All this music covered is music for dads… what’s the average age of SA tut makers? Is it any wonder? Come on… where’s the real cutting edge tips?
That new radiohead track is ON IT… (yeh i know they are old but they ahead of the curve so i’ll let them off) … so is flying lotus, so is SBTRKT… stop making music for old people and PLEASE give us some proper clever stuff. You might get people other than David Guetta types subscribing then (BTW how old is David Guetta? He’s going bald under that massive combover 
Reality is though we’d probably have to wait ages for someone to listen to the stuff we want to hear, reverse engineer it (in a dad style) and then put it out over a series of tuts. Is it any wonder I haven’t paid up yet?
The reason why, is that real “cutting edge stuff” doesn’t get tutorials. You have to do it yourself and make the discoveries yourself. If a piece of music is generic enough to make a tutorial video about it it’s probably somewhat calcified (or “for dads”, ageist)
What you’re asking is like “This How To Play the Guitar book just covers scales and chords! Where does it tell me how to be Jimi Hendrix??”
What Sonic Academy and sites like it teach you is how to play your software and hardware like an instrument. You’re supposed to take that knowledge and THEN go do the cutting edge stuff on your own.
When house and techno was invented, there were no instructional videos on how to make it. There was a bunch of guys and girls playing with 303s and 909s. They learned a lot through trial and error. That is always how the true cutting edge is found, and no tutorial can ever change that.
And another thing! What is with this “for dads” stuff?
Know your history, son. You’ll be a better musician/producer/dj for it.
The cutting edge only exists because of what has gone before. Don’t just dismiss everything made before last fall as irrelevant or for old people. All music, ESPECIALLY electronic dance music, is a process of digging up elements of the past and recycling them in different ways, including the guys you love, who are sampling 90s DnB and dub, or experimental/ambient.
Disco and funk came out before I was born (mostly) but knowing how disco and funk goes together and how it is made is a HUGE help to making even the most modern stuff. And that’s just dance music, you should have an in depth awareness of ALL MUSIC, classical, jazz, rock, stuff from three hundred years ago and from last week, which gives you the broadest possible palette of knowledge to draw from.
Even if the style of music in the tutorials isn’t to your taste, there’s something to learn from them.
Lifeguards!!
I nibbled trollbait, sorry! wont happen again.
[quote]stoat77 (20/02/2011)[hr]I nibbled trollbait, sorry! wont happen again.
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Totally Mate - LOL 
he he he ha ha. I do smell like a troll sometimes… especially when my mum forgets to tidy my room and the stained underwear piles up
[quote]lorddarthfader (20/02/2011)[hr]All this music covered is music for dads… what’s the average age of SA tut makers? Is it any wonder? Come on… where’s the real cutting edge tips?
That new radiohead track is ON IT… (yeh i know they are old but they ahead of the curve so i’ll let them off) … so is flying lotus, so is SBTRKT… stop making music for old people and PLEASE give us some proper clever stuff. You might get people other than David Guetta types subscribing then (BTW how old is David Guetta? He’s going bald under that massive combover
Reality is though we’d probably have to wait ages for someone to listen to the stuff we want to hear, reverse engineer it (in a dad style) and then put it out over a series of tuts. Is it any wonder I haven’t paid up yet?[/quote]
if you want to see a tutorial in a particular style, request it in the tunes section. Put some youtube links to the types of tracks you are talking about / want to see. - then something might come of it.
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