Everybody thank you for tuning in the garden sound 365 my name is Gardner and this is the show where we write music every day for a year we’ve got quite a few announcements to get through and if you’re not into listening to me talk if you’re just here For the episode the only part of the community you don’t want to grow with the show but that’s cool dollars five dollars cool it’s fine stuff you know I don’t know what that accent was you want to if you want to skip ahead you know you’re not here you think I look ugly You don’t care whatever I understand it’s cool fine let’s go ahead go to this this time Gardner is going to put what time it is right here don’t forget to do it but write don’t right here so I meant to put this out in the yesterday’s video but I got totally Sidetracked by marshmallow ended up making an entire episode about him which is more or less kind of what my brand is I you know what if I get completely distracted by something you know an idea if I get a good idea it totally derailed me so that’s kind of what happened Yesterday I meant to put out some announcements I’ve written down what I’m supposed to talk about over here on the board oh okay so a lot of people have asked what I’m going to do if I’m going to do any sort of a top 10 any sort of a best All of it so I’m putting out a best of 365 playlist alright I’m going to make it both a playlist on YouTube and something you can purchase on Bandcamp but in order to do that I need your votes so I want everybody to vote for their favorite song of all time and I’ve Made a Google Form it’s in the description down below I do have an announcement about next season and this is intentionally vague and anybody can conjecture about what they think this means feel free to start rumors next season will have another character there will be me but I’ll also have a co-host That’s all I’m saying this final part is for my patreon supporters and for everybody else who’s interested in supporting me on patreon I give away project files in a lot of music and other cool rewards like lessons I teach private lessons through patreon if anybody is interested in supporting me On patreon please go check that out it’s in the link below but I wanted to give you a little bit of transparency now the patreon following has grown a little bit and I’ve reached a specific amount of money since people are helping me on patreon I have that ability to pour it Back into my show now I’ve actually reached a threshold where I’m able to take a specific amount of cash each month and set it aside from making the show better that’s exactly what I was hoping to do with patreon there’s two things I’m doing with that money one of Those is opening a PA box so very soon I will have a Pio box or you all can send me things that you’d like me to put on the show you can send me coffee you can send me crazy instruments you can send me anything you’d like and I’m going to Be getting that going and that can be part of season two the other thing I’m using the patreon money for is a search engine optimization service I have picked up some software that has helped me get these videos out to a wider audience and I’ve seen a direct impact From using the software I’m going to do a video about it eventually in fact I’m going to do a lot more videos about how I actually get my songs and videos out there and how I edit the premiere and that sort of thing but I’m a person Foremost I am a composer and songwriter editing videos and making videos and films that is totally secondary in terms of my level of knowledge I’m just not comfortable putting that on video yet but I will be doing that soon it’s just a thank you I’m I’m using your money to Make the show better I promise and you’re going to continue to see improvements and for those of you who are thinking about it maybe you know you haven’t had money in the past maybe they only got a buck name you’ve got two bucks whatever you’ve got if you’re Willing to help out the show then I welcome that support of course if you’re not interested in patreon but would like to support me in other ways there’s always my band camp page where I sell my music at an insanely reasonable price again that is in the description below This is the video that I’ve been wanting to do for a while today is the right day you know it just feels like today is the right day to do it so what I’m going to do today is recomposed the my favorite song from the Minecraft soundtrack I’m a Huge fan of Minecraft I bought it when it came out in beta 2009 and it’s I’m pretty sure you’re familiar with it this is what it sounds like [Laughter] So I’m going to be going over how that’s made and how it works this subject is basically only four tracks there’s a piano there is Arco strings and there’s two Cano strings and there’s a dulcimer Arco is an Italian word it means both with bow that’s when a string instrument Plays with the bow okay then there’s Pizza kado which is when the string and Smith plucks okay so Boop or the bass when they plug on up right I’ve labeled those Arco strings and pizza kind of strings and there’s a dulcimer you can hear the dulcimer right here Now it’s difficult to tell whether or not this is a dulcimer or it prepared piano a prepared piano is when you put like bolts and screws and stuff inside of the piano strings to make it sound differently piano technicians by the way hate it when you do this so try to avoid That in your composition if it’s possible so what I’m going to be doing though is using a dulcimer and I’ll probably be using a dulcimer from reactor so let’s figure out what the tempo and keys looks like it’s at 88 beats per minute let’s figure out what Key it’s in it’s really important to have a good sustain pedal or at least a synthesizer with a convincing sustain pedal or an actual piano I really believe this is a recorded piano it’s not a contact instrument it’s not a synthesized instrument but I don’t have The luxury of owning a piano so we just really need to emulate this as best as the best as possible okay not sure if it’s using a mode other than Ionian or Aeolian and I’m not that’s major a minor and I’m not sure whether or not it’s using a definite key So instead what I’m going to say the tonal center right or the pitch at which everything revolves around is II all right some sort of a minor E major thing is it goes back and forth it definitely has what’s called an ostinato an ostinato is when a bassline Repeats and repeats and repeats and maybe the melody over top changes but you have a very steady bass note listen now normally in my videos I’m kind of salty and making fun of music I want to make it very clear that I have a lot of Respect for this this is minimal this is great use of source material this fits the video game perfectly I remember the first time this came on in the game it was just beautiful yeah I’m not making fun of this here this is simple but it’s simple with function Now it’s gonna be difficult for me to get all these pitches exactly correct but I’m going to do my best he does tend to shift and add and change layers each time a progression goes around but I’m going to again I’m gonna do my best here All right there’s the base ostinato let’s see how far this goes all right that’s as far as it goes so let’s join this writer let’s consolidate make this one simple section here now I’m going to start to add layers on top Are there we go that’s the entire first piano line built up aside from some dynamic shifts and a little bit of velocity adjusting that I need to do that’s pretty much done so that’s the majority of the work we need to do here it’s just getting this ostinato and Getting this right now so let’s get the rest of the piano right now then we’ll worry about strings pizza cotta and dulcimer because we’re basically it’s going to trade MIDI at that point so I got hungry but now So you can see here he’s a fan of repetitive bass lines or ostinato there’s that word again There’s quite a bit of dissonance in here too which I really like there’s some extended tonality some seriously dissonant chords gone listen to this chord stack right here this is um like it’s a suspension for sure but it’s very dissonant listen the half-step being played within there it’s beautiful it’s beautiful All right so seriously that’s the main theme that’s the whole composition the rest of this is just trading MIDI notes out and stacking things so from here on out let’s do a time lapse and the song behind this is not going to be c418 song it’s going to be my recreation so what You’re about to listen to is me You Gentleman that’s going to do it for me today I tried to get close as I could again my sounds are going to be exactly the same because it’s not the same it can’t be that’s that’s the beauty of music it’ll never be as good as the original that’s not the point the point Is trying to show you how this works hopefully you’ve gained some knowledge do you like what I do here on the show please give this video a thumbs up and consider subscribing I put out a cool video almost every day yeah stick around stay tuned if you’re new here leave me a Comment so I can say hey but as always my name is Gardiner I’ll see you tomorrow You Video Information
This video, titled ‘How to Make the Music in Minecraft (C418) (Recomposed)’, was uploaded by GARDNSOUND on 2017-08-08 19:19:53. It has garnered 13543 views and 609 likes. The duration of the video is 00:12:37 or 757 seconds.
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