![]() ![]() ![]() I did post the original message on here during that time so, if you look for something like 60,000 free chord midi pack or something you may be able to find the original message. So, if anyone would want them they are on my website. They are 100% free and they are still out there on internet. When we do that, it not only takes much more time but also leaves out the benefit of learning a shared language for communicating about music as part of establishing the mental framework.ĭuring lockdown I made a midi chord pack with way much more stuff included over 60,000+ files I believe after getting tired of seeing people trying to profit from them. Similar to entering notes, we need some kind of mental framework for musical ideas in our brains anyway before we can be creative, so why not establish one the effective way? The alternative is to try and reinvent the wheel by not learning from those who came before us and figuring out the same things on our own. After that, harmony is just the exact same ideas applied to simultaneous frequencies instead of subsequent ones (and consonance/dissonance is more pronounced as a result). Once you know how to navigate a given scale, you can directly explore the relationships between various scale degrees and melodic intervals. Speaking of which, learning how to express your musical ideas on an instrument - especially something like piano or guitar which allows for harmony and not just single melodic lines - is also a great learning guide for theory since it provides such immediate feedback. Learning my way around the keyboard was like developing a closer and more immediate relationship with music. I started learning how to do that around a decade too late, and in hindsight it really slowed down parts of my musical development. I still click in a ton of my notes if I know exactly what I want because my keyboard skills can't keep up with busy parts, but nothing has helped my song writing more than learning my way around the keyboard to the extent I can use it for writing. It doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing situation where you either dedicate all or none of your music time to learning to play. The notes need to get in there one way or another, so why not learn how to do it effectively? Using the piano roll is like writing a letter to express an idea and playing is like just saying it instead. It's just scammy that they're charging money for something that took minimal effort to produce and other sites offer for free. and using MIDI to come up with a great progression isn't so different from using a physical instrument. it can be if you just drag and drop, but if you're really set on playing around and making something worthwhile, premade chords and progressions can help. So I would argue that it's not really 'cheating' or necessarily laziness. it was just a lot of shapes I was making with my fingers. I had played chords for years without even thinking of what notes were in them. Turning those guitar jams into MIDI synthpop songs forced me to really think about what I had been doing, with timing, notation, everything. doing that actually taught me more about music than the years I spent playing things that 'sounded cool' on my guitar, not knowing really what anything was. It does make musicmaking more accessible to people who don't actually know anything about what they're doing, so there will be more crap.īut MIDI chords can be chopped up and notes can be moved and velocities can be modified. and if you're just dragging and dropping then you're probably going to sound boring. I would say yeah, the AI thing is definitely not creativity at all. ![]() We’ve all heard those AI-produced Beatles and Nirvana songs and they’re dogshit lol Similarly, I can press “generate” on some AI painting generator and have it spit out a painting for me but I’m not really the guy that made it at that point, and making it is where 99% of the fun happens. But I’m also playing live and make music for a living so I need to keep a rotation to stay inspired. it doesn’t sound very inspiring at least to me. But if you’re making music every single day, you’re mostly just restricting yourself by not even bothering to grasp the basics and relying solely on a computer to not only record your music but do the songwriting for you. So you’re right! I hope midi packs are helping people in some way. And yeah it’s not really about being impressive or whatever. The nice thing about playing an instrument is it can give you time away from being in the box which gives you a chance to reflect and focus on the songs you’re writing. ![]()
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