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> For the time, great. No sarcasm. I mean that. Today, a bit tedious, because we don't need our repetition built right into our music, we add it with our playba
by alfiedotwtf 7y ago
> For the time, great. No sarcasm. I mean that. Today, a bit tedious, because we don't need our repetition built right into our music, we add it with our playback technology if we want it.
That's a really interesting take. Nice
> Moonlight Sonata...
Funny you say that, it's on my inspiration list that I want to turn into trance.
I think the trouble though with using non-repeating classical piano into trance is that the intensity and syncopation is just so widely different. As an example, check out Chopin's Etude Op. 10 No. 12 "Revolutionary"... one of my favorite pieces, but how the hell do you turn that into dance music? It's just so wild and chaotic.
- thenewwazoo 7y agoI just took a listen (specifically spotify:track:0Z1vYjhlHvomaTl2VWGLrd), and I think there's something there you should pursue. Truly. The first 15 seconds could be stripped down and the scale part (sorry, I lack the terminology) to only the parts needed to agree with the second voice that comes in, and repeated a few times. The syncopation of that second voice would work great when laid over the beat. Then the mood gets darker and the theme is re-asserted. This would be the "meat" of the track. The entire time, all of the fluttery scale stuff gets stripped only to those spare notes which are needed to harmonize with the higher "voice" and carry the theme. I obviously don't have the chops, but this is a great, great idea. It's wild and chaotic, but it doesn't need to be. Chopin has these wild scales to drive the piece along, but you've got a beat.
- alfiedotwtf 7y agohehe, cool. Thanks for the encouragement! Yeah I won't be giving up on Chopin... it's angry and energetic, just how I like my EDM to be :)