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The Lobby / mods competitions

« on: January 25, 2007, 21:12:02 »

may seem a dumb question, but how am I aware of Mods competitions around? I don't mean "HivelyTracker Compo"; it seems to be about a specific tracker...    I mean mods in general, to see what's the best tune.

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Tracking / Ten tips for beginner trackers

« on: August 30, 2006, 19:47:15 »

If one can track good tunes in a few days, that's extremely good for him/her, but I doubt that a few beginning artists can manage to learn to track even as soon as Eagle did. So if your tracking doesn't seem to work in a week or a month or a year, but you're still having fun, then keep on doing it!

True, effort and insistence on this is what let you improve.
 
I remember the first time I tracked.  It was a couple of months after I discovered the tracking world, shown to me by one of my friends.  I was really eager to track my first song  (a cover, actually).  
I didn't have any clue about this stuff; I was only given Modedit 2.0 and I went straightly for creating my first MOD. I thought I did it pretty cool  because I was really satisfied at that moment with the results.  

Neverheless, though I wanted to track more songs after this one, I found myself without a "hook", I didn't know what to track.  I did track more songs, but I didn't feel quite at all proud of these songs. It took me some time to track something that really satisfied me likewise or more than my first mod.   If I hadn't put more effort in training myself in tracking and gaining insights from other author's songs,  I wouldn't have gone on tracking.

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Tracking / Re: How do YOU track a tune ? (Walkthru?)

« on: August 02, 2006, 03:00:52 »

I haven't found my style of tracking yet and I'm always starting off on different parts (like: melody, drums, bass, chords etc.) of the tune every time. Do you think that i care to much and should just go and track like HELL!!!, or do you guys have any tips on how to start composing a tune.

 - Do u choose wich samples to use in the early stage of composing ?

I don´t know why you are looking for "a style". Perhaps, having no style could be your style.  I don´t follow any procedure when traking.  Bass, Drums or strings first, it´s the same.  If you like the melody or rythm your coming up with, your are probably going to succeed in developing it, and compose an entire song.     I don´t know, that´s what I think.  And I choose the samples along the development of the song.

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Tracking / Ten tips for beginner trackers

« on: August 02, 2006, 02:33:03 »

Thanks oto, I really appreciate your mentioning it!

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Tracking / Ten tips for beginner trackers

« on: July 27, 2006, 18:35:39 »

I have no musical background.  I still have been composing for many years.

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The Lobby / Mods' Styles?

« on: June 19, 2006, 21:14:44 »

Thanks jojo.

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The Lobby / Mods' Styles?

« on: June 19, 2006, 21:06:56 »

Well, I don´t have any Idia how to calatogue my songs according to Styles.  e.g. I conclude a song, I guess that it could be an Ambient Song, and that´s the way I catalogue it.  

Therefore I would really appreciate some definitions about styles like Ambient, Experimiental, Chip tunes and so on.  

I was not able to find any brief information/definition about Mods Styles on the ModArchive,... If anyone knows were to find it, thanks a lot.  

(I´m not asking for what-you-think-they-are definitions. I want something conventionally stablished)

I guess providing brief definitions of styles on the Modarchive would be interesting for us, trackers.

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Tracking / The 10 most common tracker mistakes

« on: June 19, 2006, 03:04:31 »

...just trying posting here for the first time.  

I find Eagle´s article interesting, and I'm listening to some of his songs right now (I´m not gonna mention them; no permission.)

Notwithstanding, I agree with John_Marwin's ´bit of critique´, though I have into account this is a for-Newbies-tracking articles.  

I've just also listened to a pairof Rikimbo's.  And I think Rikimbo's tracking is not bad; if he considers he makes the mistakes listed in the article. Are they mistakes really?

In my opinion, some aspects mentioned in the article like loudness or speed are not ones to be strictly ´arbitrated´by anyone.

I mean, from Eagle's music subjectivity the article is ok.  But I would rather specify "This is my opinion" on top of it.    Hope I´m being clear.