Welcome to my channel, a place dedicated to exploring the intersections of music, philosophy, design, software, and aesthetics. Here, I dive into the novel and intriguing aspects of composition, visual aesthetics, design-oriented disciplines and plenty other things besides.
I am an active composer with a background in classical composition as well as many other kinds of music too. I also have a product design background, having worked on projects for Microsoft, PlayStation and Ubuntu in the past. I'm currently the VP of Product at Muse, a company that runs a variety of music services, including the open source tools: Audacity and MuseScore.
Not a big fan of the Jeff Buckley version - I consider it responsible for all of the bad covers. I get that I'm the minority here, but it's a misstep in an otherwise respectable catalog. On the other hand, the John Cale version is fantastic. It actually changed the way Cohen played it.
It's weird how the suicide video has ruined your past, present and future output for me. Everything has a bad taste in my mouth as im constantly reminded of how okay you would be with the complete and utter death of online free speech because muh dead kids. Genuinely makes me physically ill, absolutely irredeemable
I know you only gave it a moment, but I hate the heavy compression so much. Just turn down the volume, EQ in some space so the voice doesn't clash. Instead the compression is so intense it just sounds someone is messing with the volume knob. You can hear that shit on commercial radio too and it drives me nuts.
The nerve of that guy ripping you off and insulting your intelligence like that, I mean I'm not even a musician (can only play stuff like Hot Cross Buns) and I heard the difference
Great video and fantastically well researched. The naysayers on notation are, frankly, either a bit dim or they rush to conclusions. As you demonstrate, no other system comes anywhere near the usefulness of standard notation. The contemporary alternative advocates on TED etc are somewhat embarrassingly inept. Of course standard notation has its annoyances and things can certainly be improved, but essentially no-one has ever even hinted of anything better.
"Thanks for making everyone else up their game" Second that. Dorico is doing a great job with a very difficult task, and with Finale recently bowing out, it feels like the start of a new day for computer engraving.
I've always wondered how Musescore managed to make this AMAZING music software is completely FREE, now I'm even more surprised that it's free, considering how much work has gone into it! I greatly appreciate all that you and your team have done! Please keep up the good work!
while i don't remember the exact details of my musical upbringing, on account of the fact that remembering much of anything from before the age of 6 is an utter nightmare impossibility, i do appreciate my parents and especially my father (who has been a musician for most of his life) for making music such a large part of my life. when i was around 8 or 9 i was playing with my siblings, and our lego figures had decided to start a band, and while i dont remember if i asked him to set it up for me or if he suggested i do it, i ended up making some songs out of loops and hand drawn chords in garageband for our little lego band, along with some... interesting lyrics, let's just say. my life would be far less interesting if i hadnt been exposed to a variety of music from a young age, and when i do have kids someday, i absolutely plan on giving them a balanced diet of different kinds of music. partly just to see what happens when you make a 3 month old listen to denpa
i had to use sibelius for my GCSE music coursework and i'm SO happy that i never had to use barely any of the overwhelming features it possesses. But even still, for the ones that i did have to use, and despite the fact i got a 9 in that GCSE, i still couldn't give a concise, basic tutorial on how to use it
the leonard cohen version will always be the best to me. The raw emotion and sharp emphasis on the words close to the buildup fits the song better than the jeff buckley song, and the problem is that the covers model their sound based on the softer sound of the jeff buckley version rather than the cohen one
"concert halls seem strange to the uninitiated..... however to some, especially those from non-white, non-middle-class backgrounds, these spaces feel cold and unwelcoming". What an incredibly odd and unsubstantiated comment to include. Is this really true? and why do _'they'_ feel this? Is is this an extrapolation of outcomes when reviewing something like participation in the field, and in audiences? Is it even a bad thing that some groups are 'under-represented'? I go to my local Jazz festival every year and there is a clear disproportionality in both audience members and performers when looking at various identity groups, and I wouldn't necessarily change this, so long as the process is fair and music is of the best quality - which it is mostly! Different groups will never participate in every aspect of human activity, at every level, at the same rate. We need to go through the "5 whys" at a very minimum when viewing these things. Otherwise, great video as always! :)
I also think people who play what i'm going to call "zombie guitar" really neglect the strumming hand. Not only they always play the same basic strummings, but they never accent at all. You can do wonders if you just give different rhytms or accent the lower or higher parts of the chord depending on what you need for the song.
12:03 as someone who spent two years composing drumline cadences in Musescore 3, i can corroborate that i didn't see that menu until you pointed it out. (btw please add a MDL version for Musescore 4 pretty please)
Im just thinking about the similarities between the new Linkin Park debut single and this song. The refrain somehow reminds me of this abysmal eurovision song 😂
25:24 I'm a Gregorian Chant cantor, polyphonic singer, and I trained in competitive chess for several years when I was young. Really great video. And yes, clefs, even in square notation, are one of the great satans of music notation 😂
Sticking to open chords is like learning to write the letters of the alphabet and calling yourself an author. The fact the 37 songs can be played with G, C and D isn't actually an endorsement of those songs.
This is a genius of comedy. I laughed so hard I crashed. Wouldn't be so funny if I hadn't been through the same hell, only to return to ||: crash yet again... and again... and again :||
You spoke about how teachers tend to teach these zombie chords to beginners. What do you think would be a fitter alternative? Asking as a music teacher. Thanks!
Thats why ive always stayed clear of "beginner version" guitar tutorials, because ive always felt like whats the point if your subtracting from the art
I was going to say something about using Hey Ya as example of modern songs when its already over 2 decades old but then I saw this video is from 2017 which makes it not as bad (its still pretty old for that time)
