How to Develop a Musical Idea [Full Length Real-Time Tutorial]
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- How do you take a basic idea and turn it into a 2'30" piece of music? That's what Guy Michelmore shows you in this 2 HOUR SPECIAL! To celebreate 200,000 subscribers we've pulled out all the stops. From first idea to finished piece, wrong turns, blind alleys and moments of inspiration all there in real time. It you want to know how to develop and musical idea this is for you. It's 2 minutes longer than Star Wars and a minute less than Jaws. Just fewer galactic battles and sharks.
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How To Write Music explores the fundamental skills that underpin every great piece of music whether it’s a song or a film score, string quartet or video game sounds track.
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Here are some of the instruments I was using:
zero-g.co.uk/products/ethera-2-0
www.weyrerton.com/tyrolean-ha...
www.synapse-audio.com/dune3.html
www.native-instruments.com/en...
splice.com/home
0:00:00 Introduction
0:03:30 Starting Template
0:04:32 Initial Idea
0:07:01 Battery
0:08:50 FX Track
0:10:28 Dune Synth
0:13:25 Bass
0:16:15 Splice Percussion
0:18:20 Lo-Fi Glow
0:19:56 Splice Kick
0:22:42 Ethera Vocals
0:34:54 B Idea
0:37:09 Reverses
0:41:37 Tyrolean Harp
0:47:45 Piano Reverse
0:49:13 Splice Loop
0:54:44 B Section
0:57:23 Ethera Vocals
1:08:40 Piano
1:12:00 Bass
1:15:30 Tidying Up B
1:20:14 Birds
1:20:49 Part Two
1:24:00 Structure
1:27:30 Synth Lead
1:34:40 Piano
1:37:00 Arranging
1:42:30 More Tidying
1:50:30 Mixing
1:54:00 Playthrough
1:57:07 Day 1 Wrapup
1:58:24 The Next Morning
1:59:35 Day 2 Changes
2:02:38 Final Wrapup
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Yes talk to the instruments. Let Guy be Guy!!
Guy,
Not sure if you ever read these things, but between bird feeding, terrorizing the world with spiders, and your sometimes double sunglasses of doubt, you still somehow manage to muster your superpowers of educating and inspiring us in ways that truly matter.
For all of your work, seemingly boundless energy, and willingness to share what’s tossing around in that often hilarious head of yours, I want to simply thank you and let you know that you and your refreshing talent and efforts matter to so many people - me being only one amongst the rest.
Thank you so much for making the world of music a more approachable, informative, and for more enjoyable place to be!
All my best!
Thank you very kind
Fully agree! He’s amazing.
@@ThinkSpaceEducation You’re amazing. Please never stop making videos. You are such an inspiration
Being able to watch a professional go through his process right in front of you is a marvel of the internet. Thank you Guy, I learned a lot.
That vocal sample worked so well it actually sounded like it was meant to be. That's rare when it happens.
ignore whoever told you to stop talking to your instruments. it's not weird, it's "quirky". ;)
I love it when they do that. It's really funny, and makes it seem not that serious and boring.
I feel sorry for Daniele, though. Guy did not say "Hello, Daniele." Some kind of snub, I guess.
@@JacqueHarper Yeah.. :c
It only becomes weird and strange when they start talking back..Unless they tell you what to play.. then listen...
That Tyrolean Harp melody sounds like a melody in Tubular Bells.
Endlessly entertaining whilst being a brilliant educator, musician and composer. I love you, man 😭😂
He's a gem! Thankful for your videos, Guy!
Me too.
*Highly Underrated*
This channel deserves more than 10M subscribers at this point.
PS : *My Favourite Music Channel ever* ♥️
Really enjoyable. Thank you. There was plenty of 'stuff' there that could be channeled into another direction for another project. Parent and child analogy. The reason I watched with my wife was to show her a potentially new direction for her life after a serious stroke which has left her paralyzed on the left side. She has all the basics. Good piano, vocal and musical theory skills which can be used again via software and a midi controller. I started her on OMD, then to Depeche Mode and now to you. Now to buy a simple controller and software that is inexpensive since we're now down to social security. But if she can write a good travel commercial we could be on the way to earning just enough for the city.
There are many possibilities for making some income from music. From selling loops to making full songs for sites like PretzelRocks and Audiio. I hope your wife and you are able to enjoy many opportunities from the hobby.
Gotta say, I'm already liking this with an empty session as the starting point. Big props for stepping out on the slack wire without a net.
Especially given Guy has thousands of instruments to choose from, I'm already overwhelmed with about a dozen vsts
The man who convinced me to learn how to compose. Something I never thought I would like to do.
Here's what I'm getting from this: the power of perseverance. I don't mean this as disrespectful at all, but when I heard Guy build the beginning of this idea I just didn't like it. But as he added stuff, it really started sounding good. I need to persevere more with my ideas before saying, 'nah that's rubbish'.
That’s what I thought too
I find a lot of the time, when i go to write a song. I hit a point early on in the writing where I am questioning if I even like what im working on. In the past i would usually decide no and scrap it. What i have been doing recently is following through. I like to think of it as the atmosphere of songwriting. Blast off is always exciting and motivating, but i often hit that upper atmosphere and hit tons of resistance and turbulence. Almost like my brain knows hard work is on the way. I have found if i push past that resistance and do the work, it often leads to my best pieces of work. I wish i realized this years ago, so maybe this will be a lightbulb for another fellow musician :)
Ethera Gold 2.5 is the icing on the cake!
I really am not sure what I enjoy more. The music or just watching your joy as you play.
I do not normally watch live feeds even when watching the recorded version as there are too many "oohs and aahs and pauses" to keep the interest. However this one is full of your usual entertaining stuff and brim full of ideas.
Great watch👍
What a really enjoyable video to watch. And it is nice to know that even the pro's, after a break, decide everything they just did was crap even when they thought it was good an hour before.
Love Ethera gold 2.5 and clara’s voice
indeed
I don’t have any of these skills or equipment, I’m not a music producer, but I find Guy’s videos absolutely fascinating and love his good humoured and modest style…thanks Guy, I’m not sure what I’ve learnt but I always enjoy watching you.
Thank you for putting the time into this Mr. Michelmore, it was great. Loved watching the thought process.
What a gem you are. Trying to understand music at a deeper level and you make it fun. Your energy is incredible!
I listened to all sorts of music as a kid, rock to orchestral. Wound up playing in a rock band at first but went on to doing top 40 rock/pop/country/blues well you get the picture. Wound up in the last 20 years of my career doing Old time Gospel music in a country/blue grass mode. Now I'm somewhat retired other than my youtube channel and I'm enjoying trying to write instrumental music in, shall we say, an orchestral mode. I'm so glad I found you. You do exactly what I'm learning to do. I arranged in many styles in my studio because we had all sorts of customers and I specialized in vocals and harmonies. I'm now enjoying just writing what comes to me without having to please anyone but me lol! Thank you for your inspiration! You do a wonderful job of making things interesting as you teach. Oh, and it's OK to talk to your instruments!! I find some of mine behave very well, but others? Some of them can be real rascals lol!
A great communication between the instruments and the artist, goes a long way!
“Slow motion by the pool”... 😂.. as a mouthful of Sunday morning coffee almost goes half way across the room..
so many layers and musical information in less than three minutes. A much slower build-up of section A and also giving the last section time to grow into cresendo over a longer period of time. Such a song can easily last five minutes with more subtle changes. But fantastic to see and hear it come to life from a blank page.
Love the openness of your process Guy. Takes a real man! A kick arse guitar solo would add I believe.
One of the most entertaining educators who teaches real skills and holds your attention throughout. Keep up the excellent work Guy!!
Wow, that Ethera kontakt bank is incredible! Great video as per usual.
Somebody once said, coming up with a new tune is like trying to think of a new colour!!
Stumbled across your channel last night and you sir have inspired me to start playing piano and to compose. I play and record guitar, but you make this look like so much fun. Thank you for showing your process! You are such a breath of fresh air! ❤
We love when you're talking to your synths and devices... NEVER STOP!
What I liked most about this was starting from a raw "blank" file. I really appreciate watching you build from the bottom up. Also a little envious about your wonderful English cottage studio.
Guy your idea of middle of the road is my perfect song. To get a song that's ten percent of this one takes about a week, and no one has a video on me. Absolutely wonderfully useful video.
Another excellent video. Watching this while waiting for my Spitfire BBC SO to download. What a time to be alive.
So grateful to Guy for showing us how he does music production from scratch, this is much better than watching other videos who try and cram everything into a few minutes, thanks Guy..
This guy is a genuine genius.
This dude is a delight! 🔥🔥❤️
Awsome vid over two hours practicing Guy Chi,, my brain is a bit sore, but very stretchy..but what great content.. I think this is one of the best vids I have seen. Thank You so very much Guy..
Been waiting for this video for awhile can't wait! 😁
The 2nd A section can sort of be a soundtrack for the movie, Finding Nemo 😆 getting some deep in the ocean vibes with it 😍 that harp truly changes the overall mood! Love your work always, Guy. 💖
Absolutely brilliant! This channel is so inspirational. Really look forward to the videos coming out. And it's all done with so much enthusiasm. I've told a few more people about this channel so hopefully they'll get as much out of it as I do. Many thanks to you and your team Guy!!
The biggest brake for developing ideas are the endless possibilities we have nowadays with all the plugins and sounds, loops and effects in my opinion. Its nice to see you going straight through all your stuff an pick two or three presets that will do the job. You can loose yourself so easy with searching the perfect match in this state.
This is generous of you, Guy!
Revealing the real process is reassuring to those of us who worry about trying to make every note or phrase perfect the first time around.
The How To Write Music course is fantastic, too!
note the fact watching youtube is free.
watching your tutorials are brilliant, like finding that needle in a hay stack.
thank you
That was amazing, I’ve only been doing this music thing for about 6 months or so but I’ve learned so much from you Guy, even done a couple of your courses too. Thank you!
Guy, Thanks so much for doing this. I'm fascinated by your live composing videos. Please keep doing them! You can take even more time talking through your thinking process as far as I'm concerned. More the better!
Loved watching this, I was thinking "So I'm not crazy", slaping stuff all over the place and seeing what works is a valid way of working :D
Super useful! Many levels ..... from watching you use the software, especially when you didn’t know where ever little thing was and you had to look around. That made me feel so good that even you don’t have every detail of thing you use in your memory.
I also loved to watch your creative process, so encouraging! As usual your personality makes it all fun. Thanks again.
I always start a new track by just coming up with a chord progression. I actually find it much easier than working the other way around.
When you write music for someone Guy they know they're going to get something special.
I really appreciated the cut to the birds. The sounds dropping out for the pigeon and robin was brilliant!
Yesss!!!! Can't wait!
why did I get the feeling that Guy was scoring a Planet Earth Documentary :) :)
10 minutes in, and I am humming a melody to go over your motif that you have started with, and even humming what I think would be a second verse or even a melody for a chorus.... it doesnt happen when I listen to my own shite lol
Watching as much of this as I can on my lunch break. Can’t wait to finish it later.
I am a non-professional drummer nor do I study music or anything and I really like to watch your videos to learn more about composing music. I really have problems with finding melodic ideas and your videos help a lot.
Great seeing you did this so recently and all the toys in the studio, the camera angles and controllers all on my wish list...some already bought!
What is also good is showing that the creative process isn't just 20 minutes of pure skill, though you obviously know cubase like the back of your hand, you chop and change, inspire yourself and for this one grind through. The discipline to finish, that was important.
Glad my insomnia brought me here.
'I want to do something different' made me have a little laugh. Says everyone I reckon!
I really like the moments where that pulsating synth rhythm comes to the fore and then recedes again. Like at 1:33:33. Nice soft attack...
Thanks so much in advance for this video it's going to be great for sure!
Brilliant! I love the whole work process you're showing. Extremely helpful. Thank you!
Please do more of these Guy, raw and uncut in different genres. I great to see workflow and little tricks in Cubase along the way.
This Saturday evening I wanted to make some music, but then I started watching this video... and I do no regret how I spend my time this evening... good video as always...
Congratulations on your 200K+ subscribers, well deserved for all of your great videos...Keep them coming, they are brill...thank you
Can’t wait!!
Thank you Guy. Have recently found your channel and very pleased I have! So refreshing to see this level of detail on CZcams NOT involving hip 20-somethings doing house, techno, trap, etc. Please do more of this style of video!
Love the channel, love the inventiveness and ideas, love the humour. More of these, please!
Lol, by the end I was hearing "Blue skies, spacious beaches, luxurious facilities. Our new resorts are specialy tailored to your needs. Come join us now."
You actually got me on a Laugh out loud when you said that about talking to your instruments, Or Not talking to them rather as it is weird. I am still baffled that there is a large majority of the world who still thinks the rest of us don't know that they do all the same fool things at at home that we all do. Just look at all the people with glasses. lol Sorry to rant. I enjoy these kinds of videos, it has inspired me to purchase a few tools to start writing myself. I'm 57 and have always held back because I need to be a little better on guitar and Truth is I didn't need to be great to write. It's really going to be fun this time. The fact that so many of you are putting it out there with "how to" videos and leading the way it's a great time to be alive. So, Thanks and I really am just trying to load the software and it's crazy because I don't know if I'm doing it right or not. I'm not even sure what DAW came with this package. Abelton Live LIght and a few of the Amplitude's 4 and 5. I'm going to get me a little keyboard And I'm not really a pianist but I do enjoy tickling the plastic and some easy chord progressions I can handle which will give me a little fill from the Guitar and Vocals. And I love most all kinds of music and anyway, thanks to all of you who put it out there for us non Trailblazers.
Guy, I love your channel. This is fantastic stuff. As a composer I spend so much time going through this process, taking a simple idea and trying to develop it into something that I can deliver to a library that has any chance of getting placed :-) Your topics on this channel hit so much of what I go through in this process of producing my own music. Thanks so much for the great videos.
Words will be so tiny for you. You're a great Guru. 🙏
Can't believe this is available for free . Thank you very much Guy
Why are there always people with thumbs down? I hate that! Guy is simply the best👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
You wrote the perfect 2000's news intro. Plays tune, welcome to BBC news.
Love the vids, your immense knowledge and energy. You are a gem to any aspiring musician, thank you.
I just watched the two hours. I could of made a track myself in that time. But I prefer to watch Guy do a track, than myself, and I don't feel guilty, I now feel great! I think your CZcams channel will always have a great following, and its the one thing you cant teach us Guy.....Charisma! Everyone can improve it but some are born natural and are damm good at it! The definition of charisma is "compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others.". Which kind of sums up your CZcams channel.
Well! Friday just got a little more exciting 🥳
Thanks so much for this. Brilliant seeing your process.
Love this! As I was listening, I was thinking this would be great for an African animal documentary due to the vocals. It just has that kind of vibe to me. I imagine African drums could really push this project. But it could be used in a myriad of ways in its present form . Very nice!! Keep up the great videos for inspiration!
I've never done this but I'm going to comment before I've seen any of the video. Only to say, I'm so excited to watch this video! I've been writing melodies off and on for the last 15 years, trying to figure out how to tackle that beast. To see someone else just share their experience - the good and the bad - is such a gift. Living in the future is awesome. Ok, going to watch it! :)
No more words needed: you are an inspiration!! Please keep forward- Great work, inspiring me to much more try and error 🤩🤩🤩
Why have I only just found you? I loved this and having just blown the dust off my keys, I’m getting on with something like this starting right now. Great work......... SUBSCRIBED 👍🏻🏴
Once again ladies and germs...."GUY IS IN THE ROOM!" :)
You're absolutely brilliant, and I really love your videos. That being said, I can't help but feel like this song should be the background music in a TV commercial for antidepressants 😂
I don't know why I thought of Vangelis when I listened the final version.
Very inspiring video Guy, thank you.
I just wanna say thank you so much for this video! I recently just started writing my own music too but I often get so frustrated and stumped after squeezing out a phrase or a melody of some sort but dislike it and end up hating myself not long after lol. Watching you do this process from an empty project helped me realize that really, the process should all be about experimenting and have fun! I think I am too hard on myself sometimes.
Love the birds in the middle of the video! A great addition to the already super insightful composing session.
That sounds amazing, some of the techniques you used really surprised me also!
Beautifully done, Guy. I love it, travel music or not :) I learned a lot from this so thank you very much. Your subscriber in Southwest Virginia!
First maggle !! Thanks Guy 🔥
Thanks for being a source of inspiration.
Guy, I've been discovering your channel. I recently upgraded my setup learned a new DAW (Cubase) and released a Christmas album (late by the way) and... I haven't had an drop of inspiration since...until I started watching your channel and seeing your creative process. It helped me see some ways of kickstarting my music making again. Thank you very much for releasing this content. (by the way, if that was music for a cruise line advert, it was far better than most cruise line adverts I have heard :) )
Guy Michelmore: Well we can't do that for 3 minutes, obviously
Philip Glass: Hold my beer...
Truly inspiring, thank you.
All I can hear is “I’m not that girl” from Wicked the musical 😂
This is so interesting to follow along with. I'm so inspired!
Thank You For Sharing Guy! Really Insightful!
The second you wrote that intro piece, I was singing "Elvis In Vegas" by Meat Loaf through the entire video lol
Hello. I'm from Greece and you'll still be your channel. Thank you very much through my heart for all the information so important that I can, too, a little through your channel. You're an amazing man and information is invaluable. I promise I'll keep watching you because through the channel I'm learning a lot of important things.
As you may have understood my English is not so good and I use a translator. Anyway, thank you again
Always delightful and informative to see genius at work. And the people who write music for cruise line advertisements should feel suitably chastened.
5:51 F Quintal. It's really beneficial to think of stuff like that as stacked 5ths cause it starts leading you to the pentatonic, which you can use as a go between for all the keys that may use it.
Thanks, Guy, for reassuring me (and many others, I suspect) that the clunky, sometimes haphazard way I go about composition, is actually the way it's done. Haha! You have a vastly deeper toolbox than I, and a wonderfully masterful touch on those keys, but inspiration ensues nonetheless. And I am all the more grateful for your generosity in sharing. :)