Hey all, Ive been attempting to recreate the piano sound from the track, im fairly sure its a honkytonk piano, maybe band passed? Playing Eight's? Ive tried but nothing sounds that good at all. 


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjRKbk61hMM

To be honest, this is why I don't like learning music theory from youtube tutorials and stuff like that. They give you a lot of rules that you're expected to follow without properly telling you why, and people develop an expectation that the rules are concrete and permanent and/or learn information that only makes sense when you learn fundamental concepts that get glossed over.

You can use any note and any chord in any scale, because almost every scale has the potential to play every single note, you just have to change the accidental. C Major contains every natural note (white keys on the piano), so the D chord you're referring to - D Natural Minor - would be called a diatonic chord - it only uses notes that are found within the scale. However, there's nothing saying that you can't use D major (D F# A) or D Diminished (D F Ab), for example, if you think it'll sound good.

I recommend everyone go to musictheory.net and spend a few days really going through the lessons one by one and trying to digest the information in sequence. If you can learn to read sheet music, comprehending theory gets so much easier.

I lurk around alot but i see you post often everything you say has been amazingly helpful and respectful. i shall do exactly as you said, learning theory from videos and stuff is hard because of the exact reasons and if you get confused, or take something the wrong way IMO you can develop bad habits. as you said i shall spend the time i do on production daily into learning theory far better and understanding As its a extremely fundamental part of making songs and i do want to learn how to play the piano thus sheet music would be wonderful to learn. thank you for the link.

You guys are legends, these tips have helped so much so far . thank you.

Isnt a tad bit amazing that we can make full tracks mix and master them and release from one single computer.. It's truly insane.

Try this.

Options > Audio Settings > Try either ASIO or FL ASIO And increase the buffer or decrease it.

Using the default web browsers isn't too bad but it's a bit of a pain to post and edit stuff, and just browse in general but just a thoug

Subbed, really helped me understand a bit more in music theory