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Music, is this that simple?
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A lot of important processes stand behind the
sounds we hear as a final product. Bands are usually
constructed of 5 people: a vocalist, 2 guitarists, a bassist and a drummer. I
like comparing it to a 5-people relationship. 5 people connected emotionally,
having the same vision and the same goal, supporting each other, quarreling
with each other, convincing each other that one’s thought or idea is better than the other one and so on and
so forth… So many things to mention and it is only planting a musical seed
which has to outgrow from this state to something massive and powerful!
Once all the struggles and fights are put down, it is time
to materialize these ideas that are worked out in buckets of sweat and some bad
language mixed all together :) so a band goes to a record studio and starts
registering their music. No, no, it’s not that
simple! Take 1… WRONG! You’ve missed a note!
Again… Take 2… Have you ever heard about such a thing like a METRONOME?! Take
3… And it keeps on and on. Time which is required to fully record all the
tracks for an album varies from a band and it might be 1 week as well as 1
year.
Having all the recordings done, a music engineer is able
to start his work and mind you, this is one
of the most
important aspects of creating music. This person not only has to tinker
registered tracks but also has to fit all item so that a final effect is both
pleasant to listen to and (being outstanding nowadays is vital if a band wants
to be significant). There are loads of low quality or “nothing new to show”, or
“it was done once, or million times” songs. To give you a visualization of how
hard this job actually is, imagine 3 sets of 1000 elements puzzles mixed all
together and all of them are cut in the same way and present forests. The only
difference between these three sets is brightness of colors and you are the
only one who makes them stand out.
Seems to be ready to serve? Well, maybe it seems so but in
fact it’s just a prepared
dish. Everybody knows how important marketing is in numerous types of
businesses and it is no different in music industry. Music should be written
with a higher purpose. If it is so, then it should be shared among public
successfully to inspire them or simply to share an ideology of a band.
Anyway, no matter how difficult it might seem to be, as soon
as you have your CD in your own hands, physically, you will never forget that
feeling and you will have this kind of “lightness” in your body. The only thing
left to do is to supply promotors, radio
stations, the internet, friends, zoos,
kindergartens and the whole universe with your music and keeping your fingers
crossed that all the struggles, money, time, emotions and cups of coffee drunk
are not wasted :)
So any time you start to think about music, just take into
consideration this path which a musician has to go through in order to please
you with one’s sounds. :)
1. Have
you ever caught yourself on criticizing music for the sake of criticizing?
2. What
kind of music nurtures your soul the most?
3. Do you
know any other aspects of life that are equally complicated from the inside,
even though it seems to be easy? What are those?
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