Using STRESSFUL rhythms to make RELAXING music

Check out this video I made with @SignalsMusicStudio to learn an amazing rhythm exercise!:

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[BenLevin]

I'm teaching one-on-one lessons if you want to work on your music with me!

[SignalsMusicStudio]

Ben it was a privilege to work with you, and fun also! Thanks for the help and all the inspiration

[Sollys]

"As and experiment, think about what you've spent the most time learning, and try to hide it in your music rather than feature it front and center" Phenomenal advice!

[RTFosmark]

The dynamics test is a great tip! I’m going to try to play my hardest song as softly as I can.

[TheCastagne]

5:56 got a Reich kinda minimalistic vibe there, cool!

[kjetilbirkeland]

Steve Reich has some music like this - difficult to play but relaxing to listen to. Some pieces that come to mind are Nagoya Marimbas, Piano Phase and Mallet Quartet

[MoeThermodynamics]

Love having you back, Ben. Can't afford your courses or private classes but your videos are always incredibly inspiring and innovative. Thank you so much for coming back!

[flake]

Love how much you've grown as a producer and tutor Ben, you've always been incredible and will continue to do incredible things. It seems lately you're just in a perfect stride for insight and content and I'm here for it.

Thanks mate, respect the hell out of you and your work.

[JakHart]

Ben, I've been using your lessons lately to write with my pocket operators, and my "music" has become even stranger than I could ever imagine.

Thank you for that.

It should be interesting, incorporating this video into what I'm doing.

[ChordLord]

Some moments in that really sounded like they were straight off In Rainbows, well done!

[herrvierkoetter]

2 step forward and one step back. A good concept for a composition/improvisation.

[fugithegreat]

I love this so much! So much so called "relaxing" music out there is just so simple and repetitive that I find it distracting (and boring), whereas this really is relaxing but gives my brain something interesting to latch onto at the same time. Lovely work!

[shentakuki]

The new 9/8 thing is so good! Sounds very much like Philip Glass

[Arashinx]

This HAS to be somewhere I can listen to when I study. It was able to bring me stillness and calmness while sufficing the needs of my easily distracted brain that insists on thinking of multiple things at the same time

I need more of this in my life

[jackclay]

Ben i want a full version of the relaxing piece so bad <33

[ajadrew]

Came here from Mr Signals channel & you know why - great tune as well!!

[RyanBeTheName]

Thanks for the relaxed playing advice!

[alexanderkonczal]

comment for the algorithm. thanks for expanding my horizons.

[anomymouse]

Ben commented that we should try to hide a difficult technique / passage that learned to master. This allows to generate contrasts, dynamics and differences between song sections and songs. To me that is critical for music.
Furthermore, playing same tricky thing over and over gives an impression that it is the only thing you know. Playing it once gives an impression that "Dude has tons of tricks, but he does not bother to show them all".

[Ashley-jpnn]

It’s somehow relaxing and super intense at the same time <3