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Post by Alec Weesner on Jun 20, 2018 6:12:33 GMT -8
Hi everyone! I have been interested lately in composing ambient tracks and I was wondering what suggestions or tricks have worked for you when writing these pieces. Recently, I created this ambient song, "Sign of The Coming Judgement", and I've heard that I sound a bit like Jeremy Soule. Enjoy listening! Sign of The Coming Judgement |
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Post by Seroquel on Jun 20, 2018 10:10:57 GMT -8
Hi everyone! I have been interested lately in composing ambient tracks and I was wondering what suggestions or tricks have worked for you when writing these pieces. Recently, I created this ambient song, "Sign of The Coming Judgement", and I've heard that I sound a bit like Jeremy Soule. Enjoy listening! Sign of The Coming Judgement People have told me I'm pretty good at ambient, so I will give you tips in a bit, busy at this current moment. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 12:48:12 GMT -8
I'm far from a pro when it comes to making any sort of music. But i have made the odd ambient track here and there. From my experience it can help to use various natural sound effects like rain, thunder, wind, birds, ocean etc.. depending on the feel you are going for. It can be really subtle too but just adds another element for the listener help immerse themselves within the music. One great example i think is Blade Runner Blues by Vangelis. The phased noise pad with the cutoff reduced creates a nice atmosphere that almost sounds like rain and creates a great background for the melody to sit on top of without detracting from it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RScZrvTebeA |
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Post by Alec Weesner on Jun 20, 2018 13:04:58 GMT -8
I'm far from a pro when it comes to making any sort of music. But i have made the odd ambient track here and there. From my experience it can help to use various natural sound effects like rain, thunder, wind, birds, ocean etc.. depending on the feel you are going for. It can be really subtle too but just adds another element for the listener help immerse themselves within the music. One great example i think is Blade Runner Blues by Vangelis. The phased noise pad with the cutoff reduced creates a nice atmosphere that almost sounds like rain and creates a great background for the melody to sit on top of without detracting from it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RScZrvTebeAIndeed. Pedal tones, like in the example you linked, are often a key link of ambient tracks. Also, I've noticed that melody lines seem to be more free-form, and don't often repeat themselves. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 13:15:25 GMT -8
I'm far from a pro when it comes to making any sort of music. But i have made the odd ambient track here and there. From my experience it can help to use various natural sound effects like rain, thunder, wind, birds, ocean etc.. depending on the feel you are going for. It can be really subtle too but just adds another element for the listener help immerse themselves within the music. One great example i think is Blade Runner Blues by Vangelis. The phased noise pad with the cutoff reduced creates a nice atmosphere that almost sounds like rain and creates a great background for the melody to sit on top of without detracting from it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RScZrvTebeAIndeed. Pedal tones, like in the example you linked, are often a key link of ambient tracks. Also, I've noticed that melody lines seem to be more free-form, and don't often repeat themselves. Yes that is very true about the melody lines. I guess to create more emotion they are improvised like if someone was just playing what they feel as they are being inspired by a certain emotion or visual piece they are accompanying. But having great chord structure to change the emotion in parts can make a huge difference too. Here is a piece i wrote a few years ago that has quite an ambient feel to it. I found using slowed down arpeggiated rhythms can be a nice substitute for standard percussive sounds. Also repeating an arpeggiated melody with different chord changes can create more subtle mood changes i found too. soundcloud.com/tyvanware/silver-82 |
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Post by Chris on Jun 20, 2018 14:05:55 GMT -8
I'll copy-paste my response from the other forum: Well, composition-wise, sounds like you've got it down pretty well. Drones, synth chords, etc. But for me, when I think ambient, I think less "musical" but still resembling music. The easiest way to create ambient sounds to take any sort of sound source, and run it into a HUGE reverb, no pre-delay, long decay time and no dry signal sent to the master what so ever. Also, take some audio from a sound source, and stretch it out. You can also reverse sounds. Not to hijack your thread, but to demonstrate the tips I'm talking about, I used all of them in one of my old ambient tracks I created for Halloween soundcloud.com/chrisschmidtcomposer/a-witchs-welcome |
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Post by nenopro on Aug 20, 2018 13:05:00 GMT -8
The tip about stretching audio is very useful. Never thought of it.
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