Composing music

[Giff]

Anyone here good at writing lyrics, play inrument and/ or good at composing melodies?

I've played piano since I was 6 years or something, not so much anymore though, and I have I come up with quite some good melodies.

Would be fun to see if anyone on this forum have the same interest and perhaps could do something together.

[Edwardo Piet]

[Giff]

[leo-rcc]

I like "Time to pretend" from MGMT a lot.

[Edwardo Piet]

My favourite band is Orbital.
I also like Long Range, Underworld, Paul Hartnoll, Leftfield, Plaid, Royksopp, some Moby and I also like Muse and Radiohead quite a lot.

I like some Coldplay and am very fond of viva la vida - I think that In My Place might be one of my favourite - depends on my mood. I also like Trouble a lot.

I also like some Alicia keys and Lenny Kravtiz too.
I haven't heard the Ting Tings much but I do quite like what I've heard by them...in a different sort of way - it's likeable for me, not deep but likeable.

I don't like mainstream stuff - I don't like really mainstream techno either really. I like more of the acid house/techno that came out of detroit techno - with the Roland 303 and 909 etc- I like electronica and I like a lot of t he prog/house/trance of whatever that Underworld do.

What I think is cool about Orbital and Underworld is there are similarities there and it was around the same era - but there are a lot of differences too.

I could go on and on about music but I'll stop here now..
Orbital are my fav tho.

EvF

[athoughtfulman]

[Edwardo Piet]

I'm not a fan of all the electro around today either

(my bolding obviously)

--Yeah I'm pretty much with you there...I personally think that electronica, techno, electro dance-trance etc has been best between 1989-99
I liked the interesting change of style around the millennium - but it seemed to go down hill after that for me.

My favourite bands seemed to form about around the time I was born funnily enough--when Acid House was around, etc - coming out of Detroit Techno.
I think 1989-1999 is my favourite period.

Orbital, Underworld, Leftfield, Moby, etc - they all started around late-very late 80s.
I personally think in comparison that elecronic music tends to suck a lot today - it's all kind of the same and very cheesy and doesn't seem to have much thought into it. Seems to be very shallow and at times - pretty mindless.

I quite like Royksopp that started at 2001 - but they still can't hold ground with Orbital and Underworld, etc - for me.
My favourite band around at the moment is definitely Long Range - the experimental electronica band with Phil Harnoll from Orbital and Nick Smith - who does quite clubby music I think I heard.
Nick also did the music to the opening credits to the movie Hannibal.

Anyway I think Long Range are absolutely superb - it's newer but Phil Hartnoll is from Orbital and he started in 1989 - and it's not exactly commercial - I hate that commercial dance shit! - No, it's very experimental - and electronica covers very wide areas in music.

EvF

[Giff]

Have you not used piano sounds or anything like that?

It's quite beutiful and sometimes paino mixed with some techno beats and such can be quite good. But I prefer usual drums . But it depends on what kind of beat it is, but that traditional hard techno drums are not so pleasant.

I would like to show what I can do on a piano, but I no longer have any way to record on a computer.

Anyway, you both seem to be very good at composing and making music. Seems good.

[Edwardo Piet]

Piano is my 2nd favourite instrument after the Synthesizer and drums - truly beautiful, pure and awesome instrument...awesome.

Not including keyboards - overall keyboard is my favourite because you can get all 3 of those sounds (and then some) out of it.

EvF

P.S: On the techno music program I have I haven't actually got any pure piano sounds I believe, all the instruments are kind of synth versions - I used to have all the instruments under the sun in sample form in a program called Proteus X, no more.