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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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Zima

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I think learning an instrument would be cool, but I don't know which one I would choose to learn. XD
 

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@Zima; First of all, congrats on 1,000 posts!

Second of all, I play several instruments - cello, double bass, bass guitar, (a little bit of) piano and I also sing. I was a big, big, BIG orch dork/band geek in high school and wanted to be in every instrumental music ensemble my school offered. I ended up studying music in college (composition in undergrad, currently musicology in grad school).
 

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I want to learn how to play the guitar and the bass, and also the drums. :V
 

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I always liked the thought of being able to play the guitar, but the closest I've gotten was guitar hero.
 

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I own an acoustic guitar, which I can play a few chords on, but no actual riffs as of now. My parents are signing my up for a guitar course in the summer though, so I'll have plenty of time to learn. Guitar is a wonderful instrument. -w-
 

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I fiddle around on FL Studio, which is software for music production.
 

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Aw, that's pretty sweet! :3c DJing looks pretty fun, is it difficult?
 

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I'm working on this solo flute piece I wrote a year ago called "Winter Shadows."

And realized, for something with that title, there should probably be some musical equivalent of "shadows" in it. And now I have what I want to do with the final movement where I've been confused. Yay!

Just trying to figure out if "shadows" would be most literally represented by retrograde (backwards), inversion (upside-down) or retrograde inversion (both) of my musical ideas.
 

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I got Meloetta today. Now I should be able to finish the national dex once I stop being lazy.
 

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Aw, that's pretty sweet! :3c DJing looks pretty fun, is it difficult?

Not if you use auto-sync, which syncs two or more tracks playing :p The hard part is knowing when to fade in a song, or what goes well together. If you look through my recent VMs with Dolce you'll find a link to my latest mix, around 30 minutes of techno/free improv kinda thing. It's really fun, it's like making your own soundtrack. I love it.
 

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DJing is something I've always wanted to learn how to do.

I mean, I can put together playlists and shit like the back of my hand, but how to actually do it live.
 

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DJing is something I've always wanted to learn how to do.

I mean, I can put together playlists and shit like the back of my hand, but how to actually do it live.

Depends how complex you want it to be, some people just fade the end of a track out and fade in the beginning of another. That's easy, hell you can do that on itunes. Others layer sets of loops to create a mix, depending on your sound source, i.e. vinyl vs digital, it can be more difficult. Fewer crate sounds live, record them and playback their loops.

So it can be as easy as you want it.
 

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I took a class in high school called music technology. Basically the first half was just transcribing sheet music into Finale, and the second half was using cakewalk to make a commercial or something. It was kind of a joke. So what it really consisted of was my friend and I making really weird songs in finale.

Then we started a band called Starfish Prime and made songs with lots weird chords in them.
 

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I took a class on computer music in undergrad, since it was required for me to graduate with a composition degree. It was more about creating original music using entirely a computer (or manipulating pre-recorded sounds via computer, as in musique concrète), and not so much about DJing. And we learned how to use Audacity, Logic Pro, Reason and Max - the only ones I really remember how to use to make music are the first two.

I use Sibelius (which is music notation software like Finale is - "Finale vs. Sibelius" is like "Mac vs. PC" for composers) to write most of my music and have since high school, but most of that isn't "computer music," per se in terms of how that class described it, because it's meant to be performed by live humans. I'm not really interested in writing fully computerized music, but I would like to get better at using those programs for the sake of sort of combination live/pre-recorded pieces and for DJing.
 

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That sounds like it was actually a legitimate class as opposed to mine which seemed like it was just thrown together at the last minute. I don't think most of the things my friend and I made could be played in real life.
 

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Well, your music classes at least sound more interesting than anything my school has to offer. We basically just study classical music, learn to play a few pieces, and analyse music. All the boring stuff in my opinion.
 
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