RE: Wondering about two beginnings [Alex K's musical outpourings]
March 19, 2017 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2017 at 11:36 am by Alex K.)
(March 19, 2017 at 10:24 am)Faith No More Wrote: I prefer the alternative one better. It sounds more like an intro, and it makes the song sound like there's more of a progression where comparatively the normal one sounds more like it starts out in the middle. Good stuff, though.
When you say you taught yourself some basics of harmony, what sources were you using? I've been trying to learn more about music theory and am always looking for material to learn from.
Since I'm such a Bach fan, my first goal was to understand how to write Fugues, so for baroque and classical music, I got two German textbooks, Kontrapunkt by Krämer, and Harmonielehre by Diether de la Motte. The former is very practical including exercises, but mainly for writing counterpoint, only with some overlap with harmony. Here's my best attempt so far at a fugue based on those studies btw.
https://youtu.be/1kEA00pF9II
Yeah...Fugue writing is hard
The latter book by De la Motte focuses on harmony and has a very intriguing historical approach but is focused on analysis and not a direct guide for immediately writing something. I did browse Piotr Tschaikowski's book from which I learned some interesting things.
For Jazz, I went a different pragmatic route. I looked at all the introductory YT vids on building 7th chords, the 251 chord progression and on cocktail piano techniques. My first application I tried was writing 7 chord harmonies for the song Suburbia, the result of which you find on my soundcloud.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
