# 1. Music

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# 1.1. Instruments

  • Clarinet - wodden flute with metalwork to enhance trills effect
  • French Horn
  • Triangle - solo 💯
  • cello - 4 strings
    • A D G C
    • notes get higher when we move down
    • fretless instrument - use scales

# 1.2. Music Notes

# 1.3. How to become a Music Composer

  • Melody first, background music later
  • Background music first and melody later
  • Chords Progression
    1. C
    2. Dm
    3. Em
    4. F
    5. G
    6. Am
    7. Bdim
    8. See you again - Charlie puth - 6 1 4 1 or Gm Bb Eb Bb
    9. 6 4 1 5 - Faded - Alan walker
  • Parts of soung
    • Intro - 5 seconds
    • Hook
    • Predictability
    • Dominant musiccal instrument sound

# 1.4. Sound Effects - FX

  • Sound Engineering
  • Sound Basics
  • in movies, video games, explosions, artifically created sounds of thunderstorm

Sound mixer via hardware or softwares

  • Began in 1940
    • Earliest effect was delay
    • Wow effect
  • Create, recod sound loops and overlay with other sounds
  • High pass filter
  • sound gain
  • compressor - compression ration 3:1
    • even out the volume level of audio track
    • trim and adjust high treble sounds
    • multiband compressor - 4, 6 band compressor
  • Adjust deplay of reverb (digitally added reverb), then EQ it
    • reverb with delay can create echo effect
    • ping - pong effect
  • Pitch Shift
  • EQ
    • We always do not want the full frequency sounds of all the instruments in our record
    • control frequency spectrum of audio
    • Bring the best out of each instrument
    • No mud, clash b/w instrument sounds
    • Add the right color and mood

# 1.4.1. FX Tools

  1. Audacity s/w
    1. Remove b/g noise
    2. breathy noise
  2. MAckie
  3. GarageBand - iOS

# 1.5. Music Genres

  • Musical tribes
  • Also exists in pairs, pro and alter vesion
    • Electronic | Organic
    • Pop / Rock | Classical

# 1.6. Projects

# 1.7. Questions

  • How to figure out the instruments used in a song

# 1.8. Resources

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