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NGADM Round 1 Submission, Come take a listen!

Posted by camoshark - August 15th, 2012


Hey guys, just a quick heads up to let you know I've just finished my NGADM submission!

I've put over 50 hours into it, and I consider it one of my best tracks yet, so come take a listen!

In other news, the studio I'm currently building is coming along nicely. I might post some pics soon once I find a decent way to take pictures, as I'm currently piss-poor and can't afford a camera.

Pic related.

Cheers,
Samuel Hebert

NGADM Round 1 Submission, Come take a listen!


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Excellent work!

Thanks man, your's is fantasic too, I didn't even realise there were supposed to be bass and keyboards in the mix, as the song already felt complete!

Very nice! What kind of musical training do you have? Do you go to a music school?

Hey there, glad you're interested in knowing more about me!

I started taking private piano/theory lessons at the age of 7, and from there I've attended to music-oriented schools up to college, where I left after a year and a half to further my learning through private lessons (public college sucks to learn that kind of stuff, even at top-level, which I was).

In any case, I've mostly learned jazz theory, but I've recently been interested in classical music, and I've been mostly self-taught with Adler's Study of Orchestration as well as other theory books.

In any case, that's it for that, you can always ask more questions if you'd like to know something more specific!

Cheers,
Samuel Hebert

If you don't mind my asking, what public college were you attending?

I've been meaning to uy the Adler book and CD set, but they are SO expensive! I've read some of Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestration text though.

I asked about music training because you notated your recent piece in Sibelius. That surprised me, as seemingly few people on Newgrounds use notation software, even in the classical section.

Hah, no problem, though the question could be much harder to answer than would appear, for I live in the frozen wasteland that is Canada, and more precisely in my province of Quebec, we have a unique school system that integrates a transitional school called CEGEP ( french for College for General and Professional Teaching) which serves as a buffer between high school and Uni. In any case, I went to Cegep de Saint-Laurent, which is considered by many to be the best in the province for theoretical knowledge, both in Jazz and Classical notion.

As for the Adler, I'd suggest ditching the CD and renting specific tracks (or using the power of teh internetz) to serve as aural support, as it'll cost at least 66% less without, and I didn't find much use in having a live example to perform what I could see, as the passage is always written in the book anyhow.

I wouldn't recommend starting with Rimsky as he uses a much less pedagogical approach to teaching orchestration, and some of the terms and instrumentations are dated, being a late XIXth century article.

I'd also recommend Shoenberg's Theory of Harmony, but once again this was created not for educational purposes, but rather as a collection of researches onto which his pupils could read on.

Lastly, I've been using Sibelius for as long as I've ever written anything, and have only very recently started creating on other platforms such as Reason and FL. I also consider this a vital tool in my creation process, as I prefer having a visual look at the interface onto which every single theoretical aspect of my music can be very clearly shown.

Of course, it depends on people, but I find it absurd to not have 100% control on what is going on inside your song.

Hope that answered at least SOME of your questions, keep 'em coming if you have more! :P

Cheers,
Samuel Hebert

Thanks for the very detailed response!

I actually have read about half of Schoenberg's Theory of Harmony and enjoyed it immensely. I mean to finish the text in the future.

As far as DAWs, I love the fact that you can control so many fine details in FL as opposed to notation software. I use Finale to make sheet music for performers and enjoy it very much, but it's fantastic being able to control the velocity of each individual note in FL. They both really are vital tools.

For now, I don't have any other questions. Lol.

Yeah, even though I prefer the layout of a notation program, you just don't have the same amount of control over every single note played, and you certainly can't go very far audio processing-wise. but once again, it's definitely a much more efficient way to observe your score and get eveything fine-tuned composition-wise.

Thanks again for signaling interest, and good luck in this round!

Cheers,
Samuel Hebert