Comments on: Fl Studio Music Theory Cheat Sheet

By: dan

dan — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:09:04 +0000

its circle of fifths, not cycle of fifths. if your going to get into the whole music theory thing you might as well get the lingo right ;-p. The video isn’t working anymore either. But, music doesn’t have rules, only guidelines. Whats “good” and whats “bad” is only your opinion. Your best bet for getting the sound you want is to completely and thoroughly learn your DAW software

By: admin

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:43:30 +0000

Bummer. Looks like he took this one down. I’ll keep this page up for awhile in case he puts it back up. Check out some of his other videos, they are really awesome:

http://www.tunetorials.com/category/acepincter/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:25:26 +0000

“We’re sorry, this video is no longer available.”
WTF?

By: Satty Batty

Satty Batty — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:40:33 +0000

I LOVE FRUITY LOOPS 8!!!!! WHHOOOOOOO

By: Calico_Stone

Calico_Stone — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:05:16 +0000

What up ace? I made a hot piano track using the scale and chords you used. Now i’m stuck. I really didn’t get how you drawing your scales. I just bit
you’re template but i don’t want my songs to sound the same. I need more. I won’t lose interest

By: Nik

Nik — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:17:17 +0000

Ace..Can you share the template to this tutorial? Thanks!

By: AcePincter

AcePincter — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:02:40 +0000

Stephanie – The program is FL Studio 7.
I agree with you, fit the chords to the melody or vice versa. That’s how songs are written. Demonstrated is a chord progression only, without much of a melody to speak of. I demonstrate a simple way to enhance a chord progression with either syncopated harmonic chords or some type of flourish.
While I wouldn’t recommend “drawing a squiggly line” as a primary method of composition, I think there are a lot of people who would like to use a technique like this to add some flair to a piece or complement their own melody with something to this effect.
And that’s all that I wanted. This is just one technique out of several thousand possibilities. It’s primarily for effect, not for real structural work.

By: AcePincter

AcePincter — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:54:50 +0000

Mat,
Relax a bit, ok? I keep my videos down to 10 minutes for good reason. The cycle of fifths, the triads, the dominants, tension/release, etc. will all be dealt with individually. If I covered all the necessary background in addition to this technique, I’d have an hour long video with too much talking and my viewers would lose interest. I’ll split them up so that well-trained viewers can skip to the methods they want to learn, rather than having to sit through 20 minutes of refresher course to get to the good bits. The technique I demonstrate stands on its own. Make your own tutorials if you don’t like mine. WMENCODER is free.

By: paulie walnuts

paulie walnuts — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:13:37 +0000

Funny how in this tutorial: http://www.tunetorials.com/fl-studio-music-theory-cheating-advanced/

Ace anticipates the very debate going on here – LOL.

“…buh buh buh i’m a minimalist composer! :waaahhh:”

By: mat

mat — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:43:48 +0000

yeah thanx justin for the update… I’m only saying that instead of showing an easy pseudo-system that does not even show consideration for voices movements and correct harmonical structures… the guy should AT LEAST talk about cycle of fifths and harmonical structures… Of course dodecaphonism has nothing to do here…
you know justin… it’s not because other systems exists that we should forget about the ones in place for several centuries… the ones that, historically, lead to the others… Don’t spit on Bach… i know you don’t… or do i?

no mat is not a professional musician nor a music theory teacher….

mat is… hum let’s see… mat is a modern-minimalist music composer whom,after years of studying music theory, counterpoint ear-training, orchestration etc., can recognize the benefit of hard work and deep introspecting into music theory to transcend the old and rusty cycle of fifths towards new “procÃ©dÃ©s”… but first, you have to be aware of its existence… let the light come… it’s so rewarding…

sorry to everybody who thought my previous post was hard… it was indeed… you may erase all of this and return to your occupations…. if Justin wishes to go forward with the debate, he can do it on one of my personal e-mails : jaidessentiments@hotmail.com

thanx… sorry again