Summary
- Summary
- creating 74 way
- THREE WAYS TO START
- CATALOG OF ATTRIBUTES
- AVOIDANCE LIST
- ACTIVE LISTENING
- LISTENING TO MUSIC YOU HATE
- MISE EN PLACE
- ARBITRARY CONSTRAINTS
- “WRITE DRUNK; EDIT SOBER”
- Choosing a Tempo
- One Part at a Time
- Different Tools
- Presets as Starting Points
- The Tyranny of the Defaul
- Simple Sounds
- Extended Techniques
- Goal-less Exploration
- Procrastination and Timeboxing
- Collaboration
- Thinking Like an Amateur
- Scraps and Sketches
- Problem-Solving as Distraction
- Personal Workflow
- Originality vs. Quality
- Process vs. Product
- On Work
- Breadth Before Depth
- Foreground, Middle Ground, and Background
- Fuzzy Boundaries
- Creating Variation 1: Mutation of Clones
- Creating Variation 2: Mutation Over Generations
- Creating Variation 3: Note Transformations
- Implied Rhythm in Short Loops
- Asynchronous or Polyrhythmic Loops
- Misusing Rhythmic Tools
- 3+3+2 Rhythm
- Programming Beats 1: On Looseness
- Programming Beat 2:Linear Drumming
- Programming Beats 3: Ghost Notes
- Programming Beats 4: Top, Bottom, Left, Right
- Bass Lines and Kick Drums as a Single Composite
- Drums to Pitches and Vice Versa
- Tuning Everything
- Silence and Noise
- Sampling the Old-Fashioned Way
- Creating Melodies 1: Contour
- Creating Melodies 2: Using Motives
- Multiple Simultaneous Melodies
- Linear Rhythm in Melodies
- Sound-Color Melody
- The Rhythm of Lyrics
- Creating Harmony 1: The Basics
- Creating Harmony 2: Beyond Triads
- Voice Leading and Inversions
- Parallel Harmony
- Harmonic Rhythm
- Repetition and Insistence
- The Rhythm of Automation
- Humanizing With Automation Envelopes
- Maximal Density
- Deliberately Bad Listening
- Randomness and Responsibility
- Dramatic Arc
- Arranging as a Subtractive Process
- The Power of Erasing
- Formal Skeletons
- Common Forms 1: Elements of Song Form
- Common Forms 2: Layering as Form
- Short Loops as Endings
- Unique Events
- Three Ways to End
- Rendering as Commitment
- Getting Feedback
- Diminishing Returns
- Fail Better