Anyone care to ELI5 this for me? This seems like a big deal but I have no idea what it means lol.
Hmm. Any insights as to why this is different than a franchise tag? This feels a bit underwhelming
Me and my buddy are trying to put a set-list together with the theme mentioned in the title.
"Unassuming places" is intentionally a little vague, but the idea is that feeling of "damn, I did not expect a song from this [insert piece of media] to be that good," or when you sit down and really listen to something you are surprised at well-composed it is, or songs that sound simple and reach a wide audience, but are actually a lot more complicated under the hood.
Some examples of the sounds we're going for are:
- Disney tunes like Someday My Prince Will Come and Bear Necessities
- Children's songs/show themes such as Castaways by the Backyardigans, or the iCarly, Arthur, and Flintstones theme songs
- Songs from Nintendo games (really the epitome/inspiration of this list) like KK Jazz and KK Bossa, the Eterna Forest and Littleroot themes, Hateno Village theme, or the Underworld theme from Super Mario Bros.
You might also be able to call this list "songs geared towards children but are actually good" but I feel like that has more of a nursery rhyme-ish connotation and I'm hoping to branch out of that.
We're a guitar duo with a jazz background, so songs that could potentially fit that mold are preferred, but I don't want that to hinder anyone from giving suggestions! I'd love to see what anyone can come up with.
Me and my buddy are trying to put a set-list together with the theme mentioned in the title.
"Unassuming places" is intentionally a little vague, but the idea is that feeling of "damn, I did not expect a song from this [insert piece of media] to be that good," or when you sit down and really listen to something you are surprised at well-composed it is, or songs that sound simple and reach a wide audience, but are actually a lot more complicated under the hood.
Some examples of the sounds we're going for are:
- Disney tunes like Someday My Prince Will Come and Bear Necessities
- Children's songs/show themes such as Castaways by the Backyardigans, or the iCarly, Arthur, and Flintstones theme songs
- Songs from Nintendo games (really the epitome/inspiration of this list) like KK Jazz and KK Bossa, the Eterna Forest and Littleroot themes, Hateno Village theme, or the Underworld theme from Super Mario Bros.
You might also be able to call this list "songs geared towards children but are actually good" but I feel like that has more of a nursery rhyme-ish connotation and I'm hoping to branch out of that.
We're a guitar duo with a jazz background, so songs that could potentially fit that mold are preferred, but I don't want that to hinder anyone from giving suggestions! I'd love to see what anyone can come up with.
Me and my buddy are trying to put a set-list together with the theme mentioned in the title.
"Unassuming places" is intentionally a little vague, but the idea is that feeling of "damn, I did not expect a song from this [insert piece of media] to be that good," or when you sit down and really listen to something you are surprised at well-composed it is, or songs that sound simple and reach a wide audience, but are actually a lot more complicated under the hood.
Some examples of the sounds we're going for are:
- Disney tunes like Someday My Prince Will Come and Bear Necessities
- Children's songs/show themes such as Castaways by the Backyardigans, or the iCarly, Arthur, and Flintstones theme songs
- Songs from Nintendo games (really the epitome/inspiration of this list) like KK Jazz and KK Bossa, the Eterna Forest and Littleroot themes, Hateno Village theme, or the Underworld theme from Super Mario Bros.
You might also be able to call this list "songs geared towards children but are actually good" but I feel like that has more of a nursery rhyme-ish connotation and I'm hoping to branch out of that.
We're a guitar duo with a jazz background, so songs that could potentially fit that mold are preferred, but I don't want that to hinder anyone from giving suggestions! I'd love to see what anyone can come up with.
I don't listen to those bands much so I can't give you specific answers, but I'll try to give some general advice -
The slow but steady way is to learn as much music in that genre as possible. Eventually you'll start to naturally sound like what you're learning/playing. If you're goal oriented, do your best to learn an entire album inside and out. Be able to play the entire thing by heart. The real goal here though is the journey, not the destination. When it's not fun anymore, quit and move on to a different one. Maybe come back to it later.
If you want to accelerate the learning process, transcription and analysis will take you a long way. For example, what are the chords? How are they voicing them? How do they change and move from one another? What is the key? Are all the chords actually in the key? How is the melody structured? Is it busy or sparse? Outlining chord tones? What is the tone/timbre of the guitar? Of the other instruments? Of the song as a whole? How does that affect the song? Would the feeling of the song change with they changed? What is the rhythm of the guitar/melody/drums/bass. What is the instrumentation? The tempo? The arrangement? What emotion does this song make you feel like and why? What is the songs identity? For most of these questions, if not all of then, there are no wrong answers. Right answers only require a good faith argument and evidence to back it up.
When you've found answers to some of those questions for a handful of songs, what are the similarities and differences? How significant are they and how do they affect the song?
With all that being said, remember -
- This is not a quick process at all
- No matter how hard you try your songs will sound different. That's not only completely fine and expected, but its encouraged! Take ideas from your fav songs and mash them up. Do random shit on top of it. Experiment! Be different!
- Again, not a quick process at all
- These things should be fun, and don't do them if it feels like a chore. Music is fun! That's why we play! Don't lose sight of that with some arbitrary goal like this in mind.
I know that's a bunch of word vomit so if you'd like me to expand on any of this I'd be happy to.
TLDR; learn more songs and try to articulate why you like them :)
Same, except I’ll clip my keys onto my belt loop like a janitor lol. Keeping them in my pocket with my wallet gets too bulky and they feel safer clipped in.