Authentic Creation For Pop, Hip HOp, and EDM Music Producers
Bob Habersat
Shedthemusic
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What is Authentic Pop music creation?
Look at some Survey Answers
Intentionality and the Creative Feedback Loop
Modalities of Creative Capture
MIDI Input
Sequencer
Piano Roll
Sample Manipulation
Audio Recording
MIDI Input
Performance based modality
Pros
Real Time Creative Capture
Creates skill based intrinsic motivation
Allows for live performance
Cons
Takes time to cultivate
Requires ability to play with a click
Sequencer Based
Pros
Easy to see, easy to understand, easy to use
Great for elementary and middle school
Cons
Short delay in creative feedback
creative control Constrained to the grid
No expression input
Piano Roll
Pros
Granular input
Visual
Precise control of pitch, rhythm, and expression
Cons
Requires practice to read
Iteration requires auralization
Sample Manipulation
Pros
It’s the sound!
Makes you listen differently.
Cons
legal
Needs to be augmented by a second modality of input
Audio Capture
Works with each modalitiy
Offloads creative RAM
Verbalized instrumentals helps with Conceptualizing.
Evens the playing field for collaboration
Multiple Input Modalities
The adaptable producer
Easy referencing
Pop Tune Implementation
Write a verse/chorus pop song like a piano player
Shape Playing
Top lining & Lyrics
Hip Hop Implementation
Sample Manipulation
Legal issues
Coproduction
Keep it clean
EDM Implementation
Working in the box
Effects & Automation
Melodic Development
Idioms
Available Curricula
Production Through Performance (MIDI input focused)
Junior Music Producers (sequencer and Piano roll) JOIN THE BETA!
Rewire Theory (midi input and jamming)
Fretboard Fundamentals (songwriting on guitar)