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Spatial Relationships - Hand Independence and Counterpoint (Part 2/5)

March 16/19 edit:  Major 1500-word update to the article below, exploring the connection between harmonic and spatial relationships at the piano.  Also includes 15 n...

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Creating SFX (Explosions) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #49 (PREVIEW)

Here's a PREVIEW of my tutorial on creating Explosion SFX in Pico-8

+5$ Patrons have access to the full tutorial video, the Pico-8 cart with 30+ explosion sounds, and a .zip file with ALL the...

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Creating SFX (Explosions) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #49

Happy Monday! 

Attached is the Pico-8 tutorial and explosions SFX pack! 

Explosion SFX are lots of fun. In this tutorial, I play with a few different workflows. Here’s a sum...

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Pico-8 Explosions SFX Pack, now available!

💥 BANG BOOM KAPOW 💥

+5$ Patrons now have access to a Pico-8 cart with 20+ explosion sound effects! (Link).  Watch the YouTube vide...

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Pico-8 Explosions SFX Pack!

💥 BANG BOOM KAPOW 💥

UPDATED Explosions SFX pack, can be found here View Post

Creating SFX (UI, Scroll, Select) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #48 (PREVIEW)

Here's a PREVIEW of my tutorial on creating UI SFX in Pico-8 (Scrolling, selecting etc.)

+5$ Patrons have access to the full tutorial video, the Pico-8 cart with 40+ UI sounds, and a .zip fil...

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Creating SFX (UI, Scroll, Select) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #48

A tutorial on creating UI SFX for your game (scrolling, selecting etc.). Hope you enjoy!

Attached is the video file, the Pico-8 cart with 40+ UI effects (complete list below), and a .zip file...

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Active & Passive Relationships - Hand Independence and Counterpoint (Part 1/5)

Up to this point, I’ve treated the right and left hands equally, showing fingerings and hand positions for both hands. This fulfills an ideal that many jazz pianists have: that the left and right...

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Pico-8 UI SFX Pack!

Hello Patrons!

UPDATED UI SFX pack, can be found here...

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Creating SFX (Jumps) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #47 (PREVIEW)

Here's a PREVIEW of my tutorial on creating jump SFX in Pico-8.

+5$ Patrons have access to the full tutorial video, the Pico-8 cart with 32 different jump sounds, and a .zip file with ALL the...

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Creating SFX (Jumps) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #47

A tutorial on creating jump SFX for your game. Hope you enjoy!

Attached is the video file, the Pico-8 cart with 32 different jump sounds (complete list below), and a .zip file with all the ju...

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Pico-8 Music Tutorial List

Howdy!

I got some feedback from Patrons who thought it’d be a good idea to make a list of all my Pico-8 music tutorials with links to where you can watch them. Here they are! 

I...

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Death from Fez (MilkyTracker cover)

A request from Trasevol_Dog!  Death from Fez (composed by Disasterpeace)... arranged in Milk...

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Update: Plans for 2019

Hello Patrons and friends!

An update on some of the content you can expect over the next few months and through 2019:

Pico-8 SFX Tutorials

This is an idea I got f...

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Getting Started with Sound & Music - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #00

A tutorial for beginners who are just getting started with making music and sound in Pico-8.

Most of my tutorials are for users who are already somewhat familiar with Pico-8.  So I thoug...

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Home from Fez (Pico-8 Cover)

A request from Neil Popham!  Home from Fez (composed by Disasterpeace...

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Join Gruber's Discord Server!

Hey everyone!

I've opened my Discord server up to ALL Patrons!

I don't share everything I'm working on all the time, but I'd like to be more active here.  I’ll b...

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First Steps from Celeste (Pico-8 Cover)

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone had a good holiday. 

I'm excited to be back at work. I have lots of plans this year for tutorials, making music in Pico-8, Milkytracker, live str...

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Adventure from Fez (Pico-8 Cover)

The first track from the Fez soundtrack! One of my personal favourites from the album. 

Attached is:

The music transcription, which is actually a kind of hybrid between a...

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Pico-8 Xmas Mp3s!

Attached are Christmas music Mp3s that I've worked on this year and last. Most of them have been written for games for the View Post

POLL: Favourite Indie Game + BandCamp release!

Please vote for two of your favourite indie games. Poll closes on Friday night!

I picked these games because they're rather popular and seemed to have the most interesting soundtrac...

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News, Plans and Updates!

Hello friends and patrons! 

Just wanted to update you on the content you can expect in the near future:

Noob Theory Tutorial Series & Future Tutorials

The Noob ...

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Composing with Modes #3 (Noob Theory 10/10) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #46

In this video, I use the ionian, lydian and mixolydian modes to composing some chill village music. Workflow went something like this:

  • Find ionian scale – 0:15
  • Find lydian sc...

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Composing with Modes #2 (Noob Theory 9/10) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #45

In this video, I compose using mixed modes, like in the Fortnite example from tutorial #43. I also try to compose something more ambient. Workflow went something like this:

  • Find lydian ...

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Composing with Modes #1 (Noob Theory 8/10) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #44

For the next three tutorials, watch me compose as much music as I can in about 15mins. 

In this video, I use only the mixolydian scale. Workflow went something like this:

  • Fin...

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Exercises for Changing Scales (Jazz Piano Exercises)

February 1/19 edit: Now includes a section at the end called “Practice Goals” which includes exercises that are a good summary of the entire article. Also includes a simple chart f...

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Studying Modes in Video Game Music (Noob Theory 7/10) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #43

In this tutorial, I take three compositions from three video games, and extract some of the modes used to compose them. Hope you enjoy it… it’s definitely one of the most difficult videos I’v...

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Odd Meters (Noob Theory 6/10) - Pico-8 Music Tutorial #42

In Pico-8, I consider ‘odd-meters’ to be anything that doesn’t cycle evenly in 32-rows. This will include anything grouped in 3, 5, 6 and 7. 

I take the same approach as in the pre...

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Exercises for Changing Direction (Jazz Piano Exercises)

January 19/19 edit: I've added a section at the end called “Practice Goals” which includes an exercise that’s a good summation of the whole article. It also includes a simple cha...

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Meter (Noob Theory 5/10) – Pico-8 Music Tutorial #41

Taking a break from talking about scales and modes to talk about meter. Very technically, the word “meter” refers to points in time, that are part of a repetitive, organized hierarchy.  View Post