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Get Muddy

Lesson 23 from: Music Theory for Electronic Musicians 2: Minor Keys and More

J. Anthony Allen

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23. Get Muddy

Lesson Info

Get Muddy

Okay. Last thing about baselines. Um, this is a pretty simple one. Uh, do not put chords in your baseline. And by cords, I mean more than one note. Bass lines are always a single note, and I'm going to tell you why. The reason is too many notes in this low frequency it turns to mud. That would be the technical term for what happens. Mud. It's not really a technical term. Um, but, uh, let's say I added a, um the third to this if this was a cord adding the sea on top of this a would be great. Um, right. I'd be basically creating an A minor chord, and it would sound often, but because we're in such a low frequency for this, um, this is just gonna sound gnarly, right? There's it takes away from the baseline. So baselines are always one note, um, one note at a time, I should say so. We never put chords in Ah, in a baseline. And that's why now, when you get into sound design stuff, this is what I was mentioning earlier in the first video in the segment. When you get into sound design stuff, ...

you'll figure out why, Um, we don't do this and you can make you can craft sounds that have, like, ah, lot of kind of a lot of different pitches in them that happened in the low range. But you're you can do it in a way that keeps it from, like, turning into mud like this. Um, let me just play like, one long held note here. So if I play these two notes, this is just a minor third, we ought toe like the sound of this, but it's just too much stuff too low. And the frequencies get all tied together, and it just becomes a mess. So one note at a time in your baselines, Too much stuff in the low range, and it just turns the mud. So, um, if I was to move this note up inactive, it will sound fairly interesting. That's an okay sound, cause they're they're far enough away to where they don't get all Mudede together. And when I'm up in this higher range, if I put a note above it, it sounds fine because I'm in a higher range. It's that lower range where everything just gets all gnarly when it's all put together. So, um, that's all I wanted to point out in this. Ah, quick little nugget of a video. So, um yeah, that's it. Okay, let's move on to another analysis, okay?

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