in a good way." Are there no good scenes in Twilight?! I think the first movie at least has some nice pacific northwestian atmosphere to enjoy! But yeah, that's pretty much it I guess.
@@heitstrengningmusic Lots of people like to hate on Twilight and I get it because the writing is not great but I honestly enjoyed the first one, especially the visual shots of the forests and the creepy soundtrack
Ah, yes, your sequence takes me back.. back to memories of my.. long, long, well, very long ago.. cousin Vlad.. he used to gaze at the.. yes, wine, red wine, very red wine, in his glass, before taking long, long sips.. 🙂
Sly & The Family Stones - Everyday People is only one chord. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax, Two Tribes and Welcome To the Pleasuredome are all just E.
@@heitstrengningmusic The Frankie tunes actually might cheat a little and have either bridges or intros that veer off E, but it's amazing what they can do with 90% of the song in one chord. And they turned them into huge hits.
Hello there! Thank you so much for watching, and for the kind words! I hope you'll still be here for the release, it's about halfway completed, but most songs are (almost) written. Have a wonderful day!
@@heitstrengningmusic btw, I like how you made a list of features describing the music you were going to write; well, maybe it's a common practice, but the way you did it - I literally recognized myself, because I would do that for my visual art. I find it fascinating - describing something that is not brought to this world yet
@@8w6good8 I don't know if it's common actually. We discussed this a little on the Discord recently, as I was talking about a song idea I had and how I had the whole song in my head, and what I wanted all the different sections to be like, but I didn't have anything written yet. I got the impression there that this wasn't very common, at least among them. But I love that. I love how everyone's process is so different. So, I'm with you completely. It's very fascinating. I have a very clear picture of what I want to bring into this world usually, and the challenge is to get it as close as possible. Which is hard! Where can I see some of your visual art btw?
Dude, randomly came across the channel (algorithm is working). Two thoughts for your consideration. 1. No one is doing philosophy of music - can you make something graat out that those two talents (music and philosophy)? 2. You can chill on the video effects. Rick Beato, Marty Swartz and many other great music RU-vidrs add slim to none effects. Find an interesting niche, develop interesting content, present it with good quality audio and video sans effects, and they will come. Advice from a non RU-vidr - but i am a geezer and a music fiend. So maybe some cred. 😀
Hi John! Thank you for your thoughts! I appreciate the input and that you took the time to share your thoughts. I would assume most RU-vid viewers are non RU-vidrs anyway so there's definitely cred in your position as that, and as a music fiend haha. I'd like to think I've come some ways since this video, and I've been working on the things you've mentioned. The biggest struggle is by far having enough time between work and family to put out enough quality videos. I hope your day is going great, and it's always wonderful to see the RU-vid algorithm do its thing (when it works)!
This was excellent! First.....you're just damn good at editing and storytelling and building a narrative and whatnot. But also there's a self awareness to what you're doing that makes it compelling....like I'm in on it all. And yes, the thing u kept playing was indeed catchy and cool. The final bar...with that low bass note, THAT is what sold it for me, personally. Just subbed. :)
Thank you so much for this! Finding enough time between work and family to keep making videos can be so hard. Comments like these give so much energy to keep going. And I'm pretty sure I'm speaking for all small RU-vidrs. Have an awesome day!
you could also just think of it as a minor scale with altered 7 to sharp 7 and just use sharp 4 (flat 5) instead of 4. IOW, just an alteration of the minor scale instead of calling it a new scale. But ok. It's also just one note different than harmonic minor so you could also think of it that way. Harmonic minor but change 4 to flat 5. That's probably easier than making 2 alterations to the minor scale. The flat 5 and minor 6 give it a very unusual sound with those two half steps in a row. Something to toy around with for sure. The flat 5 will sound scary or unsettling with the minor 3rd and shuffling that b5, to 5 to 6 and so on. Then build your 7 chords from those notes and off you go!!!! Horror soundtrack writes itself!
@@heitstrengningmusic Well, for me, I don't plan to play with others so I don't need total scale mastery. I don't need duplicate names, either. So, I try to not memorize too much. Like maybe I'm weird but since the notes are identical, why call C major scale an A minor scale just because the chords are Am, Em and Dm? I mean, it's all the same notes. So why memorize 14 modes when you only need 7? That's my thought. Thanks for the vid though. It definitely gave me a reminder of how to get a vibe and something cool by restricting yourself to a scale type or mode etc. Cool stuff!!
LOL. guilty!! Glad I’m not the only one. I have thousands upon thousands of recorded ideas. Many of which are generic crap, but some quite good. I have 0 completed songs. Zero! 30 plus years of it. But hey, want to have a jam? I’m the guy who will write the riffs, melodies, easily 10 per night. But it’s insane. Drives me nuts. Big problem for me is I hate writing lyrics, I’m no good at it, and I just don’t understand engineering. Everything sounds like amateur shite. But I know people who have written one song in their life and at parties out it comes and everyone swoons. Sigh!
I totally get it. Those are different skill sets, and being good at one doesn't mean it doesn't take conscious effort to get good at the other as well. What about writing instrumental music? Or go online and look for people to help you with the lyrics part? I'm sure there are tons of song/lyricwriters out there looking for someone to write them music for example.
The song was great, but you needed THREE songs to better showcase the scale. You have a slow, moody piece. How about something more romantic? And then something upbeat and a little twisted? I know it's more work, but it would work to show the expressive range of the scale.
I agree that three songs would be even better! But like you say, the amount of work it would take would be too much at the moment. I struggle to put out videos as it is, and I'm trying to write an album. But thank you for the nice words! I do however have another video on this scale if you're interested in more. It's called This Otherwordly Scale is Perfect for Eerie Heaviness (super catchy title, I know).
Hello there! Thanks for the comment. What part of the video is blowing your mind? I'm always super curious to hear about other perspectives on these things.
You so hit the nail on the head. I equate recording a new riff or idea to throwing another dirty dish in the sink. Eventually it becomes overwhelming and you don't want to deal with it. I am currently writing a concept album dedicated to the love of my life, my wife Joanna. She passed away well over a year ago. I have only now, ofter many months of recording ideas, completed a song. I already knew this (what you saidl), but hearing it brings it home. I appreciate this video. Sometimes we just need to hear the obvious. I need to start finishing.
I am so sorry for your loss. But what a wonderful way to honor her. And thank you for taking the time to write this comment, and for sharing. The way you put it about putting another dirty dish in the sink is brilliant. I hope your day is going well!
Excellent channel sir, came at a perfect time for me, love the film quality too, cheers and thanks for the info and drive, good luck with your music, good luck to us all… onward from Birkenhead, UK
Thank you kindly for the awesome comment! Birkenhead? That's Merseyside, right? Hope you're having a good evening, and absolutely, good luck to us all! We're all in this together after all.
Always some great wisdom on your channel. Personally something I sometimes struggle with is feeling "lost" inside my own song, when it becomes too complex and I feel anything I will add or change will be a huge endeavour.
I can relate to this! It's a great point you bring up actually, because if you don't make "copy paste" music, and things progress more linearly, and are written that way, it can be a true challenge to make edits or change parts around. When every idea is based on what happened just before. I have some challenges like that on my album I'm working on. And thanks for the nice comment! Always good to see you here!
@@heitstrengningmusic Dragon Ball Z yes! I tried to find out which song it reminded me of, the more fitting one I was able to find is called ''The Strongest Guy in this World'' , starting around 0:20. The eerie vibe, while being an instrumental background music brought back the memory x)
I took a year off playing guitar and writing music. I had nearly 100 demos from over the years that were either nearly finished or finished but I never released anything. The part where you said about being good at starting songs but not finishing them really struck me. You described exactly how I feel. I just started revisiting my music after a year and I think it’s time to release something. Thanks again!!
I love that you are beginning to revisit your music again after a year! For me, it's very helpful to take notes and organize the things I'm working on at the moment, to not get overwhelmed by all ideas and options I have accumulated. Thank you for the very nice comment, and it's good to hear someone else can relate as well. Best of luck with releasing the music! I would love to hear it!
@@DJH3ARTL3SS I promised that too. It was one of my new year's resolutions. Almost half of the year is gone, but I have faith I'll finish one of my ideas by the end of the year.
this is so true. Had 20+ pretty good "unfinished" songs. . . finally decided that's it. I got to finish some. finished one. It was like becoming a mad scientist . . .but DAMN that felt GOOD when I was finally done and sent it to Mastering. What came back - felt and sounded so great and satisfying. Now I need to go back and finish more songs!
"I love writing, but I hate recording and mixing". Oh man that's me to a tee. Something that's helped me out a little bit is writing stuff that's more manageable for me as one person doing everything. The problem I'd often run into is that I'd finish writing something and then I'd think "Fuck I have to record and mix all those parts". and sometimes there would be parts I'd have to practice before I could even start recording anything. Now I think my output is a lot better when I come up with things where I feel at the end "yeah that's doable" and I can more evenly distribute my energy across the whole process instead of getting stuck in the hole of guitar take no 334 on verse 3 haha. btw 0:22 really made me laugh :p
Extremely relatable, to say the least! I'm glad someone enjoyed it! Haha. I often wonder if any of my attempts at being funny are ever noticed/appreciated!
I finally said the heck with it and use ez mix and ez drummer. It handles the tones and mixing and mastering. For an aspiring pro maybe not good enough but for a hobbyist or demos I think it works well. It also got rid of options paralysis. I know which tools I'll use. Sadly there is no ez practice and the recording part is still a pain.
@@JD-vj4go I agree! It works great for hobbyist, and relinquishing control of so many parameters can ease some of the stress in a way. As you say, get rid of option paralysis.
Great video, I 100% know the feeling. If you find the process of recording and executing so “painful” did you ever considered going to a studio or working with a recording engineer that works with you during that process and frees you from that weight? Maybe that would allow you to focus more on less technical aspects!
Thank you. Always good to hear I'm not the only one. I have but there aren't any where I live haha. And also, I really like working alone in that sense, in the comforts of my own space, and I like the feeling of having time to try things if I think of something. I think the added pressure of working in a studio would be hard for me. But, I am growing more and more interested in the idea. I am curious to hear the difference in the end result as well, for sure. I am definitely someone who would be completely happy with just writing songs, and outsource ALL the recording if I could.
