Music Producers got this backwards (do less, better)

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Based on the feedback I've received, producers and composers want to get better at arrangement. This makes total sense, as a well-crafted arrangement can deliver your ideas in the most effective way. But as with most things, we should probably start with the foundation before we start deciding where to put the pool table...
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@zsixtyfour Год назад

"Once we give ourselves permission to struggle, we can have the patience with ourselves that we need to truly develop an idea and take it to the next level" -- SO true, not only for creative pursuits, but for so much of life as a whole.

@ProdByPeterBeats Год назад

love when artists drop these little gems of advice.

@HOLLASOUNDS Год назад

I just Draw midi out of what I hear in My head, it's not difficult.

@iamasynthesizer Год назад

“Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.” - Miles Davis

@Batman-hb9dh Год назад

"Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties." -Chopin

@moreroids_morehemorrhoids 9 месяцев назад

Quite ironic considering his work

@sutusmihaly 12 дней назад

..simplicity is beauty ❤

@binarybotany3218 Год назад

Schooled painter here, if you put more and more paint on, the "white" of the prepared canvas doesn't shine through anymore, less paint is more "air" and results in a fresher picture. This is especially true for oils, which is a bit like "painting with stained glass".

@HOLLASOUNDS Год назад

If you mix all coloures you actually get a vertion of perple not brown. When I wanted to start making complex cinematic cords and melodys I just imagined where the fingers would be would be and that's what makes piano sound real.

@Underview 10 месяцев назад

In the same way a tattoo looks better if there isn't a bunch of other tattoos right next to it.

@JonathonJDog Год назад

"Do less, better" is the exact epiphany I had recently. I've been frustrating myself by throwing so much into a beat and having nothing sound good together, instead of honing in on every single aspect and giving it the attention it deserves.

@nobodyinterestingyou Год назад

I feel you! I was always pushing myself harder and harder ,because I felt that listening to what I did would be considered too ''stale''. This video helped me open my eyes to this weakness and what I must do, creatively, to overcome this.

@MistyMusicStudio Год назад

Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away & other Ghibli films ) can make your heart melt with like 3 well placed chords - proof that master composers don't need to shred to create a masterpiece. Fantastic piano playing in this vid btw!

@Bealzabub Год назад

It's so funny that I often forget that sometimes that I need to sit back and let ideas develop and evolve when it comes to my music writing even though I know that it's something that I actively actively doing my other artistic mediums like story writing.

@Resign1991 10 месяцев назад

whewn you said "when everything is moving all the time, nothing is moving" gave me chills. subscribed.

@Drew_Vernon Год назад

I feel that what melodies and notes the music *implies* is often just as important as the actual notes are there. How often have you listened to a song, and sung along to the melody, and just completely ad-libbed something else that fits with it? That's an implied melody... and that's where composition and arrangment gets really interesting for me.

@peanuthamper Год назад

more videos like this please!

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

More to come!

@robnewton3368 Месяц назад

I love the score to ‘Moon’ by Clint Mansell for this very reason. A simple recurring piano motif underscored with dissonant sound design. It conveyed very effectively and efficiently the underlying eerieness of what was unfolding.

@cohaagenup Год назад

That piano piece was fabulous. I could listen to it for hours, and most definitely will! Great video, I really like this new direction the channel is going for.

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thank you!

@patfinn2697 Год назад

Magnificent video. Your composition and playing backs it up. Thank you for saving me from watching yet another video about a synth I don’t need.

@marcmagras Год назад

This is why I listen to John Barry. Seemingly simplistic, but very moving emotional scores with melodies so memorable. His scores are what got me into composing since 2018. Thank you for this video.

@rene-pedersen-music Год назад

These videos of yours are a god-send for composers/music producers!

@malo-magic-blue Год назад

Wow! How great that I just found your wonderful channel! I´m a painting artist who is singing and just starting to work on my own songs again that I wrote as a teen long time ago. I can assure everyone that what you are saying in this video about composition in MUSIC is absolutely the same as I experienced in VISUAL art (and I´m a "real" painter on canvas - not using AI but human intelligence - lol). Composing a memorable painting is so much more than just applying rules. - I´m excited to learn as much as I can from you to make my (simple anyway) songs as strong as possible. I know it takes work and I love it! Thank you so much for your free lessons. I will remember you and give credit when I publish music in future. Best wishes from Austria!

@skyrimdavid Год назад

Genuinely needed to hear this at the perfect time. Just subscribed like yesterday and man your channel is a gem. Really appreciate the beauty and insight you share with us. It most definitely does not fall on deaf ears.

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Really appreciate that, and welcome! 🙏

@skyrimdavid Год назад

@@JamesonNathanJones absolutely! Please definitely keep up the fantastic work!

@seraphinvandegar4510 Год назад

I feel like you wrote the script specifically to address my current challenges. Just discovered your channel a few days ago and already one of my favourite! Great job on the content AND on the realization! Thank you!

@kaitlyn__L Месяц назад

Absolutely everything in life is pointing me to be more minimal in my music - something I’ve already come to terms with in my art when I realised and accepted most sketches look better “unfinished”. When I’m playing alone I can happily play a monophonic or duophonic melody, especially in a wind instrument. But when it comes time to record it… my maximalism kicks in. I guess I can’t willpower myself out of that - only through practice can it be overcome.

@naturligfunktion4232 Год назад

This is so true. I have started to listen to old songs on my hard drive and I notice that many of them have something strong, but it is hidden beneath a lot of crap. It took a long time to just have confidence to trust your ideas. It also took time to understand what was good and what was not. It is hard to describe, but you really need time to get to know your own music

@actualkevin 9 месяцев назад

I am so grateful that I have found a RU-vid channel with content that I am highly confident from my understanding for example of watching my son struggle to create his music career; is relevant and valuable to the viewer who is me.

@yvancharest9996 Год назад

The silence betwin the note are as important than the note itself

@actualkevin 9 месяцев назад

@JamesonNathanJames you are a real gem. Thanks for this live stream and for sharing the project. And 35 is YOUNG trust me. When I was 35 I could not have imagined how it would feel for a granddaughter to give me a new name. You have so much ahead!

@Raelthomasmusic 6 месяцев назад

I haven't watched more than a few seconds of this video, just yet. But I think you're absolutely correct regarding the thumbnail. I spent years trying to be as clever as I possibly could regarding arrangements and melodic progressions. Jamming as much feeling and emotion as I could into every little section of the piano roll. The thing is, when you do this, it just gets messy. No progression has the impact you want it to because you're not giving the song time to breath. You can't catch someone off guard or "hit them in feels" with a shift if the whole thing is wishy washy. Less is more. I'm also a semi-professional drummer and this is very much comparable. A nice fill is only impressive (to normal people) if it compliments the greater arrangement in an unexpected way. If the whole song is FILLS, FILLS, FILLS, any impact they might have had in isolation is completely lost. Ted talk over. I'll watch the video now. Great content, sir 🎉

@photographyguru2135 Год назад

Do less btter, make your initial idea so strong that people can't help but passionatly love and repeat it, and mix it together with the same passion! I love your insight man! Thank you for your wisdom!!!

@MrEMann Год назад

Possessing the instrumental skill of a well trained classical musician and the ear of an improviser is the ultimate goal, IMHO. I can imagine music that I am incapable of playing, which is the most frustrating thing in my life.

@RickyTinez Год назад

gah.. every one of your videos makes me get up. go to the studio. and start making music. Thank you!

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Ah thanks man! The feeling is mutual!

@TheFamousMockingbird 8 месяцев назад

Id love them to explain madlib. Ultimate producer who displays less is more in a genius way

@JosephEarly 11 месяцев назад

Why is it so hard to remember these things? I've written down the same kinds of notes so many times and always find myself realizing I've forgotten again. Incredibly helpful way of driving these aspects home, as usual

@OscarUnderdog Год назад

This really resonates with me - thanks for expressing these ideas so clearly! 🙏🏻

@ELLIOT8209 Год назад

Hey man, how are snare bombs made?

@in_10z 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for these wise words. I've seen/heard some super successful producers have incredibly complex sound design and arrangements. I've also the most ridiculously simple melodies and arrangements do just as well. Not sure there is a rule either way. I think you hit the nail on the head with emotion. If the song creates emotion, it will stick. Your track may be either simple or complex and not moving the crowd. So get to adding or trimming! There is no golden formula; however, when YOU find the formula that works for YOU....stick with it! Create the templates, tool boxes, and go-to sounds; and start churning em out!

@thepauloapo Год назад

Good to hear your words on creativity and dealing with the oceans of theory currently available. I find that you convey the ethos of putting it all to practice in an objetive way - a very much needed voice on youtube music creative discourse. Compliments on your videos.

@jabarcole 5 месяцев назад

I taught myself how to play music by listening to movie soundtracks, because I liked them, and how they highlighted moments in films, and made me remember them. I never learned theory, and when I tried to, it just took the fun out of playing. However, once I started doing covers of songs I liked, in styles way different from the originals, understanding some theory did become real to me. From all of that, I found the nerve to create original work, and I am still doing it. Your points about the trial and error of making music composition work, really hit home with me, because I've been doing, and will keep making music using that method. Its just been too rewarding and fulfilling not too. Entertainment in our world, music or otherwise, is so bent on result and spectacle, that I think we've lost respect for what artists go through to craft - not just create - things that are memorable to us. Its human ingenuity that makes that makes good art possible and even probable, and I think your channel is guiding us through that, in a clear, concise and very fundamental way. Thanks, much, sir.

@omeralsoma_ Год назад

Thank you for making this video ❤️

@Fritztafer Год назад

Fantastic

@tapeexperiments 4 месяца назад

Good Stuff!

@PapyPetitPois Год назад

Thank you 😊

@Jolper Год назад

Man, your videos are extremely helpful. Thank you for making them!

@Krumbukten420 Год назад

You are so great at givning an amateur like myself the confidence to trust the process and that my musical ideas are worth working on. Thank!

@moderncannibal9708 Год назад

Great episode!

@buxtonxp4997 Год назад

This is so indepth. Im just blown away

@ettiennelane9173 Год назад

Yes! Do less better! Well said. Couldn't agree more.

@konradhoroszko255 20 дней назад

Thanks!

@GeneticworlD Год назад

Love your videos man, thank you🤝

@chameleonedm Год назад

Man this was super profound, thank you and well done

@phtevenstevin4625 Год назад

Thank you for this video.

@MichaelAChang Год назад

Refreshing insights - subscribed.

@bide7603 Год назад

This is the content I’ve wanted for so long

@soundofnature939 Год назад

You are truly spot on everytime. I thank you again with all my heart

@gregwatkins5980 Год назад

These are great ideas, and exactly what I need right now. Thank you!

@YlowX7 Год назад

I love your content. It's what I needed all this time I've been making music.

@The_paradox_of_Youth Год назад

This spoke to me on many levels, and can honestly be applied to just about every facet of life. This is beautiful. And there's a certain magic to demonstrating the concept that you're speaking of by taking such a complex and nuanced subject and explaining it in a clear and concise way without decreasing the scope and weight of the subject matter. Respect 👊

@ambient.sanctum Год назад

So much agree with you - to master is to simplify. And that is not only for music, but a lot of areas in life.

@marco1941 Год назад

I totally agree with this!

@mashoy78 9 месяцев назад

Very well said! I agree 100%.

@prodrupeyy Год назад

Only just discovered your channel, really enjoying and benefitting from your content - thank you!

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thanks and welcome!

@TheLeftistCooks Год назад

Just discovered your channel. This is all tremendously helpful, clear and insightful. Thank you. - Neil

@Azalraku Год назад

Your wisdom is a real treasure. Thank you for sharing.

@fallprecauxionsmusic Год назад

well, that turned out really well. bravo!! & thank you, jameson!! gotta watch & hear again in order to attempt to comment in any useful way.

@ransbarger Год назад

This means a lot coming from someone who has mastered an instrument. Thank you.

@EnricoDeianamusic Год назад

Thank you so much! You gave me inspiration

@DanielHauser Год назад

6:45 - I love your playing here. Sounds like early Genesis.

@sebastianmuzeja6516 Год назад

You are a goldmine, thank you for sharing

@michelrivera7491 Год назад

Genuine and insightful thoughts you express there. First time I see one of your video ...Thank you for this passionate willingness of yours

@timothyreynolds6255 Месяц назад

I needed to hear this. Thanks. Also, your video style (tone, voice, etc.) is like Venus Theory. Thanks. I like the low-key, no fluff approach.

@jscj2066 Год назад

Another interesting and well thought out video! Thanks!

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

🙏🙏

@AndrewColyerMusic Год назад

Hey, Jameson, great job on this video, and Beautiful piano compositions! This is a great way on your channel here to Showcase what you are doing. Keep up the good work! 😀🎹🎵

@Banquet... Год назад

So glad I found this channel, really finding your videos useful and inspiring... and love your piano... man, that looks lovely!

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thank you!

@erkydi Год назад

well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@marcusnero9918 Год назад

Hey, JNJ! I've been listening to your music for years but just discovered your channel. This video taught me a lot and I'm pumped to dive into more of yours. Cheers!

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Great to hear, Marcus! Thank you 🙏

@jgvint 6 месяцев назад

Your insight is well appreciated if not fully agreed upon! There is something to be said of your compositional style as presented here... French AF in the best way

@michaelkonomos Год назад

+1 for limitations leading to creativity! Love this video. Love the whole series. I am getting SO much out of this. Thank you.

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thanks Michael! Glad you’re getting something out of them :)

@michaelkonomos Год назад

I might be rare, not sure, but I have NO musical training growing up and suddenly find myself learning in middle age. But with a real drive. Been listening all my life and now wanting to create and videos like this are just what I need. It helps me personally to learn things like this even while I am still learning chords and scales and all that - just like listening to grown ups talk helps kids even before they know how to spell.

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

@@michaelkonomos You’re not alone. It’s challenging to learn new skills when we’re older usually because our own egos won’t allow it. You’re self awareness and thoughtfulness are great assets, because we can’t learn what we think we already know.

@turntsnaco824 Год назад

Incredible video, loved the ambient music in the background as well.

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thank you!

@skooliganwtf5592 Год назад

You are the truth!

@bjornark Год назад

Awesome background music around the three minute mark there. Oh ... and the video is great as well. I think I agree with you, probably!

@andrew_nayes Год назад

Your reflections on composition are interesting, I'm happy that your channel have started to include more of composition and music theory.

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thanks Andrew 🙏

@tasteapiana Год назад

You resonate, Mr. Jones. I dig it. Only a sincere and lengthy struggle with oneself can bring about the wisdom you present in this video. Upon hearing your compositions herein it becomes obvious that you have slagged off many trendy concepts and approaches in order to get back to a music that can move a person, a listenable music that does not beg to be comprehended but felt, experienced. Rock on.

@clearsidemusic Год назад

Great advice here.

@Herfinnur Год назад

Lovely, lovely, lovely piano music

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thank you!

@MidlifeSynthesist Год назад

Loved this🤟🏻

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thanks man!

@eddfromearth Год назад

Very useful lessons 🙏

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@muralist_ Год назад

When I was in my music study years - in the early 2000's, I wrote all the music for my 'Symphonic gothic Metal Band' and while being at it, I went straight across al boundaries and general expectations for that genre. On purpose. Because I liked it and because I felt like mingling around it, just to see where it would lead to. It was also because I knew that the (very conservative metal) scene delivered those boundaries and because of that I liked the idea of stretching what was possible to the limits, meanwhile making my musicians having to push their techniques and virtuosity also to new levels. The main motivation however, was always to explore music. To figure out new things. To broaden horizons. Nowadays (20 years later) I still see the creative craftsmanship as a gift that deserves exploration and experimentation and I am still convinced that it should stay far away from restricted rules and paved roads. So much more fun!

@slimyelow Год назад

@7:30 is a beautiful piece. Especially that chord with the b natural in the bass plus the entire B section. - luv it

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thank you!

@ViolenDarkstalker Год назад

The Rhythmic Nature of Jazz.

@omeralsoma_ Год назад

Just what I need 😭

@synthphilosophy Год назад

Wow one can tell you spend endless hours to get those piano skills. Wonderful! I agree with what you're sharing here: there is a good reason I love my digitakt so much: it's the limitations that pushes you forward. For the album I'm currently working on, I have set rules for myself. I cannot use more than 4 tracks, with the possibility of a fifth for effects. Everything is live played and a song cannot take longer thant 10 minutes. I am so happy with the results I'm getting, that I believe I'm discovering my type of sound so much better while working under those limitations. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and lessons. ❤

@jonathanparham 9 месяцев назад

I'm ready for your new concert album

@RFmath_ Год назад

Yes man - 100% agree with you. I never even bothered to watch those videos for one very simple reason.. why would I make a song where one instrument does all that work? I'll add one caveat - when my piano roll does end up looking like that (because of a midi recording) - It's always with a ton of velocity changes so the right sounds pop out rhythmically.

@jeffreydery Год назад

Thank you so much for this video. It is packed with wisdom and that is a good thing because once one has absorbed all the music theory one can absorb, wisdom is needed to put that theory at work effectively. Once again, thank you. I needed some wisdom today.

@Arhidilius Год назад

Great video! I really appreciate honesty in your videos, no "this one simple trick will make your music genius" bullshit, only real thoughts on timeless questions. Btw if you're like to elaborate on term "musical idea", that would be great, bc after long search on internet I still can't grasp the meaning of it, scientific definitions just fly over my head. I think that one is tought for people without musical degree, such as myself. (sorry if english is bad)

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thank you! And no worries - I think I use the term “musical idea” because some people get bogged down if I use “phrase” or “melody.” A lot of my viewers are electronic musicians, so I try to make the terminology as genre-universal as possible. Sorry for the confusion!

@rodrigolaporte274 Год назад

Excellent!!! very cool video

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thanks Rodrigo!

@J.A.Seyforth Год назад

Great video treatise on creativity within constraints

@J.A.Seyforth Год назад

Hi Jameson, I'm gonna release some compositions soon on YT, I would be eternally grateful if you would give me some feedback on them when they drop. Any how great videos, keep the content coming! 😀

@cockysonuvaB Год назад

Great vids keep 'em comin'. new subscriber

@lameaim Год назад

Love the video. I’ve benefitted by doing similar things myself - refining an original idea down to simpler versions to allow for more layering and growth in the arrangement. Really helps me escape my own 4-bar loop traps with more consistency. Oh and I love your piano playing. Great way to show the concept in action with a familiar instrument. Hope to see/hear more of it in the channel.

@Dartagnan65 Год назад

I agree on the 'more piano examples'. Great playing J. Do you ever take those piano ideas into a daw/digital/synth form? Your synth stuff seems to be much more... experimental? (No offense, I go from "crazy random", to simple melodies.)

@domiloik Год назад

I just realized that i have some of your tracks in my personal playlist on spotify. Grounded is a great piece of music.congrats!

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Haha that’s awesome! Thanks!

@tzatziii Год назад

you are a boss, some of the best advice out there !

@JamesonNathanJones Год назад

Thanks Luka!

@owenhattton Год назад

You said it, simple, memorable, and has some charm to it is the key

@smhhms2000 10 месяцев назад

Awesome. I’d contrast great vs ordinary rather than pro vs amateur. But it doesn’t alter the point. ‘Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.’