Make Composing Easier With 1 Rule

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Summary

TLDRIn hierdie video deel die spreker sy insig in hoe beperkings die kreatiewe proses van musiek komposisie kan bevorder. Deur die woorde van Igor Stravinsky aan te haal, beklemtoon hy dat die stel van beperkings vryheid vergemaklik en die kreatiewe gees bevry. Die spreker bespreek hoe oorweldigende keuses in 'n moderne digitale klankomgewing tot besluitmoegheid kan lei, en hoe die stel van perke die fokus kan verskerp. In plaas daarvan om deur eindelose opsies oorweldig te voel, verander die taak na 'n uitdagende spel. Drie praktiese voorbeelde word gegee: om die aantal instrumente te beperk, om die aantal note te beperk, en om musiek te skryf deur slegs gratis instrumente gedurende lockdown te gebruik. Hierdie benaderings maak die komposisieproses lekkerder en bring vars verrassings in die musiek na vore.

Takeaways

  • 🎵 Beperk instrumente vir meer kreatiwiteit.
  • 🎹 Stel perke op jou note vir nuwe harmonieë.
  • 🧩 Maak komposisie 'n prettige uitdaging.
  • 📜 Gebruik Igor Stravinsky se benadering.
  • 🎤 Skep verrassende musikale teksture.
  • 🎧 Besluitmoegheid kom van te veel keuses.
  • 🔒 Gebruik beperkings tydens lockdown effektief.
  • 🎸 Gratis instrumente kan kreatief benut word.
  • 🗝️ Beperkings bevry die kreatiewe gees.
  • 🥇 Beperkings kan tot unieke kreatiwiteit lei.

Timeline

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    Ek komponeer dikwels musiek vir verskillende projekte, en een reël wat ek volg, help my om beter musiek te skryf met minder stres en meer kreatiwiteit: Hoe meer beperkings jy stel, hoe meer vryheid kry jy. Hierdie idee is geïnspireer deur die komponis Igor Stravinsky wat gesê het dat meer beperkings die gees bevry van sy kettings. Wanneer ek hierdie reël vergeet, word skryfwerk moeilik en oorweldigend. Onlangs, terwyl ek vir 'n kliënt geproduseer het, het ek vasgeval met 'n oorweldigende verskeidenheid van opsies in 'n moderne digitale oudio-werkstasie. Deur beperkings te stel soos om die aantal instrumente, note of skaal te beperk, word die kreatiewe proses 'n opwindende uitdaging in plaas van 'n oorweldigende probleem. Sover as instrumente betref, is die beperking tot 'n paar instrumente iets wat ek gesien het in die musiek van groot komponiste soos snaarkwartette of trio's, wat dikwels met minder instrumente werk vir meer kreatiewe klank.

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Video Q&A

  • Wat is die hoofreël wat in die video bespreek word?

    Hoe meer beperkings jy stel, hoe meer vryheid kry jy.

  • Wie het hierdie reël oorspronklik uitgespreek?

    Die legendariese komponis Igor Stravinsky.

  • Waarom is dit nuttig om beperkings te stel tydens musikale komposisie?

    Beperkings help om besluitmoegheid te verminder en maak die kreatiewe proses meer speel en uitdagend.

  • Hoe het die spreker beperkings toegepas in sy werk?

    Deur die aantal instrumente, note en ander kreatiewe uitdagings te beperk.

  • Wat is 'n voorbeeld van 'n kreatiewe beperking wat die spreker gebruik het?

    Om musiek te komponeer met slegs gratis instrumente beskikbaar gedurende isolasie of lockdown.

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    I compose a lot of music for different
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    projects there's one rule I use that
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    helps me write better music with less
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    stress less overwhelm more fun and
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    creativity when I forget this rule which
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    is too often writing gets harder more
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    overwhelming less creative not so fun so
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    I'm going to show you that rule plus
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    three different examples of how I've
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    used it and how you can use it too so
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    here's the rule the more limits you set
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    the more freedom you get this comes from
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    the legendary composer Igor Stravinsky
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    he said The more constraints one impose
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    es the more one frees oneself of the
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    chains that shackle the spirit and he
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    goes even further he says my freedom
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    will be so much the greater and more
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    meaningful the more narrowly I limit my
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    field of action and the more I surround
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    myself with obstacles and this is one of
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    the greatest composers of the 20th
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    century so the reason I'm making this is
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    cuz I was producing for a client
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    recently and I was getting overwhelmed
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    by the scope of the project you know I
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    work in a modern Daw I've got literally
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    hundreds if not thousands of instruments
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    to choose from it sometimes feels like
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    when I scroll through my library I just
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    have infinite options and in reality
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    it's just too much what winds up
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    happening is you get decision fatigue
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    and it can make a project feel really
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    overwhelming and daunting so the answer
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    is to set limits this Narrows your focus
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    down instead of thinking how do I make
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    this song with infinity options it
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    becomes how do I make this song with
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    only four instruments or with only these
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    notes or with only these plugins and
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    then the whole creative act becomes this
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    fun challenge or problem to solve rather
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    than an overwhelming obst obstacle to
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    overcome so let me walk you through
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    three ways that I've used limitations
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    recently in my own music and how you can
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    do it too the first limit is limit your
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    instruments I find it interesting that
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    so many of the great composers wouldn't
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    mainly write just for orchestra and I
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    think it's so tempting for amateur
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    composers to always want to write for
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    full massive Orchestra but the great
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    composers were so often writing for very
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    few instruments string quartets or trios
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    or quintets just three four five
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    instruments I remember talking with
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    Austin wintery and he says I'm composing
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    my next game score for four tubers I
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    said why four tubers and he said cuz I
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    want to and I sort of get that because
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    when you create these constraints or
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    limitations it makes the rest of the
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    creative act a lot more fun how do I
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    make this game score work with just four
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    tubers so here's how I used it I had to
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    write this arrangement of In The Bleak
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    Midwinter at Christmas Carol for only
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    three High voices and weirdly I found
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    this much more fun than when I've
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    written Coral music for eight voices or
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    16 voices writing for just three voices
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    creates all these mini challenges you
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    know how do I create Harmony and Melody
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    from only three voices how do you create
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    motion and momentum from three voices
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    and there are other things like how do I
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    make sure each voice gets to sing one
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    verse and then how do I smoothly change
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    key so that here the alto can sing a
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    verse in her range how many different
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    textures can I create with just three
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    lines I loved finding this one for the
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    final verse where it goes
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    [Music]
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    I guarantee I wouldn't have come up with
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    that kind of texture or something nearly
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    as nice if I'd been writing for 16
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    voices and writing in this way also
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    created more surprises for me it
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    reminded me of the beautiful Simplicity
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    that you can create from just three
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    lines like if you listen to this ending
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    [Music]
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    that all comes from limiting your scope
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    if I hadn't limited it that would never
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    have been written I'll put the whole
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    piece on my channel in case you want to
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    listen to that or if you want to perform
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    it write to me you know I'd love that
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    the next way I impose limits on my
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    composing is by limiting the number of
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    notes limit the scale so I wanted to
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    write something huge and orchestral you
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    know shamefully I actually never
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    finished this project because real life
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    got in the way but in order to set a
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    limit I decided to limit how many notes
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    I was allowed to use in the scale this
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    was inspired by Alan Silvestri I've been
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    studying his score to Back to the Future
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    and I loved how he would use the
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    octatonic scale in action sequences and
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    I wrote them on a piece of paper so I
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    think it was E F G A B flat C CSH and
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    dsh and I wasn't allowed to use any
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    other notes and I was amazed at the
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    harmonies and chords and progressions
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    and key changes that you can come up
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    with when you're only using eight notes
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    and that limitation made composing a
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    whole lot more fun it made it like a
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    game like a challenge you know you're
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    problem solving it's no longer
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    overwhelming but it becomes a fun
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    constraint so here's a little snippet of
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    how far you can go with just eight notes
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    so the next kind of limitation I would
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    call A Creative challenge or a creative
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    limitation Challenge and you can go wild
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    with what kind of limits you set here so
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    during covid I was literally locked in a
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    friend's house for months but the cool
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    thing was her downstairs was filled with
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    really interesting instruments so I
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    thought what if I compose something
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    using only her instruments plus any
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    other free instruments that other people
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    have created during Co and so I looked
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    through websites like piano book to find
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    free instruments that were created
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    during lockdown so I wasn't limiting the
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    number of instruments I was using I
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    wasn't limiting the number of notes I
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    could use it was a creative limit create
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    music using only the free things that I
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    have around me in isolation and that
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    made the whole thing so much more fun
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    and it also created a really cool piece
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    of content that did pretty well on my
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    Instagram
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    so that's the rule and that's just three
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    of infinite ways that you can use this
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    rule so let me know in the comments if
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    you have other cool ideas or constraints
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    that you could use to make your music
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    more creative and that's what I'm going
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    to do now I'm going to create some
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    constraints to make my current project
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    more fun creative and less overwhelming
Tags
  • Musiekkomposisie
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Kreatiewe Beperkings
  • Besluitmoegheid
  • Kreatiwiteit
  • Instrumente Beperking
  • note Beperking
  • Speel Pret
  • Digitale Klankomgewing
  • Musikale Uitdagings