The Homework Theory: Making Music Effortless 

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I don't know if this is a self-imposed limitation that I'm cognizant of, but I usually spend an hour on every song I make and finish it within that time, then move onto the next. I have a hard time when it comes to doing anything else.

I LOVE the u l t r a w i d e, this is probably one of my favourite channels on RU-vid, down to earth and inspiring, no bullshit, keep doing what you enjoy bro

IT depends on If you constrain yourself for Others or for yourself Some people never get free , they are trapped in boundry to Someone Else What happens today is that the creation of stereotype success , and also within the Idols of different Genre and the Focus on selling mindest in Connection to money sexuality drugs and Power AS an constrain , is causing a destruction of healthy detachment to free your own self . IT IS gering the thought If freedom but within a system Money based violence for freedom Boxing Other Sports , music and everything IS dictated by groups of interest is making your Chose a Side and extremist mindest about what is right and wrong WHO IS and who is Not WHO IS the enemy But to See an enemy you must becan enemy yourself If you Dont See an enemy you wont behave AS If Theres a Problem yourself . So i think ITS only right If your doing Something that is in Connection to what you do , and plan to get a certain result In Connection to the Intension of beeing free ITS Not possible with the History WE make The destruction of the Planet and animals IS reducing Options , so in the End everything must be free In This Case free means dead I dont think that to destroy everything IS free But in fact every dead existence IS free from Life If Life is Like This now , so purgatory includes the word purge , then i think free is the right explanation Free the own self , that would mean your self IS free after death I know that If you follow a plan to do and Finish Something that you Always find self in IT thats true , but This is only with people Made of a different mindest Most of the people create to get Money Theres Producers they kill Projects AS soon AS they think that This misic wont get Sold or enter Charts I dont think This way because of Something comes Out im interested how IT will BE in the end So ITS Not supporting stereotype creation A friend Said You Dont need to make music , AI can do IT much better , IT can create what No human can create The Person WHO said This IS hast His own past and now So im trying to understand IT ITS lost Mankind has the Option to Change everything and built a new way to live The system is a running in circles Situation repeating overcane over again with the Same powerful people with the Same mindest and the Same way to teach young human how to understand and behave If you read History you will find Out the exact Same Story Just in another Timeline Just different people But exact Same actions and reactions If you have the Same results Loving together or worst , then ITS stupid Not to Change IT ITS Just different nations but since 1000 years IS also Not different nations People IS starting Something Just because they Dont find themselves in everything right now right away But you can I do I Love to See everything IT Doesnt Matter WHO iam WHO i will BE This will BE created by itself and experienced itself when i start doing sth And If Theres people WHO IS Sharing and helping Then IT will BE Limited ON less Things and i can BE Maximum free Im free as Long AS i dont connect to human Why ? Because their needs will involve myself in their Ego plans And they Dont free me and themselves too

Not just the use of engaging images and graphics, but those quotes...so memorable and almost throwaway!

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totally agree. he's a really smart guy and his thoughts are worth listening to nonetheless - because at the end, if the core content is bad it doesnt matter if production is good. here everythings awesome (though it takes courage to sit through the whole video with my attention span ;-;)@@ralphashford9022

I have no clue what your talking about, but the camera work is incredible, I find that aspect of his content amazing and inspiring.

Spent a bit too much time on the edit for this one but glad it came across! Always love getting to push myself a bit more in that direction.

Hey, stup1d id1ot. Get off the internet. 😂

And I only cried twice!

I agree, visually stunning and absolutely beautiful music. They are pieces of art!

I can give you 11 reasons why and you won't believe #7 (reaction)

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Same happened to me 5 years ago with left hand, so no more guitar. Get it done on the keyboard now.

Sorry to interject but the comment is kinda stupid - you use the instruments because of their timbre. I'd rather hear a Chopin nocturne on a piano and not on a banjo.

@@playingmusiconmars Thank you so much for your learned input. Guess you showed me. If you don't understand how you can aim for a feeling or atmosphere, and then explore different instruments to create that feeling, then you must be looking at music and music creation through an entirely different lens, because all of the musicians I've discussed this with have understood what I meant immediately. Have the day you deserve, unwanted commenter.

@@daveemerson6549 I'm a musician too and I don't get it - like I said, you can't interchange timbre like that. So in that regard - I'm glad to have informed you. Life is a long journey of learning from people.

@@playingmusiconmars He's talking about writing music and you're talking about music that has already been written being played on the wrong instrument. It's only wrong because the piece was written for piano. If Chopin wrote a nocturne for banjo, playing it on banjo wouldn't be wrong. Also pieces can be rewritten and tweaked to work in a multitude of styles. This guy can totally write music evocative of metal on a synthesizer. The quote he shared was about using a different instrument to convey a same feeling. This would be a subjective thing. Two pieces with the same notes, but different instruments/arrangement could both sound "dark" and vice versa. He didn't say he's going to write the same way he used to but pretend a synthesizer is a guitar, which seems to be what you are implying with the Chopin banjo comment.

i have the same issue. i realized -- as i was typing up an idea to hold yourself more accountable without third party interaction -- that i need to be directing my comment to myself. so I'm going to try documenting my "assignments" somewhere I'll see it everyday (whiteboard) and if i don't meet my preset deadline, I'll mark it failed and leave it there for me to see everyday. i will add new assignments until i complete one, then erase it and the first failed assignment. this way i can't keep pushing off assignments because my failures will just keep piling up for me to see everyday. I'm kind of excited and kind of anxious about this.

Something that's worked for me is (if you can afford it) to literally pay someone to be accountable to. I use something called Boss As A Service (look it up!) where you pay $20/month to have a "boss" who messages you asking if your project is finished, why you're running behind schedule etc. Alternatively you can get a friend to do that for free

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@@alexmckenzie0 I would love to do the bosspart here xD

Yeah this is my same struggle with music too. Have five years worth of demos that I’ve either never finished, or finished but now hate. And no one has ever heard them other than me. I have gotten better over the years but my songwriting muscle isn’t as strong as I’d like it to be. I know that I have to get out of the demo stage and finally finish what I start!

I’ve never heard of game jams. How are they usually running?

@@1almostblue I did a project with a friend one summer where each day we'd send each other something we created. In my case, he'd prompt me with a theme for a song to write, and I'd prompt him with a dog to draw. Most productive summer ever. At some point we switched from daily works to weekly ones, which was probably a mistake because the project rapidly fell apart after that.

@@karennsj7491 There's jams all over the place, but most of them are on Itch. There's a page on Itch with a big calendar of all the jams.

Games are a stupid waste of time... learn to sing or play guitar or grow a carrot or fix something. Be useful, not useless.

When I've done "song a day" projects, they end up turning into a very similar timeline. "OK, kids are asleep, I'm exhausted, but I need something. I give myself 1-2 hours." It's amazing what you can make within those constraints, esp. on the days when you really "aren't feeling it."

@@JordanSeal The thing with the days when you "aren't feeling it" is that you always surpass your expectations.

Same here, except I give myself ten minutes to write, create, mix, master and finish a 10 minute song. I.e. it's 100% on-the-fly creation. Fun as hell, and SO MENTALLY SATISFYING. Best of all, when "done", I hit DELETE. That is the ULTIMATE liberation from pressure!!!

Who cares? Everyone is creative, you are not special.

@@kwimms oh, do free, nay, feel encouraged to tell me about your current creative projects. I'll be happy to check it out.

Go back to basics.! 😌

also dammit i knew I'd be told to love time constraints in this video

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Ayyyyyy thank you. It's a bit of a slog to get through but glad it comes across in the end! Outdoor scenes were done with an $11 amazon lav mic - used some body tape to tape it to the inside of my shirt, just below the collar line. One of these days I need to finally sit down and make a 'how I make my videos' course or something.

Figured I'd fulfill my destiny and complete the hipster aspect ratio trifecta with a video in 2.39:1 - tis the way of the stache.

hehehe awesome@@VenusTheory

4 minutes in, here’s a tip from a pacing standpoint, when highlighting examples in rapid succession typically things will resonate more if done in 3’s. Like when a did this, b did that, c did this. Reinforce, then continuation to next point. If you give 4,5,6,7 examples the pacing just gets muddied and the audience loses track of the initial point.

As for limitations, here's what I do: Each track is pre-set up. Track #1 has a drumkit where every white key is a kick and every black key is a snare. When I start a song, I pick a white key and a black key at random, and now these are the kicks and snares. And it's *immediate*, no poking around to test, just PICK ONE, and now it's commited. No do overs, no changing, no tweaking, no nothing. No matter how it sounds, this is now your snare and kick. Track #2 has upper half every white key is a closed hi-hat and every black key has a matching-y open hi hat. Lower half is random percussive stuff. One octave are all cowbells. Same rule as for track #1, pick something, go with it. No do-overs. Track #3 is my Korg Mono/Poly. This will be my bassline. No other synhs, ever, and never going beyond the sonic landscape that synth can do. Track #4 is my Roland Juno-60 Track #5 is my nord modular Track #6 is a "drumkit" where every key is a random drumloop, same rule as for track #1 and #2, pick something, go with it, no do-overs. Track #7 is my Syntecno TeeBee-303 Track #8 is my bass Track #9-16 is various random secondary synths (mostly crappy modules, some VST... again, use what has been set up on the channel before starting, no tweaking) Tracks above that is for recording voice loops and other stuff. I also have a custom made controller such that the cutoff of pretty much every synth in the room is along a row of knobs. I also have set of sliders that apply a "DJ mixer" to various submixes (i.e. going up = hipass, going down = lopass) There is also a partridge in a pear tree. And smoke and lasers, of course. It's fun as hell - stop by some day :)

To attest to my personal volition, I find myself flooded with creative ideas up to the point of decision paralysis almost every time I sit down to write. The idea of “shrinking down my sandbox” just shed light in the darkest corner of my creative mind. It’s time to set the limitations to be pushed the way I trust myself to do so. This is a new confidence garnered by this information.

Thanks man

I think that's the point. If it's something you HAVE to do, it's something you'll do often, and not just "whenever inspiration strikes." Maybe you could call it "Project Theory" or "Assignment Theory" instead, since a lot of people see homework as something someone *else* makes you do.

Thanks! Got some new lens filters for a client video shoot and decided to give them a bit of a workout - very pleased with the results!

@@VenusTheoryYou should be! Amazing work once again, and thanks for being a consistent source of musical inspiration for me! You have really refined the art of making videos as well as music, I don't think I have seen anyone on the platform do anything near what you do, both visually and in terms of thought-provoking content.