October 3, 2019
Why Didn't You Stop Me by Mitski on Be The Cowboy 2018
The song is short, engaging and climatic.
The main melodic elements are voice and synth. Voice takes the main melody on a verse, and the synth takes it back on the surrounding instrumentals until the end where it switches off between the guitar and synth.
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6yReUDu8b6PDNdLc0Z0djO
Oblique Strategy: Don't break the silence
Interface: Song Harp
The Song Harp can be used to accompany melodies or make a melody automatically by holding any of the 3 rows of 12 buttons on the left-hand side.
The chords can be held out or just used for bass notes.
The right hand side features two strum plates the player can strum to arpeggiate a chord. It allows for seamless chord progressions.
Ableton Make Melodies
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" | Learning Music (Beta)
Ableton's Making Melodies widget is very akin to how I start writing a song: with a visualization of the scale.
Know
The side lists the western 12 note chromatic scale notes in descending order on the left, there is a play button, and a the grid is either blue if it represents a note there or grey otherwise.
A slider allows the user to toggle between bpm values of 30 to 240.
The grid represents potential note values a 4 bar loop.
Feel
Hear a melody play and loop over and over
Do
Press play, the loop starts and continues, only changed when I toggle the slider, add notes, or take them away
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