thanks i appreciate it, i think i may do that this upcoming semester.

no offense to you guys but you just arent hitting the mark for what im asking- that being said, i could be asking the wrong thing.

if any of you are up to skype sometime, id be willing to pay for an hour or so of music theory, related to specifically what i was asking.

Title.

I guess I'm trying to read this stuff and understand it. (i have a bachelors so its not that i cant read, hahah). I guess this may be a dumb question since i dont even understand how i should phrase it.

Im playing a song and i have my chord progression. Solid. I can understand what chord progression it is by roman numerals. Check. Its all perfect (in theory), and it checks out.

Heres the part im having trouble understanding.

How do i recognize the scale over the chord progression/and or what that scale should be?

When i am creating music- melody, specifically- is that just a scale of certain notes over chord progression?

Hopefully this is clear. thanks for the help. I am not a music major, but i do enjoy this stuff.

Can you guys help explain?

I dont understand how to play with off a scale and why they come in.

I cant even formalize a question i guess because i dont understand them.

i got theres 7 different modes but thats about it.

how are they relative

thoughts on this program for sound design?

This brings up two questions for me.

- Is it a general consensus that if the entire spectrum is not filled up between my highest end and my lowest end that I should fill those spots with atmosphere / percussion / synth etc. ?

- If I have synths layered on each other (same ranges) and it sounds muddy, lets say the route I take is to take one out. I have now taken one out and the synth sounds weak / amateur. How would I make it sound full / professional? Am I to add another synth and hope it mesh's well with EQ or whatever else that needs to be done to it? I hope you understand what I mean by amateur, but I guess I don't know how else to put it at this moment.

I'm so upset that it freaking deleted my other response.

Title.

I'm having extreme difficult in doing this. I understand this may just be lack of music theory knowledge possibly, but I do follow scales accordingly and have everything in key.

I do sometimes feel as though this is a clash of synths on layering. I guess I possibly don't understand the technical aspect behind it or how many you should have? (I understand I may get answers that EQ is your friend, but I wouldn't know how to start to do that, or the suggested way. I do know how to EQ though and do it quite frequently, but maybe not in the right way with these synth layering is what I'm specifically asking) i.e. melodic bassline to include a separate sub bass bassline following accordingly or slighty varied, another example is having your melody layered with 3 different synths in different octaves, following accordingly. Is this the general consensus? Am I doing this completely wrong? Flosstradamus provided a small tutorial in his masterclass for Emotional, but I was curious if anyone had anymore in depth tutorials possibly, as I have been unable to locate any on my own.

Any tips on how to help with this?

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