I challenge you to make jazz out of classical riffs! Bebop Chopin ftw! Haha, just kidding, but I'd be curious to know your thoughts/reaction on the topic
@@superblondeDotOrg jazz is a very ambiguous term, I will give you that. However, I do think it would be cool to take some melodic lines from classical music, add swing to them, and reharmonize the chord changes.
@@superblondeDotOrg Seems pretty straightforward... there's probably tons of information you could find through an internet search engine to answer the question "what is jazz?" There are so many flavors of jazz to choose from, it would be an interesting challenge to see someone accept, to recontextualize motifs and passages of classical music within any style of jazz that the musician decides is appropriate.
Watching you experiment is very inspiring. You’re genuine energy and positivity is contagious and makes me want to explore and try things. I’d love to see more of these style of videos - taking your classical piano skills and trying to impose them on modern techniques
@@NahreSol Nice experiment. It would also be interesting to to hear an experiment with different loops derived from classical pieces. Many things if the fragment is short enough can fit into an electronic or EDM-ish style. Something that could be done is take short bits out of more than one composer, alter the pitch so they are in the same key and start layering the loops on top of each other with some fading out over time and new ones coming in. Also this could be done with polyrhythms worked out. Things far apart in original style, like Stravinsky and Chopin and could be fit together and yes, work marvelously together. These can be overlaid like sequencer patterns. Drum sounds are optional. Or you could start making by making a beat with pure drum programming. Then overlay these classical loops on top. Then leave it like that or at some points mute the drum beat in and out Notice also if you are using a grid to make beats if you throw certain parts of the kit, slightly off the grid, just a hair, very slightly, like on a snare or bass drum, either behind or ahead you can get a more human feel. The best drum programmers throw some strikes slightly off grid. Here's another concept. Take a great drum solo recording. Then play it back bit by bit. Take the first bit and play something on piano that fits with it perfectly. Then record that. Then go back to the drum solo, listen to the next couple of seconds and then record a piano part that fits. There will be no drums in the final result. So virtuoso drum solo gets translated to piano not by machine but by you using your own choices. The process is all done by this stop and start pausing but the finished result is continuity. Then you figure out how to play it in real time later It could be done with two piano tracks so you could overlap a little the piano tracks to get the rhythm right and then edit out the overlaps afterwards.
I'll be honest, I liked the output of the first day. It reminds me of a lot of experimental electronic and noise music. It's not to everyone's taste for sure, but I find the rejection of compositional norms in music like that quite refreshing sometimes.
Bruh, with how good Nahre is at playing the piano, she has infinite beat making potential. She just needs to watch a couple vids on how to make rap beats and lay down drum patterns and bam! She'll be producing top notch piano beats fr
@@NahreSol seriously😂 the way you started playing those smooth piano chords on top of the reversed section was beautiful!👌🏽 I can't wait for the day where you have it all figured out😌 keep at it!
I seriously hope this becomes a big thing. Exploring and recontextualising older music through a new music-making medium is such a cool way to bring the two together.
The overall sound reminded me of Squarepusher, one of my favorites because his arrangements, like your beats, doesn't necessarily emphasize every quarter note and lets phrases guide themselves (as you said "I'm just following the sampler") and uses a calm selection of timbres on many tracks, including a whole album of only six-string bass played almost like a classical guitar. Your beat music ended up sounding more like progressive house than hip-hop, but I think that's a cool place to end up. Thank you for sharing your process.
I thought of squarepusher too. I hope she's heard his music. But what she made was veering more towards autechre/ametsub/Thom Yorke with her natural melodic imrov bringing it to life
Nahre, have you ever consisdered going into film scoring? Some of Hollywood's best composers are ex very-accomplished pianists !! You have a lot of great music under you fingers and in your head. You could put it to use...
The world in which to do that would be overseas or indie films. The mainstream film music industry seems to be a pretty awful place to work and creatively speaking, usually suffers from having way too many cooks in the kitchen.
This was amazing! As a classical trained pianist also trying to get into electronic/beats/lofi etc this was an amazing example of how to go between and translate in a really creative way. Thanks for sharing your process - looking forward to more of these!
I've had some interesting results from accidentally assigning a drum patch to a musical part. I get beat phrases that I would never think of, which with a little tweaking can be quite inspiring ideas.
It’s interesting having you take the “pitch/melody” out of pieces of music and just distilling them into pure rhythm. It really shows you the key role that pitch/melody has in tying a piece or phrase together. It really seems to make it cohesive and not a jumbled mess of noise. It’s also worth noting that you distilling the pieces/phrases into pure rhythm and then building a beat on top of it really transforms it into something completely different when hearing it. The structure is similar but the outcome is different from the original. It’s like evolution. You can have two species which look completely different but the DNA is similar.
It sounds freaking dope. Please do more! For extra drama, I'd recommend studying how hardcore dancefloor-based artists (e.g. Floating Points) build layers and orchestrate a drop.
I love how enthusiastically you take the plunge into something new and just embrace all the weirdness and confusion, and even try again the next day after "failing"! It's really inspiring to watch someone so skilled go and struggle in some other aspect of music, as well as the respect and appreciation for people who make music in very different ways that you normally do. Not to mention make some genuinely cool and interesting sounds! Basically I love everything about this, hope to see more
As a drummer with an ear and love for melody this is exactly how I've always listen to music and write. I write melodies that are also rhythmically catchy and drum line that support and highlight the hooks in the melodies.
Because of you I'm listening to new classical music I've never heard before, and also remembering the crazy names they have, thank you! I like classical music, but sometimes it's overwhelming to find something new to listen to.
most people don't know how deep and diverse classical music can be, it's just mostly known as "relaxing" or "old" music that the majority of people don't listen to
Someone once asked me for some classical music to listen to. I gave him a copy of Rachmaninovs preludes. He put the CD on as he lay down to relax - I think he had a bit of a shock! I hope it was a bit of an eye opener.... lol
Drives me up the wall when people say they like classical music because "it's so relaxing". That's the opposite of what music should do, even in something like a Brahms or Beethoven adagio; if you want to relax, take a valium.
Ms. Sol, when you dropped some of the rhythmic beats for clarity early in your project you turned them into ghost notes. The listener still hears them even though they aren't played. It's an advanced drum technique that you discovered organically!
I like these "unlocks". Your experimentation with music, built on years and years of classical music skills development is fascinating. This is how original music and even genres get invented :)
2:56 sounds like the battle cries of printers and other machines charging against humanity... Strange for sure but cool in its own way Really a great experiment and a way to put all your talent and take it to unexpected territory. Great job!!
I never cease to be amazed by the paths you take in the quest for new sonorities. From chaotic beginnings came something really rather beautiful. Keep on plunging!
Great stuff, I hope we get to see more of these ideas! I tried playing this video at 75% speed, it does make the rhythm closer to a comfortable beat for me.
Nice to see someone with a classical background take a stab at making beats. Had a sort of jungle, drum n bass feel. I found that sometimes repeating a single measure 4 times of an 8 measure progression could be effective when with a rest right before the "drop" the drop being the full 8 measure progression. Anyway Chopin is delicious no matter how you slice it.
I think you were definetly onto something with the Chopin etude when you removed a few notes that first measure. That sounded great but I think the rhythm got lost in the following measure. Maybe just loop that first measure. I also really liked the reversed mephisto waltz at 5:18 - 5:20, those 2 seconds are incredible!
this was absolutely incredible, a fantastic idea! I hope you continue with this idea & upload more videos like this. Maybe ask Andrew Huang to help or do a collab. His insights into production & MIDI could really help.
I would constrain the notes to a narrower pitch range, either clipping, mirroring or folding inwards so that it doesn't trigger that many different samples. Liked the result anyway.
This is soooooo fascinating and inspiring to experiment!! I think I’m often afraid of failure and not being good at something from the beginning, especially with music, but you reminded me that it’s fun to go outside of the box! 💕
Yes, I agree @RickBeato. Very cool and good to see NI Battery being used for this as I enjoy working with this drum machine. I'm going to try it with some Bach. Thanks so much for the ideas.
Awesome to see the youngsters experimenting. Taping your fingers on a table top is enough to create a beat. Doing the same through a midi keyboard gives the rhythm separation of sounds. Remapping the sampled sounds really does give you a lot more control over what comes out. The possibilities are endless when experimenting. A long time musician with analogue and digital experience, I've only just discovered sampling and can see the potential. Great work Nahre Sol.
I'm glad there are so many positive comments. And of course the occasional "hey, I have a piano too!" Speaking of history, wow. In the few years I've been watching your channel, I feel like you've done so many interesting things, and all these experiments add up. I always enjoy getting to see how professionals think, but I also see, for instance, you've grown so much in terms of ability in the vast field of electronic music. I also liked the early videos, which have the vibe of someone who's boss in classical technique and repertoire, helping us understand classical music on a deeper level, with playful electronic ventures that happen to sound real good. But now... your facility with the electronics is moving beyond what would be accessible to a lot of classical musicians. There are many who dabble in both, but few people who can master both classical technique and modern electronic music instrumentation. You will be one of the few who do. And yet, to my eye your true genius does not lie in either of these groundings, but something else that shines when you play, something I don't really understand or have words for, but jumps out at me now and then. And such a nice person on top of all the talent. Which is why I always look forward to your videos. Thanks so very much.
I like how you're being vulnerable and just having some fun on camera, it comes across very genuine and interesting. Keep exploring, music is most awesome when you're outside your usual territory!
This felt like top notch video game music. Like, the kind that gives you a distinct feeling but that doesn't get annoying if you listen to it for long stretches of time
So many amazing textures and colors!! It was bass-y and twinkly and everything wonderful AHHHHH! I wish I could adequately describe this-- this is phenomenal Nahre!
Very cool! I do these kinds of experiments myself very often. Trial and error of unusual production approaches - just to see what happens. Your result reminded me A LOT of 90s UK Drum 'n' Bass music, the softer and more chilled variations of that style. I am sure the style had a particular name back then, but I forgot it.
