Music Composition Tutorial - 03 Shorts Longs and Rhythmic Motifs

Sometimes you get bogged down in not having great rhythms just lying around. Here's a technique that can help you with that.

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I swear I'll have quality video recording equipment one of these days, maybe to go with my "in front of the camera" skills. XD

[khz]

10 years later & i'm just now finding this video? WTF. thank you!!!!

[jomesias]

Freaking awesome! I also suspect you mix in sequences for these short long patterns!
Very joe satrianiesque 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👍👍 sounds very pro, thx for the pro tip!

[brettthiner]

This is definitely my favorite one so far

[SiGhast]

1:58 You turned Beethoven into Candlemass!

[loominato]

I have no idea why you don't have like two hundred million subscribers. The thing I noticed about most (but not all) channels that have a lot of viewers is that they have some kind of background music, at a pretty low volume. You could put it between musical examples.

It seems to set the tone for the video in a very effective way. Even if the speaker is talking in a very monotonous way (and you are not, obviously!) if the music is very serious the video seems very serious and engaging (but just imagining without the music you can hear how boring it would be!).

You could experiment with what type of music to put there, and since you seem open to most genres, having one different genre (metal, rock, ambient, electronic, classical, jazz and so on) per video might be pretty cool.


Ok I'm rambling, but I **seriously** have no idea why you don't have two hundred million subscribers.

[dannyn]

So dude do this idea of long notes and short notes help making the melody ? Did not quite understand it

[izvarzone]

What about very short notes - short notes - long notes - very long notes