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Start with a note, any note.
Have a panel of listeners.
Trial a "second note" by trying every possible note and instrument to find the note that sounds BEST when played after the first note. Then, the 3rd note, trial every note to see which sounds best after the 1st and 2nd note. Then 4th, 5th etc
etc.
In this way, you are on a winning formula. Every note hits the sweet spot. No lyrics required. How can it fail?
'Tribute' by Tenacious D
http://www.tenaciousd.com/video.html
The best song in the world (third one down). [DrBob, Mar 24 2006]
The Hula Lessons
http://www.tropicis...a_instructions2.htm
For [skinflaps] [wagster, Mar 24 2006]
Antler love website
http://antlers.date.../love/oklahoma6.htm
[normzone, Aug 24 2006]
songs without lyrics
http://www.amazon.c...051?v=glance&n=5174
[bleh, Aug 29 2006]
This is the bestest song ever.
http://www.boingboi...ute-compositio.html
it's 22 minutes long. [jaksplat, Apr 17 2008]
[link]
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It'll fail because music is cultural and
personal. You'll never get every panel
member to agree. Not everyone will
appreciate the final melody. |
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And a song is much more than a
melody. What of the tempo, style,
emotion of the piece? None of that is
considered in your idea. What indeed of
the length of each note? Stacatto,
glissando? |
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[Elitefingerbun] I'm afraid you'll end up
with a rather dull jumble of notes. |
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Start with "raspberry". What's the best word to follow "raspberry"? |
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We like white noise, where do we start? |
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Let's start with white noise and look for the most interesting thing to subtract from it. Subtract "raspberry" from white noise, then add a kicking breakbeat. A sure fire winner. |
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Obviously, "nipple" is the best word to follow raspberry. |
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It will be a song to unite the punk and the classical........ anyhow, don't believe me, I will show you all ahahaha hehehe hohooh errrmmmm....... |
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// Obviously, "nipple" is the best word to
follow raspberry // Obviously. |
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We could make the best ever sentence NOW. Just add your wordbest to follow; |
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gotta stop you there. Lists are not
welcome. We can't all help you write your
idea. |
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The best music comes from the heart and soul of the composer. Anything 'manufactured' will sound just that. [-] |
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//after the original labels were found to have the songs credited to "Bill Nelson's Red Nose"// - When I was working in a recording studio with an Icelandic singer (with a heavy accent), I labelled up all the masters and sent them off to the record company including a track called "Antlers Love". It was only later that I found out it was called "Endless Love". I always wondered how far that went before someone spotted it. |
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From snopes: "Shigeru Miyamoto, the game's inventor and the one person who unquestionably knows the origins of the name he chose, has repeatedly affirmed that he used the word "donkey" to convey a sense of stubbornness and the name "Kong" to invoke the image of a gorilla." |
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Talk about going off the subject at hand here. |
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Anyone know where I can get Hula lessons on the cheap? |
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Yes, there are very reasonably priced teach-yourself-hula videos available (link). |
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Cool, [wags] I'm thinking of starting a Hula football team. |
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Count me in, I know a good jive goalie. |
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You couldn't tell if note #2 is good or bad until you knew what was going to come after it. |
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Scientists once did something like this to draw the "most beautiful possible woman". The result was blah. It was really just a local maximum. |
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What was her name, this local maximum? Was she at all well known outside the lab, or were the scientists just not getting out much? |
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Thanks for bringing this back the fore. I like the use of pure logic. |
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"Raspberry nipples forever..." |
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Come on guys, we are writing the lyrics for the best song ever here... |
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Isn't that how you're supposed to write songs anyway? Only with chords and without a panel to vote on it. At least, that's how I do it... |
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[wagster], apparently the song title "Antlers Love" went on to spur a website for antler lovers [link] |
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I think the concept of "every possible note" is flawed. It's about like trying to draw the most beautiful possible woman by trying "every possible whole number of inches" for the dimensions of the features. |
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No, SpiderMother, How do you think they created me? :P |
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Though, no matter what you're panel of judges think, there will be those rebellious punks who hate it simply because of what it claims to be. And what about music theory..? You could just end up in an arpeggio continuum. |
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//Also, it's not much of a song if there's
no lyrics - that's just a tune, then// |
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did this not bother anyone else? there
are many a great song with no lyrics.
honestly, i despise lyrics. Just give me a
melody and im happy. even when
someone is jabbering on about
wildebeasts and demons, i generally
tune out the words and just listen to the
melody, and how it plays with the rest
of the track. see: bobby mcferrin (yes
the dont worry be happy guy, no not
that album). He did a disc with chick
corea that was just piano and voice, and
only one song (a cover) had lyrics, all
are amazing. |
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[bleh] You have jazzed your way into my heart. I have heard that album, and it is quite good. Chick is such a wonderful pianist. |
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Pat Metheny, a jazz guitarist did something similar on the album "Still Life (Talking)" (or something like that) |
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But yea, this idea definately would not work. As a budding musician I theoretically should be offended that you think music can be written this way.... (If anyone has heard of John Cage however, this might not be as outlandish as it first seems) |
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Oh, and saying it's not music because there is no lyrics is ... frightening. Should I point out the last 600+ years of western music (excluding early music) generally had no words ? It looks like I just did. Anyway, listen to some Bach and tell me that's not music, teehee. |
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