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Post by thanatropism » Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 3:32 PM UTC

e_proxus wrote: post #100

thanatropism wrote: post #41

So I tried to mix two guitar-heavy songs that were bound to be incompatible and the results are kind of okay. Only one has vocals and it comes out way out of tune, but the general development of the songs fits well. It somewhat feels that this has more to do with the predictable sequence of verse/chorus/verse bars in pop music. But eh. The video is pretty good too: https://rave.dj/dBgxMMEtR9j-nw ---- Edit: Here's an…

I think the tracks needs to carefully picked by a human first, then it can turn out good. Too many chords and melodies in both tracks just creates a mess. Pure drum and beat tracks on top of melodies seems to be an easy combo: Covers on top of the original was a surprising success: https://rave.dj/ArkBRLe-216kdg https://rave.dj/Pty3Hy1Fum9Tag Pure drum tracks plus acapella: https://rave.dj/3K-oowQBpD09GA

But dissonant melodies can sound good; for a while bitonalism (some Debussy; most notoriously Darius Milhaud) was a compromise or a gateway drug to straight atonalism. My first example has vocals in a different key from the guitar, but the song structure works.

Basically mixing any pop songs work -- here's a very very very good one with Sepultura + Pet Shop Boys

https://rave.dj/SENYa64kow5OLg

... the point being that pop music is very very regular in its verse/chorus/verse narrative curve.