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Its been boring checking into the famitracker and not really doing anything... Covering a song is a pain, soooo, MEHZ BACK! (I'm tring something new anyway.)
[quote=yucca70]Covering a song is a pain, soooo, MEHZ BACK! (I'm tring something new anyway.)[/quote]
And you dare to pass judgment on GlidingSoul without offering much help, too.
yucca70; I've said it to GlidingSoul & I'll say it to you... You need to improve yourself & the best way for you to do it is to cover something (no matter how inaccurate it may be). Or, if you're able to read music, why not try reading some actual music notation or guitar tabs & marking it down into the tracker? Even something as basic as The Mexican Hat Dance would do you some good.
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[quote=8BitItalianS]This is exactly why I said to cover a song, i see absolutely no improvement here.
It's better when somethings a pain that way you pick up new techniques instead of doing things [i]wrong.[/i][/quote]
I do not want to cover a song.
I want to have FUN with this. whether im [i]wrong[/i] or not.
I could cover a song. but its not worth my time, my dream isn't to be the best 8bit music maker ever, its to make games, video games NEED music. so I said why not start here. Even if I DO cover a song, it's not like im an instant pro. IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY?!?!?!
sorry if im a little harsh, My day sucks more than a than Atari 2600 game E.T.
RE: March Of the RobotsPosted: 2011-05-31 03:04 (Last Edited: 2011-05-31 03:28)
[quote=TechEmporium]
And you dare to pass judgment on GlidingSoul without offering much help, too.
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I know what a good song sounds like.
And I can try my best to improve a song.
But the whole reason I joined these forums, is to work on my own songs.
My life on this is the same thing...
I can't make a single song without getting some kind of comment saying I should cover a song.
How does that help the song I just made?
Not being mean here but it doesn't
I'm tired of the same criticism, maybe I just naturally Can't cover a song. im not one to go for an inaccurate cover. I will not publish a 70% accurate song.
Dude, he's just trying to help your composing. The tips he is offering is an easy way to make improvements, small or big. Flaming him for it is just low in my opinion.
[quote=yucca70]How does that help the song I just made?
Not being mean here but it doesn't
I'm tired of the same criticism, maybe I just naturally Can't cover a song. im not one to go for an inaccurate cover. I will not publish a 70% accurate song.[/quote]
You won't publish a cover that COULD BE %70 accurate, yet you'll publish a song that people will still comment on as needing drastic improvement (which will then prompt the masses to repeatedly suggest for you to try a cover).
I know you're not trying to be mean (& I understand that you also have private problems; we all do). I'm also not trying to be mean, but what excuse do you have to not try & improve yourself in any way that you can?
Of course; you can do whatever the hell you want. But note that people will always suggest things to improve it or criticize it somehow (I know this first hand; I don't take it as a personal attack). You should take this as incentive to learn more about music, instead of taking it as a personal attack. By the fact that we'd suggest a cover (or even transposition of an existing song,) we're only trying to guide you to a path where you'd improve on your existing skills by learning from others.
It's exactly like learning chemistry; it's one thing to have a periodic table & it's another to know how to use it properly. Better yet, it's like fishing; it's one thing to try & get someone to catch a fish for you & it's another to catch your own.
How will you catch your fish if you don't make the effort of learning to fish? How will you know the right amount of chemicals to use for a reaction if you don't know how to use a periodic table? How can you make decent music for a game if your compositions seems to garner more negative views than positive? It's all about teaching yourself & improving your own skills.
The choice is yours; do your own thing & take less effort to learn, or put forth the effort & become your own teacher.
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Man...we gotta get a music theory thread up in here somewhere.
One thing that does irk me about this thread's ftm is that you try to retrigger a note where nothing has changed. Like in frame 05 MMC5 Sq1. You have a D-4 at row 06 and another D-4 at row 0A. There needs to be some sort of change in the volume for that second D to sound out. Either change the volume string in instrument 06 to be "0 15", or add a note break, or use the Sxx command. Or even just use the volume column to fade out the sound (and don't forget to reset back to vol F for the second D).
[quote=yucca70]I truly mean not to flame.
A lot of stuff is happening today, most of it really bad.[/quote]
This isn't the place to let out your anger on other members of the forums who are giving what look to me like constructive advice to help you get better. If you think you can't react to criticism in a proper, socially acceptable manner (which you did not) then I encourage you to stay away until you get things sorted out in your life.
As far as covers are concerned, even if you don't necessarily want to make them, the fact that you "don't want to submit a 70% accurate song" seems a bit ridiculous to me. I would never claim any of my covers are even close to that level of accuracy (unless I made a conscious effort to make them so); that doesn't stop me making them. And if you still don't feel like doing some, then I suppose you could try and see it as a sort of homework, something you have to do in order to get better. At least try.
We as a community are not interested in listening to mediocre-quality tunes time after time, with no sign of improvement whatsoever. Even if your music is average - because you certainly dont have to post masterpieces to be appreciated here - the thing is, we need to see you have the will to get better, which is something at least I fail to detect in your case.
Bottom line: be nice, listen to the advice other members with more experience give you (for free, mind you), and try to follow it before you say you can't or don't want to.
And yeah, music theory would definitely be a plus for you as well. If someone wants to start a thread for it be my guest. I'll make sure jsr stickys it when he visits us next time (because for some reason mods can't do it... Ugh... -_-).
[quote=jrlepage]
And yeah, music theory would definitely be a plus for you as well. If someone wants to start a thread for it be my guest. I'll make sure jsr stickys it when he visits us next time (because for some reason mods can't do it... Ugh... -_-).[/quote]
But then we'd also have to consider all the pedagogy that deals with someone coming in from a chiptuning perspective :o
Along with teaching some effect techniques. AND the nuances of the NSF format.
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