Big Mindset Shift To Write Amazing Ambient Music (Horizontal vs. Vertical songwriting)
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
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If you want to write amazing ambient music, you need to hear this powerful mindset shift.
I wish I had learned this perspective a lot earlier. It would have helped me be a lot more confident with my music and not feel like I was writing ''inferior'' music by playing through a lot of repetitions.
This mindset shift is all about viewing songwriting in a vertical manner instead of the regular horizontal one.
Don't worry, I will unpack what this means practically for your ambient songwriting in this video!
Let me know if that was helpful and if you'd like to see more videos like this. Thanks!
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I love that characterization of ambient music as "a moment in time". Please, more of the philosophical!
Antoine this is killer, thanks a bunch!
My goal for music is to become the best player I can for my church and one big element is ambience, I’ve had basic understanding of building and breaking down in the ambient moments, but this really illuminated things for me and is definitely going to set me on the right track as I continue to progress in that regard, brilliant stuff man
All the best!
Wow, this really frees me up Musically. This will definitely change my songwriting.
This is a great course, everyone! Antoine is an amazing teacher!
Thank you Char ❤️
I liked the scene-metaphor.
I've been looping for 40 years. I really needed to hear this. Thanks Antoine!
40 years is very impressive, Carl. Congrats!
Antoine, you are so inteligent, so nice and gentle - wonderful teacher! It's amazing! Thank you for what you are doing here, for your kindness and your energy - it is so inspiring! ❤ I will surely buy one od your course!
I'm honored, Michał. Thank you 🙏
Great insight. I'll pick up my Ambient Coruse again.
Thanks Antoine! You may remember some questions I asked you in the courses I bought, this is what I was circling around. In my case there is also a certain interest in unpredictability in music, in "nonformal tempo" as a very interesting musician calls it (Boulez), nonlinearity, improvisation and how it can play and relate to structure. Definitely I think you can have a series of videos in your channel about these "essays" or philosophy as you called it. But it's very "embodied" (or "ensounded") philosophy indeed. I always felt a certain trap or lure in how music usually seems to operate, it reminds me of the tale of the "flute player of Hamelin", by just playing around with emotional and perceptual patterns instead of exploring the openness of sensitivity itself. For example the various modes can be seen as pattern triggers and act as sort of programs in these patterns. Is that the most interesting and "freeing" modality of perception and art? Doubtful. It also brings me to the view of how we can relate to experience in a contemplative/meditative way vs the usual patterned and patterning view of linear flow of tension and release, time, etc. I find this is a very freeing and inspiring exploration. Thanks!
Very interesting approach & method. Thank you Antoine.
Great insights! I would be interested in more song writing chats like this
Awesome! Thanks, Sam 🙏
Great advice! Thank you 😊
Good video! A video on showing how to do it would be perfect. Keep up the good work.
Yes, I could make one more on the practical side of it. Good idea!
Awesome video! 😎
Thank you for the tips. It inspired me to try something new 😊
You’re welcome 😊
Thanks Antoine, Received my course this week great format and the explanations are very clear, Great job 😊🎸🎸🎸
Thank you very much, Kenny 🙏
@@AntoineMichaudGuitar 🙏👍
Excellent! Thank you!
Excellent and refreshing video!
i love how you describe this concept, and explain so well, a way to view songwriting from a new and exciting perspective; thank you! ❤
Good morning, my friend!
IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT AMBIENT MUSIC STANDS FOR.NOW, I HAVE A SOLO PROJECT AND A UA-cam CHANNEL.
ANTOINE YOU ARE A GREAT ARTIST.THANKS FOR ALL THE INSPIRING CONTENT YOU HAVE UPLOADED.COULD YOU TEACH US ONE OF YOUR SONGS? THANKS👍🏻🤘🏻
I've been listening to ambient music for many years and I've always struggled with the notion that I'm being hoodwinked, that someone is playing four notes again and again and calling it music. Yet ambient music always made me feel inspired and awestruck. Now I have a an argument I can use against those who say this. You can have as much philosophy on your channel as you like 👍
Interesting. I have the complete opposite problem, I can't get out of vertical mindset. It strongly prevents me from doing anything other than minimalistic compositions consisting of a lot of repetitions with small modulations (just often vertically, i.e. adding and removing layers and textures to a completely static harmony). it's also reflected in my way of searching for new music, often it is enough for me 2-3 seconds to understand whether I like the track or not, I analyze the track vertically, so it is enough for me to listen to 2 seconds in different parts of the track to like the track or not, I care little about its development horizontally. To be honest I'm a bit tired of it, but I feel I have a lot of work ahead of me if I want to learn how to do compositional development in my tracks. What would your advice be? I realize that ambient is often about mood, but I've gotten a little bored of creating some slightly moving "moods", I'd like to tell interesting and moving stories but staying within the genre. I think some artists are good at it, like hammock for example.
Antoine, do you do any kind of personal coaching for music/composition etc? I would really like to explore these matters "strings-on" and in personal contact, even for a short time of training? Cheers! Thanks again!
Hey Martin! I am not offering that at the moment. I'm in a season of life with a young family where I decided to stop ongoing commitments like private lessons/coaching sessions/group Q&A calls/etc. to do more scalable work like making courses and build my catalog of videos on UA-cam to get discovered. It's working great so far not only in terms of results, but also in terms of the lifestyle I want in this season. It's more flexible and beneficial long term, and I can spend more time with my family. Maybe someday when my kids will be older I'll focus on more group or 1-on-1 coaching or even in-person workshops or things like that, but for now flexibility is where it's at!
@@AntoineMichaudGuitar ahh you have a family! I didn't know! Yes I understand I have a family myself, my daughter is 4 and I'm trying to flow/work with time and "material" concerns and the possibility of playing and sharing and maybe even "making a living" eventually w music, but might take a while! Well I hope you enjoy and would love to learn from and with you some time. Best wishes, Antoine!