How do you listen to music?
- Thread starter HERESY
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I'm the same way, pick apart every sound in a song, how each peice is EQ'd, where everything is panned, and effects used to get *That* sound to have *That* sound. Find out what the mixing engineer did to get the vocals so fat, what type of reverb or echo or delay or any effects they might have used to get it that clean.
Anyayall ever stop mid-convo (while listening to music) to hear where something is in a song? Or what they layer'd to get that sicc-ass-snare?
People be like "Wait up what were you saying"
i'm all like "MAYNE thats a snap, clap, snare and an open hi-hat!"
"...."
"it sounds sicc. I like the claves in there too"
"..."
Anyayall ever stop mid-convo (while listening to music) to hear where something is in a song? Or what they layer'd to get that sicc-ass-snare?
People be like "Wait up what were you saying"
i'm all like "MAYNE thats a snap, clap, snare and an open hi-hat!"
"...."
"it sounds sicc. I like the claves in there too"
"..."
I try to predict the next sound, and if the music isn't real musical to begin with (like most rap music), you'll be able to tell the pattern by listening from verse to hook. As far as wondering how the producer/composer mad ethe beat I don't worry about that because there is no way of telling just by listening. The only way you'll know is if he or she told you (or said it in an interview) or if you were present when it was made.
I know for me personally I simply start. I cut on the workstations and mess around til I find something I like. I may start on the drum pattern, but that may end up being changed. I may start on the bassline, but that may end up getting changed to fit the drum pattern or chord progression (if one is used.) So for me nothing is etched in stone when it comes to making music. But for mixing, I pretty much am set in my ways. I actually start mixing while I am tracking, and I take it a step further while I am arranging the music.
I know for me personally I simply start. I cut on the workstations and mess around til I find something I like. I may start on the drum pattern, but that may end up being changed. I may start on the bassline, but that may end up getting changed to fit the drum pattern or chord progression (if one is used.) So for me nothing is etched in stone when it comes to making music. But for mixing, I pretty much am set in my ways. I actually start mixing while I am tracking, and I take it a step further while I am arranging the music.
I don't listen to the lyrics anymore, because let's face it. Everyone raps about the same shit anyway, just in different sentences/words. I focus mainly on the beat, to see how well all the instruments and drums mix together and if they're parallel with the tempo. It might take me a few plays to actually feel some songs, or develope an ear for them. But in the end, I either enjoy listening to it, or it gets skipped everytime. There's no in between for me.