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Went to follow... Already am. That was easy.

Google+ hangouts would work well for that.

Thems was good days. The eye opening experience of my first rave back before they recruited the fun police.

I'm just thankful there are extremely creative souls out there making the most of new technologies.

Thankfully Mixcloud got a whole lot better recently...

Voters punish major parties http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/06/voters-punish-major-parties-in-western-australian-senate-election-rerun Looks like Scott Ludlam got back in, quite easily.

Hey bud... Welcome

Was hoping to do a bit of shopping tonight too.

The one for Nickelback to not play at the Superbowl was better.

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Here are some more basics to get people going.... The staff This is the thing with lots of lines that music is written on. One of the most common staves seen is the piano staff which consists of two, a treble staff (top) and bass staff (bottom), noted with a treble clef and a bass clef... On a piano typically the bass is played with the left hand and the treble the right. But they can intertwine in complex scores (notably classical and blues/jazz). Looking at the treble staff the lines and spaces represent notes. From the bottom going up they are E, G, B, D, F, (Every, Good, Boy, Deserves, Fruit) and the spaces in the middle are F, A, C, E (umm... FACE, simple). notes can extend past the staff and are written with their own line just through that note. Most noticeable is "Middle C" which is one line below the bottom E on the Treble Staff and 1 line above the bass Staff. Each note on the staff represents a very specific key on a piano (or any instrument). That bottom line doesn't represent any old E. The middle C is the C note about 1/3 from the left on a full 88 note piano. This is usually the note used to orientate oneself with all the others and also why typically C major is the "normal" key most people are taught to work with rather than the seemingly logical A minor. Bass clef is similar. Just everything is moved down a line. So G, B, D, F, A for the lines and A, C, E, G for the spaces. Key signatures and music timing will be noted at the beginning of the stave just after the clef. Key Signatures The vast majority of keys found in EDM are minor. As previously explained minor key will be dominated by the minor sounding 1, 4 and 5 chords. What does a "minor sound" sound like? Well it has historically been used to convey sadness, but in saying that it does also tend to have a "pretty" sound which may explain it's prevalence in EDM. Or as I previously speculated A minor is popular because people with no theory knowledge would take this to be the easiest and most natural key to play. Certain keys suit certain musical styles and are more convenient to play with instruments of that genre. For this reason many rock n roll and guitar driven pop songs are commonly in D major or G major as the chords of those keys are easy to play and well known with guitarist. For piano music and therefore synth based EDM this isn't as important as most keys are the same to play, although I am better keys that use lots of sharps/flats would be mostly avoided as they are more complex to play for the less experienced. Some common EDM keys A Minor C Minor G Minor D Minor There are many, many more possibilties. These are just a few common ones I have noticed. Look up Wikipedia if you want to know a specific key.

Same dude that used his maiden speech (and probably only speech due to bi election) to call out Tony Abbott on just about everything.

I think there are enough differences. Really how different can a mouse head silhouette be? His has much bigger ears.

What Addi has described is the major/minor triads which are your basis for chords for A minor and C major chords. Now which ones you chose is the next step, and this is where knowing your keys and what notes are in them. Let's use the key A minor as it is very prevalent in EDM. I assume due to lack of musical theory knowledge.... Most logical starting point is A right and play all the white keys? Well not really.... But anyway... A Minor Notes: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, Chords: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, For universal sake chords are often numbered, so chord 1 (typical in roman numerals ie I, II, III, IV so on) in the key of A minor will have the minor triad of A, C, E. Chord 2 - B, D, F. Chord 5 - E, G, B. etc.... Now chords 1, 4 & 5 will have a minor sound. Whilst 3, 6 & 7 will have a major sound...... In a minor key. Major key mixes this up. What about 2? This one is called diminished. C Major Notes: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, Chords: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Notice, same notes as A Minor but starts differently. Not the only similarities. Major chords: 1, 4, 5 Minor chords: 2, 3, 6 Diminished: 7 If you look the chords are the same too. C major (1), D minor (2), E minor (3), F major (4), G major (5), A minor (6) B Dim So how do you know if you are playing in A minor or C major? Well that depends on the chords you are using and basing you song around. The primary chords for songs are typically 1, 4 and 5, with 2 and 6 thrown in for good measure. Generally chords 3 and 7 don't play a major part in any song (generally... no absolute rules on anything). But moving between chords 1, 4 and 5 sounds very natural as they share many notes. You may also recognise this from the Camelot wheel mixing in key theory (the song you are playing is 1 and either side on the wheel is 4 and 5). So from here once you have decided your key, you know know the typical chords to use. How you use and order them is up to you. The most famous chord progression is the 12 bar blues: 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 1, 1, 5, 4, 1, 1 Certain chord progressions have typical sounds. 5 to 1 has a finished sound to it (as in the end of the song) so does a 5, 4, 1 progression. 4 to 1 is the "Amen" progression which is the "Amen" at the end of a hymn. This is all very, very basic. Music theory is a very complex beast. And it has been almost 20 years since I studied it so some of this is a bit sketchy. But I have been thinking we need a basic music thread for ages.

I did read that. But seriously this is a huge amount of effort to go to just because of some perceived paranoia or hipster mentality of refusing to use a popular service that does the job perfectly fine.

Epic set! Went straight to Beatport to purchase that Galantis - You track. Epic progressive house anthem!

One of YSM's threads had a couple interesting keyboards. But I'm gunna follow this too as I want to pick one up later in the year and be good to see what others may recommend.

Holy fuck... Have you been uploading this for the last 3 days! 878mb!

Or you could just get a Gmail account for $0 per month.

True. But until I see it stream at 320kbps or whatever the highest quality AAC is I won't buy into it. One of my pet peevs is shitty quality music.

Overall I think you got some good bones to work with here. Not a fan at all of the snare that comes in at 1 minute mark. Also this is where I would bring the vocals back in. Also a bit much going on with the synths during this part for my liking, sounds a bit dissonant at times. Needs more intro. This would be a bitch to mix into anything. I do like the vocals, but wish there was maybe a second verse to work with.

WTF is the story with the Emergency Ward?

Spit... The devil's lube

Makes spending the first night sleeping in the car seem pretty boring.

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