Music lesson:

• Talking about mathcore and mathrock
• mathcore is a jazz subgenre. it probably has improvisation in it.
• Talking about shibuya by Covet
• There’s a lot of repeated patterns.
• It’s has the foundation of 4/4 but with a beat added or removed at times.
• They’re cutting the tail end of the pattern at different times.
• There are pretty simple harmonies.
• The chord progression is similar to royal road
• The riff is the melody, but the melody isn’t doing the kind of things a melody would normally do; there aren’t really many long notes.
• falkor by Covet
• Mathcore develops itself by adding more layers or by changing the number of beats
• The rhythm in falkor is a combination of 4/4 measures with beats added or removed so that the downbeat is in different places.
• Mathcore likes to use unusual numbers of notes in a measure, like quintuplets (5 notes in a measure)
• with more than 4 notes in a measure, you typically count them by 2s and 3s. For example, with 5 notes, you might count them as 2-3 or 3-2. You can think of this when structuring the melody as well.
• mathrock sounds better when there is something that is consistent, like the drums.
• try to use a tempo that is still discernable (don’t go too fast)

Homework:

• Make a riff pattern