what are your stengths

[blackwax]

ok this is me thinking out loud

what do you feel your stenghths are as a new producer?

drums and arrangement are mine but keys are where i fall short

do you get frustrated when you have an idea but cant get it down because you are weak in some areas?
How do you get round this?
Do you bring in others like session musicians etc?

[rissa]

arrangement/automation is definately where i fall short....i don't have the attention span for it ...thankfully my partner doest majority of engineering


sound design/programming comes easy :rolleyes:

[djfunq]

The net is full of free midi files.
Arpegiators also come in handy.
Tip/ when programming beats (midi)
Copy and paste that midi on to a new synth track, change that start marker 2 steps. Then press 'play' you might get surprised :)
the sky is the limit

[blackwax]

The net is full of free midi files.


links?
I spent hours looking a while back and didnt come up with much

[djfunq]

links?
I spent hours looking a while back and didnt come up with much
Huh? really?
I just typed 'free midi' in my google bar and this comes up first.
http://www.freemidi.org/
It took me 5 seconds to get the theme of 'Rocky' and Stevie Wonders 'Superstition' as a midi file :)
Have fun Blackwax ;)

[migumartinez]

man, thats hard to say.
i know where i am weak at. mixing and finishing an idea. thats the hardest part for me.

maybe my strength is to have a feeling for the wright ideas - but at the end others have to say. i am also weak in keys - thats why i deceided to take lessons. hard as it will at least a year to get something out of it.
but at the end it will save me a lot of time.

migumartinez

[jah]

i think most people fall short with keys and stuff, especially if your not from a (theoretical) music background it can be a real bitch to program a good melody, call and reponse - all that!
I think Drums are a bit more instinctive, thats not to say good drum programming isn't an art (kerri chandler anyone?!) but programming a basic groove I think would come naturally to most that arn't tone deaf! :) I hear ya though blackwax, the best thing I did was start to take piano lessons man, even just a bit of theory - learning about inversions and all that seemed to make the world of keys so much more feasable (for me at least)