Originality is just undetected plagiarism. The human ear doesn't want true originality, because true originality would sound like a random mess of sounds. We follow structures and rules that are set by others or set by ourselves, and even if we aren't directly copying someone we are relying on ideas that have come as a result of what we think sounds good. What we think sounds good is based on what we listened to growing up, so what we creative will inevitably become derivative of some work that affected us in the past.

Worry less about being original and more about being yourself. If you don't have the experience to know how to be yourself, then keep trying to be someone else each time you start a new track - inevitably you'll stumble across yourself by process of elimination.

thanks for making this, dude!

ya man, those african slaves shoulda just "grown beyond it"

those queer kids who have been kicked out of their homes and betrayed by their families need to just "grow beyond it"

it's easy to "grow beyond" shit when ur a blond haired wonderbread shmuck from the OC, but i'd love for you to ask alton sterling how he feels about being where he is because of things beyond his control.

Except white and male privilege is something that we can show demonstrably exists.

People with African American names are almost 50% less likely to be picked for job interviews over people with white names. They have to make 5 more callbacks than a white candidate. They have to spend on average a week longer than a white person does to find a job.

Women earn 79 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as a man, working in the same position, with the same amount of qualifications and job experience.

While both white people and black people smoke marijuana at the same rates, black people are 3.7 times more likely to be arrested.

The only person who talks down to others about not knowing the value of "learning hard work" is the kind of person who thinks that hard work is all you need to make it - probably because they don't understand how many advantages they were personally given to get to their goals, and foolishly think that their personal struggles somehow invalidate that fact.

Sorry about that, was running around a lot yesterday and forgot to upload them to clyp. Just updated the OP with the links!

TPF Beat Cypher

Good morning, everyone! It is time for Week 5 of the TPF Weekly Beat Cypher. Just post in the thread below that you're joining the Cypher and download the samples, follow the simple rules posted below, and spend the next 7 days working on a 1 minute beat. Private message me with a download link to your beat by Saturday, July 9th at midnight Pacific Time (UTC -8:00), and come check out the thread Sunday morning around this time for the results and next week's Beat Cypher!

THE BORING PART - THE RULES (there's only two)

• You must use both samples provided, and you must compose in the BPM provided. One sample will be a transition sound you place at the start and end of your track, and the other is the featured sample for your beat.
• You have to both post in this thread that you are joining AND private message me with your track in 32 or 24 bit, 44.1 kHz WAV or AIFF file format before 11:59 PM PST on Saturday for your submission to count.

WARNING: If you do not follow the rules, your submission will not be accepted! That means if you send an mp3 file, if you send a file after the deadline, if you send a soundcloud link without downloads enabled or behind a private link, if you forget to use the featured sample or if you don't place the transition sample at the beginning and end of your beat, I can't accept it! I know this is new so I've been allowing exceptions, but please read the rules and don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions. If you use Clyp, it will change the file type to mp3 so please use soundcloud, dropbox, google drive, or some other method of getting me the file.

If you're unsure of how the beat cypher works, here's an article describing it, a video that touches on it, and lastly here are all the Team Supreme cyphers, so you can hear how they did it:


Here’s last week’s cypher:

Here’s the Beat Cypher playlist:
Now, onto the fun part: This Week's Challenge!

Our first sample is a recording of some birds I took in Hawaii. It's a long file, so as long as you're using some of it you can use as much or as little as you want.

Our transitional sample is a sweep I made from a recording of a waterfall in Hawaii. - Place this at the start and end of your 1 minute beat so I can blend them all together next Saturday!

Our tempo is 128 Beats Per Minute, so you need to write about 32 bars of music to complete this week's challenge.

Challenge starts now, so get to beatmaking!

REGISTERED CYPHERS:

• Mussar
• ScottCampbell
• Aric James
• FarleyCZ

maybe u should re-read this blog post u wrote/stole and rly think about both ur target audience and your long term solutions, cuz promoting urself on a web forum seems like a faulty market

Next episode is up, so get your practicing in!