/MLP/ Plays - This Time For Sure Edition

>>29603048
Theorist here again. I've been wondering if you guys were coming back. Have any need for a theorist?

>>29603182
doubtful, got any music to share?

>>29603251
Honestly, as a theorist, I'm a terrible composer

>>29603344
Hey, new to music making stuff, what's a theorist ?

>>29603354
My job is basically to figure out how music works, and why it works the way it does.

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Updates and whatever else:

>http://vocaroo.com/i/s0yYit9ipDCy

>A bunch of parody lyrics in this thread from A lyricist: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/29213435

>https://clyp.it/l0rbfvvo

>https://clyp.it/wz0dj3fa

>http://vocaroo.com/i/s0wfb8jHGmWG and https://clyp.it/y4mttu1s

>https://a.clyp.it/alwq31m4.mp3

>https://clyp.it/rz5iue5d#

>http://vocaroo.com/i/s1mB5Rz7HxK9

>https://clyp.it/y1desibz

>https://clyp.it/ssmtbd15

>https://clyp.it/s2uia2te

>http://www.mediafire.com/file/fu0jouc1u1ilzfv/Normlpeople.mp3

>http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ozAF5jjM9B

>https://clyp.it/ue2gh10z

>Sreets: https://clyp.it/fzm0zr2q
What do you all think so far? Acoustic guitars still need to be re-recorded. Are there any anons here that have an acoustic and a decent mic who want to play? Needs lyrics/singers too, though people were working on that.

>Pone Star: https://clyp.it/ksk0ekrc
In terms of the instrumental, all that's left is adding those record scratching and similar noises. I was thinking of using sampled voices from the show or something. Is there a synthfag rip ;_;7 here who wants to take a swing at that?

>Cheesy love song: https://clyp.it/vyl3bga0 (very much demo quality)
A lyricist working on lyrics and vocals.

>TRR Metal
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/28877394/#q28877765
Anoridan's metal thing. Needs vocals. Lyrics are about changelings.

>Welcome To The Show Metal Cover: https://clyp.it/pjjbr01m
Did this a year ago. W-we totally have female vocals, right? The original song's vocals can't be used because of the way it was mixed. Need new ones.

early save

safety bump of great interest

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How about a good ol' timey song in the style of Constant Sorrow as performed by the Soggy Bottom Boys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ5BFivMwxU

>>29603048
Lol, that is not how it works. Most of the MLP random works in the game forums themselves.

Unless you are an active modder or an active programmer, you are pretty much just promoting others people material, which it is not bad but it cannot stay alive for too long.

I mean, take for example those 2 MLP chat games for browsers. Those guys were here for months and make their game boom at some point.

If you want help in something just saying, like testing or something. We could use some training and programming just for fun and giggles. No goyim.

>>29606386
In other words, I didn't read the title. Lol wrong thread

>>29603481
Hell yeah!

boomp

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since someone lost them all, here they are again

FUCK YEAH, I LOVE THIS SHIT!

Give me something funny to put on a mugen stage based on /mlp/.

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s14NXkSVhAvf
I threw a bit of RD's theme from Fighting Is Magic in the middle.

>>29603385
Why does music sound good when slowed to ~75% speed or sped up by ~20%?
Why does the same piece of music, played at different speeds, evoke different emotions?
Why is stopping some notes short important to the overall feel of a piece? E.g: in a composition, I found that having the notes that are off-beat shorter than the ones on-beat by a small fraction helps the piece bounce along. The piece doesn't work if all applicable notes are, say, crotchets. I would describe the off-beat notes as staccato but it had to be a specific length shorter and not any old short length.
Why are pentatonic scales so popular? You even find them in the far east.
Can you explain the correlation between people's taste in music and their surroundings/upbringing? I heard that people's preference for things being in tune is an acquired taste that's not reproducible with people unfamiliar with western music.
How do I drums?

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Gonna post a few little original chord progressions that you guitarfags can play easialy and get those creative juices flowing.

because i know how hard it is to come up with these little bastards

Am - C - G - D
F - E - E(no bar, on the fifth fret, play all strings, let's call this my Eup5 because idk what it really is.) and then to Em
Am - E - B(make sure to be quicker on this chord than the rest, it's like the transition chord in this one) - E
Then a real hard cookie.
G7 - Am7g - Em - Dsus - Cad9

all of these are fun to appregiate and can be written in most time schemes, play with those and see what feels good in the chord progressions i suppose.

as an addition all of these sound so much better when you capo the fifth.

>>29607084
>Why does music sound good when slowed to ~75% speed or sped up by ~20%?
That's a subjective answer. Some people might not like that. Same way if I asked why does music tuned to A432 sound better than A440? Answer is that it doesn't. It just sounds different, and most people prefer the slightly darker tone of A432 to A440. Then again, most people can't tell unless there's a side by side comparison. Even then. It's subtle.
>Why does the same piece of music, played at different speeds, evoke different emotions?
Tempo is just one dimension of music. Adding speed creates energy, and slowing things down adds weight. That's not an absolute rule. Slowing things down enough makes them feel sluggish, and ponderous, and speeding things up to a high degree may be frantic. That's why your whimsical music is quite quick. There's also the association of the original music. Slow down a recording enough, and it all sounds eerie and strange, and speed it up to a ridiculous degree, and it all sounds comical. If you think about metal music, and think "damn, that's heavy" part of that is the tempo. Heavier music is slower, so as to allow the chords to settle, and let their weight be felt.
>Why is stopping some notes short important to the overall feel of a piece?
Kinda like tempo, the length of a note is an aspect of time. Space between notes creates lightness and energy. If you've ever played in a wind band, or orchestra, you will 99.999% of the time be told to play light when playing fast. If you don't give your notes enough space, the music is going to drag. As for playing on the offbeats, those want to push to the downbeats. Downbeats are strong and stable, especially beat 1. The upbeat of the last beat in a measure is the weakest, and has the most desire to move to 1. Think about how jazz and other music that swings manipulate the offbeats to make the tune lay back.

>>29607084
>Why are pentatonic scales so popular? You even find them in the far east.
It's ingrained into human biology. That's pretty much all I can say. Also, not all Asian music is based off the pentatonic scale. Some traditional Chinese music is built of two scales where one divides the octave into five symmetrical intervals, and the other into seven symmetrical intervals. For comparison, western music divides the octave up geometrically. If you find traditional Chinese music, it sounds horribly out of tune to our western ears.
>Can you explain the correlation between people's taste in music and their surroundings/upbringing? I heard that people's preference for things being in tune is an acquired taste that's not reproducible with people unfamiliar with western music.
Taste has a lot to do with upbringing. The more you listen to a certain kind of music, the more you understand it and its language. This is why when people say "music is a universal language" I roll my eyes. Nobody hears the same piece the exact same way, especially people from radically different cultures, though people that experience the music through the same lens can have the same reaction to it. The 2nd movement of the Pathetique sonata isn't going make everyone cry. Listening to big band music isn't going to make everyone want to dance, and part of that is that not everyone picks up on the language in this music, and that's something that can be worked on and improved by exposing yourself to the music, and letting your ears soak it all in, but what is a lot harder to work on is the culture that shapes people's context for the music. Gregorian chant may be a quaint artifact today, but back then, was an inextricable aspect of worship, and would have stirred many emotions in the people of the time.
>How do I drums?
Git gud

>If you find traditional Chinese music
If you can, that is. It's hard to find, because their instruments have been tuned to equal temperament for a while now

>>29607595
>Also, not all Asian music is based off the pentatonic scale
I was wrong here. The five tone scale they used was pentatonic. Though, I'm still certain that their seven step octave is not analogous to the western diatonic scale

>>29607662
Gamelan from Indonesia uses scales similar to what's described, though I don't know if it's the same as what the Chinese used

>>29607509
https://clyp.it/5iokoret#

The first few chords would make a nice section

>>29607590
>Why does music sound good when slowed to ~75% speed or sped up by ~20%?
>Adding speed creates energy, and slowing things down adds weight
>There's also the association of the original music
I know realise the first question was nonsense because it's asking why music "sounds good" at different speeds. It assumes that the normal speed is an absolute.
In short, the first two question were pretty much the same.

>That's why your whimsical music is quite quick
It's a bit too quick for its own good but I made it in a short-lived vain attempt of thinking I could make better music for 1993's Doom.

>Space between notes creates lightness and energy
That sort of answers what I was wondering about.

>Think about how jazz and other music that swings manipulate the offbeats to make the tune lay back
I think I got my terminology wrong: what I meant was playing the 2 and 4, beats of a steady 4-4 beat, shorter than the 1 and 3.
I don't know my up and downbeats.

>>29607595
>It's ingrained into human biology. That's pretty much all I can say
Oh bother.

Completely lost on the rest of the paragraph.

>>29607662
>It's hard to find, because their instruments have been tuned to equal temperament for a while now
Not only that but I've found it hard to find recordings of far-eastern folk songs.
In fact, I tried looking up a drinking song heard in Black & White 2 and the only reliable source I've found is Hanggai performing it.
Also, I'll have a look for that seven-step scale you mention.

>>29608216
I approximated the scales for future reference a while back.
Ignoring being "out of tune", the full Pelog scale is the Phrygian mode while the Slendro scale is a minor pentatonic with a natural sixth/flattened seventh/I don't know what it's called; it'll be an A instead of a Bb in a C minor pentatonic.
Also, I read somewhere that Gamelan was, at least in part, imported from India and China... although that's likely just hearsay from a YouTube comments section.

>>29610147
>I think I got my terminology wrong: what I meant was playing the 2 and 4, beats of a steady 4-4 beat, shorter than the 1 and 3.
Western meter relies on weak and strong stresses to push the music forward. In 4/4, beats 1 and 3 are the stronger, 1 being the strongest, with 2 and 4 being weaker, 4 being the weakest beat. Alternating what gets emphasized gives music its push and pull, and music that stresses every beat exactly the same gives feels bland. I've talked to theorists that think this is tied into the spoken language. Western languages tend to rely on placing the right emphasis on words, but in some other countries, particularly some slavic ones, the first syllable of sentences, which explains why they have little problem with music that is in odd meters, like 7/8, 5/8, 13/16, etc. and switching between them on the fly.

Don't quote me on the language bit, I don't know a terrible amount about slavic music, nor do I have experience speaking the language. It's more food for thought.

>Oh bother.
It is. You could try to explain it through a theory of fifths, but the thing shows up everywhere, including places that have had no contact with western music. Hell, even infants respond to the pentatonic scale, despite taking more time to have responses to the music of their culture.

>>29610688
bumpity

>>29611150
bump

>>29611495
night, thread

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>tfw listening to a song from the first album rn
holy shit, I just realized how great it is that this exists
I mean, an imageboard for small colorful equines on 4chan made an album that isn't complete and utter shit
woah

>>29611924
which song was it anon?

better fucking be just for kicks.

>>29612063
Best song

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Page ten pentatonic nonsense:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1lPNE132CHB

>>29611866
bump

>>29613715
nice