A quarter tone is the pitch between what normal pitches we know of in our chromatic scale. Instead of moving notes up and down the scale a semitone at a time (which is half a tone), we move a quarter a tone at a time. Quarter tones have been used in music around the world for quite an impressive amount of time.

My question is this, what is stopping this technique from catching on in western music? Is it because it's to hard for artists and composers to implement today? Is it too awkward and weird for the usual audience?

Bonus points if you can point to some producers using quarter tones now. I'd love to hear it in use, or even how they use it.

As per the request of a close friend to "make a super obnoxious remix of a somber song," I've decided to do a bootleg remix of this classic.

WELP, HOPEFULLY I FINISH TONIGHT I'LL POST UPDATES AS I GO

Update 1: the drop

Update 2: Electric boogaloo
Fixed some things. added some more. thumbs up.

Update 3: Another one
Oh boy.

Update 4: The Final Frontier
FINISHED. UNMIXED. UNMASTERED.

note for anyone in the future: the progress tracks are only being left up for 7 days. after that i'm taking them down to free up space on soundcloud.

I started this track and I feel it has some potential but I'm at a loss with where to go from here. The chorus/drop/whatever is not serious, I just threw it in. If you feel the same way as me feel free to download the stems/midi and do whatever you feel like. Remix it, sample it, send to me to add some more, whatever you want really.

Or some feedback/criticism on what you think I can do with the track would be nice too. You don't have to waste your bandwidth and time on downloading and contributing to this crap if you don't want to.


also, the title is just placeholder for the moment, but if you like it then whatever. I'm drunk so i guess it's cool.

I haven't seen anyone post this yet, so here it is.
Extremely massive variety of samples.
All for free. All categorized into packs.. Most of these are pretty fantastic too.

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/free-music-samples-download-loops-hits-and-multis-627820