I can't stress enough the value in learning super basic music theory. Also, try making some very short songs. Like, songs with only 2 parts: a musically tense buildup and a nice melodic release. Do that enough and you'll get a damn good feel for how songs work.
You could also try to do a couple cover songs and see how those are written.

Totally take this dudes advice!

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132 Reply by Doxic Jan 4, 2013 11:21 pm

Re: The Weekly Treats 2013 Thread (173 replies, posted in Releases)

cheapshot wrote:

VCMG wrote:
Aw man, dem gagaku samples
This's the first time I haven't been annoyed by the hichiriki's sound, awesome!

Hehe, thanks! I recorded them live at a traditional Japanese wedding out here. Hence the title of the track

And the award for best trivia goes to...!

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133 Reply by Doxic Jan 4, 2013 3:32 pm

Re: The Weekly Treats 2013 Thread (173 replies, posted in Releases)

Very chill! I love it, great work cheapshot!

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134 Reply by Doxic Jan 3, 2013 1:53 pm

Re: Starting a new Chiptune Weblabel (42 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Betablips
WetChips
My 1st LSDJ Netlabel

Thats all I got.

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135 Reply by Doxic Jan 2, 2013 3:26 am

Re: Baby's First (presentable) Track (3 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

I posted my thoughts on the song page

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136 Reply by Doxic Dec 30, 2012 9:16 am

Re: Question: Can I have two instances of Fami open? (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Pieces of Eight wrote:

Nah, I'm not doing this for more bass. Rather, I'd like two pulse channels for the lead (one channel for an echo/delay), and two more pulse channels for an accompanied line, but I also want a pulse channel so I can have more freedom with a bass line. With your suggestion in mind, I may just have to have two separate files and have the duplicate have the "echo" only. I had in mind that two Fami windows would be less complicated and time consuming in the end.

Oh you want an echo? You can play around with echoing on the same channel, somewhat hard to do and it's not the best way to do it, but if you really don't want to use an expansion chip, try it out.

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137 Reply by Doxic Dec 30, 2012 8:43 am

Re: Question: Can I have two instances of Fami open? (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

My recommendation is just to use another module format, I don't really know what you expect to get by running two windows of FamiTracker at the same time, it's better to just export it as wav and if you really want more bass, mute the other channels except the bass and export it as another wav file, put both files in audacity, tune it to your likely and export as whatever you want.

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138 Reply by Doxic Dec 29, 2012 1:55 pm

Re: New Years Eve Dance Party! (18 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Check out my stuff in you want, you can use it no questions asked

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139 Reply by Doxic Dec 28, 2012 1:23 am

Re: The Weekly Treats 2013 Thread (173 replies, posted in Releases)

Sounds pretty rad! Can't wait to hear cheapshot!

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140 Reply by Doxic Dec 27, 2012 2:45 pm

Re: Welcome to CM.O! (Introduction Thread) (676 replies, posted in General Discussion)

mizu wrote:

hi I'm not new too.

I swear your name is so familiar...

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141 Reply by Doxic Dec 27, 2012 2:44 pm

Re: What was your very first computer / game console ever? And when? (81 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I got a custom built PC when running win98 when I was about 7(?) I can't quite remember. I've never owned a console and I never played any classic games like Super Mario or Mega Man. I mainly played adventure games, such as Pajama Sam (I know it's a horrible game title) that series influenced my tastes greatly, as well as the music for the first game brought me to the wonderful world of jazz

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