Do I Have Potential?

Renoise Songs
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Hey Everyone!

This Is My first post on this board!

Well I made 3 songs on renoise, I bought it back in december, but never used it until now.( I was Too Busy)

I have a little bit of experince with recording music before I bought renoise, with using fruity loops, and i also play guitar a little bit.

I have been making electronic music since september 2007.

I have 2 soundclicks

one is from back in september when I first started making electronic music, when I was using fruity loops. Its called Neon Ecstacy.

The other is from when I first started recording guitar in 2005, it has the three songs I made in renoise

The songs are

Cryptic slime frozen in Cracks

Temptations last question

cloudy dreamland of eternity

I"m not looking for advice on the guitar playing

I just want to know what everyone thinks of the electronic music I have made over the past ten months

am I behind for the amount of time that I have been making electronic music?

I hear some really impressive stuff on here how long has everyone else been recording?

I just want to make complex music, the kinda stuff that people go wow that guy is good!

Also I think the best song I made on the neon ecstacy account is “Mind Expantion”.

The account that has the renoise songs.

The song titles once again:

Cryptic slime frozen in Cracks

Temptations last question

cloudy dreamland of eternity

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=356760

The neon excstacy account

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cf…p;content=music

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I know it’s not the advice you’re looking for but I gotta say you should be making music primarily for your own enjoyment. It doesn’t matter if other people are impressed or even like what you make, as long as you have a good time making it. :walkman:

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egocore

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yes

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I think that 80% may not be enough

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Welcome!

Interesting tracktitles by the way.
Good luck finding your vibe, there aint
much more to this music making thing.

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Sorry, I really didn’t mean to depress you :unsure:

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Good music is simple music. It’s pretty easy to make stuff that overloads your brain. But making something catchy, full of energy and atmosphere is as hard as making something extremely complex yet listenable.

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Ahum… in the ear of the beholder please, thank you. ;)

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Yes, you have potential, especially for making funny names :D

I took a listen to your three renoise songs and i think that there are decent bits, but the overall song progression is a bit dull. Also it seems that you are using only a narrow strip of frequencies, you have no basslines and your beats sound distant and detached. You don’t seem to think about rhythm a lot.

I understand that you’d like to become a skilled craftsman in Renoise, and that will come in time. In the meantime maybe you could make every single song as good and exhaustive as it can possibly be, instead of making several songs that are similar.

Verdict: yes

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Proof

http://www.discogs.com/release/54735

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oh shit why didn’t I think of that?! I’M GONNA GO WRITE SOME EGOCORE!!! :o

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btw… you have potential… the question is, how long until you reach your potential? I’d say, listening to these tracks, that you’ve got a ways to go… you’ve got arranging down… and you obviously know what kind of sound you want… but your rhythm and melody skills need to improve significantly… start listening closely to how artists use rhythm and melody together to create a certain vibe… pay close attention to how melodies will strike with, or at opposing times to percussion… google “syncopation” and look for examples of it… also, listen to artists that don’t use many instruments, to see how they play with each other… listen for things like silence in a mix… pay close attention to when instruments stop playing, as opposed to when they start.

You also need to learn how to mix properly… it really sounds like very little mixing at all went into these compositions, and as a result, they’d be HELL to master properly. The tips I just gave about composition should help you with mixing, but also keep in mind that the longer a sound plays, the more it muddies up the mix… reverb and delay sound awesome by themselves, but if everything has heavy reverb or echo, nothing will stand out anymore.