I used to write lift music, it had its ups and downs.

Hi! I just need to get this off my chest. I'm "only" 34 but I have been writing and recorded my own music in Cubase since I was 9 back in 1995. I've released several albums, toured and also written music for other artists. I studied music for 10 years so I know quite a lot about music theory. Even so, I haven't had any interest in writing music for the past couple of years, just because I felt stuck and that everything I wrote sounded the same. I found your channel just a couple of days ago and I think I've watched your every video about composition and it has been so valuable and inspiring that it got my motivation back. So thank you, really!

1:30 worrying that Guy's piece of slaughtered rubbish is still way better than anything I could wrote...

The piece at the start gives me Sims vibes, it isn't actually that bad... lol

I was addicted to lift music but i changed my mindset and took all the necessary steps to avoid it.

"Hello everybody, and welcome to the shed" Guy would be such a polite Jigsaw-esque movie villain

At 24:33 - I'm glad I'm not the only person who plays imaginary vibrato on a keyboard when playing a string patch

I laughed out loud when you described my "unfinished" folder... it really is bigger than everything else put together! :-D

Guy shows a definite flair for creating interesting presentations. His KZfaq channel teaches and entertains like a Monty Python show. The lessons move fast, but dedicated viewers learn what they didn't know, and then understand how to improve. Guy M is a blessing. Individual creativity combined with his guidance should rapidly remove musical drivel from our ears.

Super informative Mr.Guy! Since I am a total noob even at amateur level of composing music, I was confused when you said that the music was trash in the beginning. Little did I know that, my whole thought process would change by the end of the video! Really appreciate your work :)

One of the best youtube channels out there.

"Terrible vibes" was an amazing piece of music. Elevator classic.

Dude, you give us so much of your time, for free! Great content, nice guy. I salute you sir!

I love your energy and vibe. Your colourful language makes me want to learn more from you/ThinkSpace and develop a career in music. Thank you for sharing your decades of knowledge for free to people like me who have a true musical passion and yearn to learn to be awesome! 🎉❤️

...I especially liked the piano and vibes trick... one might almost call it a Cunning, Cunning Pan...

Sir, you have shown me that I'm far more capable than I would've ever thought. I've spent my entire adult life as a dumb heavy rock drummer with bigger musical visions. Visions that I always assumed were out of reach of my actual musical abilities... man, have I been wrong for 35 years....THANK YOU, Mr. Michelmore, for showing the world that musical creation doesn't have to be mega complicated.

"It's not a tune, it's a musical car crash" - Guy Michelmore, 2020

Excellent video! Composing is a lot like scultping, in the sense that you are actively chipping away at the piece, you have to know what you don’t want the piece to be, in order to find out what you do want it to be.

I love the analogy of a melody being like a child lost in a supermarket!!

Could you make a video about how you went from a news anchor to a film composer?

I like the violin tune in the first one, it has emotion and reminds me of an old Irish tune. So there is a very big redeeming quality for you. The improvements were a great lesson in making something highly polished, pleasant, interesting with varied background, but without that violin I was not moved much by it.

“Stinkily done drums”....I’m stealing this phrase for the next drummer I record! 😂👍🏼

"That's not a tune, that's a musical car crash" Made me choke on my drink there xD

OHHH NOOOOO...... ear worm alert!!!! I found myself humming this tune while waiting in the queue for lunch....

your tune is literally the perfect on hold for hours loop

Honestly I think its not that bad, it reminds me a lot of kingdom hearts, when you walk around a peaceful part in a town

It's great to see a professional going into the Piano Roll and dragging stuff around. With some KZfaqrs, you get the impression that everything is done by a magical keyboard shortcut like ctrl-cmd-shift-esc-dollar sign.

Has a very love/drama/comedy film score vibe going on! Love it!

Guy, you're such a blessing! Cheers for all the amazing content and great energy.

Thanks for the leg up Guy.... Your advice has given me a sense of direction... 😎

6:40 Physical proof of Guy's immense and unreal knowledge as it ripples the lens of the camera.

I just found you an absolutely love your KZfaq videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your light.

Great video Guy, as always. But one thingy would be helpful: a short "what have you learned today" summary or something similar at the end. Also you could write the "5 things" in short sentences in the video descriptions, perhaps even with a timestamp. Does that make sense?

I looooooove these videos! You energy is great. Tiny request, a deEsser on your vocal mic. It’s a bit sharp in the ear when listening on AirPods. Great content though 🙌

This is my favorite music channel. Guy's are the only ones that don't lose me 2 minutes in. Thank you Guy!

If someone was searching for timestamps... 2:52 What Is My Idea? 4:49 Make Sure Everything Lines Up 16:34 Space Your Ideas Out 30:38 Make Sure Instruments Have Their Own Sonic Space 36:26 Reverses Help Transitions

You’re so expressive while talking and it’s very entertaining. But I gotta say, Every time you reached past that cup of tea above that keyboard I started rubbing my forehead just riddled with worry.

I would not be surprised if you were involved with Monty Python productions. You show us a passion for teaching music. Thank you for making KZfaq presentations for beginners, such as myself. They are interesting and entertaining (where intended). Keep up the great work!

"We're gonna work on it until we get to true mediocrity." Hilarious!

Grand designs , the peice and the patches sound like some thing from that TV show . The music suits the part where Graham Mackay the host is on his his final visit to the property

I'm so bad at music that I can't see the bad part

Keep that tune handy. Spitfire Audio have a competition for composers coming up. Too soon? ☹️

I have loads of 1 minute ideas which don't seem to go anywhere...and I think this video nails it as to why! Thanks for another really useful video!

It's been 9 minutes and I've made 45 songs! This works!

Your humor cracks me up. Good ideas that are applicable to all genres.

...that's a musical car crash. So genius, there is so much more to learn from your videos than "only" music. Thanks for all of your time doing these great videos!

You write music with so much skill. I can hear those little nuisances in all music I make but never know how to fix it, I just know something is wrong. Compared to what you were looking at mine would sound like a train wreck🤣 I am embarrassed to know so little

Again - just brilliant - when you say each instrument needs its own sonic space, it's a completely different than advice from audio mixing blogs that say to EQ and shape frequencies that clash, but here you're saying just play in different spaces, both in terms of frequency and rhythm, which means there's little need to cut frequencies in the mix. BRILLIANT.

Guy’s videos are acc a form of therapy, I feel so deeply at peace at the end of every video lol

Vibes, drums, bass, and strings work... The piano and guitar make me want to remove my ears. : ) Great tips, video, and commentary! Thanks, Guy

from the start i agree with you , the intro music was just perfect for a lot of bad soap opera that i have seen lately but it is good to listen that, to know how to make a better life , this intro was so boring that it could be a hit for a lost soul , you way to give classes is the contrary , i appreciate a lot how to make learning music a delight , thanks

Who could have thought that making sure your harmonic and rhythmic elements don't clash might make your music better???? MIND. BLOWN.

I just posted your video for my Berklee Class assignment. Good stuff.

Definitely going to take these tips into consideration whilst nextmaking music, Thanks Guy!!

The next time I have to come up with a band name (a task I loathe), "Bang Crash Wallop" will be a strong candidate.

Great video. This has shamed me into going back to something I had technically finished and having another crack at it - the textures were very pretty but no-one can deny that there's a harmonic horror at its heart.

Well, Guy, you just presented the main dilemmas in my writing. Very useful. Thank you so much!

Amazing transformation. I thought it was OK to start but it became quite good. Learned a lot, thank you!

Thanks Guy, for those of us who play by eye with little music training (mostly self), your channel is a treasure trove. Your enthusiasm for music always comes through. Without the discipline of music theory, some of our stuff sounds "lost in space" structurally and harmonically. You pull us back into the the sensible disciplines of music theory. The old synth players like myself often get lost in texture rather than melody, rhythm and harmony and fall into patterns of what we know rather than what we should know. I find your training useful.

I always enjoy the style, as well as the information, on your channel. I wasn’t quite convinced by the instrumentation of this piece. I liked having the viola tune but, to me, the vibes don’t sit well in the ensemble to my amateur ears. I can’t imagine there being much music in written for a band format like this.

15:54 “We’ve worked out what’s important…” that would be the tea, obviously, Guy. 😊 Does anyone else ever just copy the bass part to the drums and force them all to C1, or whatever your kick drum is on, and chop out any passing notes? Sometimes, I find it the best way to lock them together meaningfully.

It's like musically experiencing a building society advert from 20 years ago! ;) Great video.

Musical Car Crash is an amazing band name!

This is absolutely brilliant. So interesting to follow the thought process. (Taking a deep breath and looking at my "Unfinished ideas" folder...)

Oh. I'm watching your channel in order to make my music sound more like yours. It went the other way around and the worst part is I don't even find that music that bad.

I’m no composer but I do enjoy learning some music theory which I think helps me with understanding and playing guitar.

You couldn't be more right in regards to music needing one good idea that stands as the foundation. I develop allot of artists in my line of work and one of the biggest problem I find with bad music is the fact that people send me Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Future Bass and Synthwave etc... which just wanders aimlessly with no direction or meaning. Then I'm asked what I think of the 'drop' in their tune and I have to explain to them that they have sent me four minutes of relentless ideas joined together with no form or function. Cheers!

The first listen to that piece, reminded me of a ridiculous preset demo from a very crappy organ. I loved it.

"that's not a tune, that's a musical carcrash"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣you are just as funny as you are a musical genius Guy! Love your videos and all that there is to learn, you are my favourite teacher ever🎹🎶❤

absolutely love your channel, man. very informative and highly entertaining. can't get enough.

hey, dude...i have see your clips, and you made me better in music,sounds and "progress"...! you are a so good theacher and musican!...respekt!...have a nice 2021...your KrautRockt!er... from germany.. PS: i like your lessions so much!...

A work of music can always do with a little cut and trim and some polish, sometimes you need dynamite to get anything good out of it, thanks to Guy for the inspiring videos.

Fantastic lessons... thanks so much

Thanks so much for this approach! Taking something bad, breaking it down and identifying the badness and showing how to improve it. This is needed just as much as the videos where everything just appears to fall into place. Thank you!

If you have a reverse crash, having it go to silence (nothing) is (to me) a bit awkward and can actually draw MORE attention to it than it deserves. LOL. Now, it can be a cymbal crash but it can also be a nice tasty synth chord hit that fades out, or a noise hit. I consider transitions to be kind of a Question/Answer component in production. Having a question with no answer will draw more attention to it. Just my opinion here. There are some great snippets of advice here. Nice one GM!

I'd love to see a follow up to this explaining how to improve the sound with EQ, effects and a proper mix. In my head i can think of this piece going fully orchestral at some point with some mighty horns blasting out the idea melody. Unfortunately i'm not on the level to make this happen atm. Is anyone else up to this?

Thanks Guy...I'm loving having discovered your videos in recent times..really enjoying them and learning a lot! Thank you. How is the new Komplete keyboard going...I've had my eye on it for a while..still enjoying it?

I hadn't realised previously just how noisy that keybed is.

You are just awesome, Guy! I thoroughly enjoyed watching you work on what is sure to be nominated for the "Annual Lift Music of the Year Awards!"

The Great Baking British-off gave me a serious chuckle.

"The reason it sounds more in time is because it is." Friday Wisdom with Guy :D

Hilarious!! I love your teaching method and wonderful sense of humor Guy!! I had so much fun watching this - you are AWESOME! Thank you 👍😁👍

My friend, you are to me now the Tony Robinson of film scoring :-) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :-)

i really love your humor as you go lol 😅, learning day by day here.

The first motive sounds like ordon village from zelda, beautiful piece

Lift doors open, the crowd is on edge. The announcer goes: "David Beckham is sitting in the back corner, crying. He made it to the penthouse, but he's not proud of it. He is this week's champion, but at what cost?"

Inspirational thanks Guy. Hammers home that I need to learn Cubase and shortcuts a bit better too.

Many LOLz in this video... But my favorite must be: "...we've gone from really obviously awful up to a sort of slight level of nausea. But we're gonna work on it until we get to TRUE MEDIOCRITY!" Quote of the decade with regards to much of the music out there...

that "really bad" music has just became my goal in composing =)))))

A new daytime TV theme for “Seniors’ Seaside Coach Trips” with Judith Chalmers. 😄

this reminds me of the music they play in the airplane before take off. i love it :p

Right then, I'm one minute into the video and I love it simply because you told me to get a coffee! Based on that I'm already thinking about signing up to Thinkspace!

Dude, you're awesome! I've watched a couple of videos now and I'm really digging what you teach. And you make me think of Gordon Gordon Wyatt, from Bones and not just the accent, but the whole attitude, body language and facial expressions. I always thought they should have done a lot more with Gordon Wyatt, but you make up for it. I'm going to watch a lot more on your channel, for sure. ;)

I wouldn't say the tune is 'bad.' It's definitely a lesson about why you shouldn't make things too 'busy' though. That's for sure. :)

Guy, always worry when you have a hot drink hovering over that beautiful keyboard, you have form 😀. Exquisitely enthusiastic and infectiously inspirational. Thank you for sharing your talent and humour. Paul, Kent.

Guy. You brighten my day and I have finally signed up to your Music for the Media Course after first discovering it 20 years ago! However, I don’t think this was as bad as you said it was. Did anyone else prefer the viola and the first tune? I don’t think it was meandering at all. That guitar sound on the other hand is truly awful to my lugoils and the tune changes from a triplet feel to a straight feel in one phrase which doesn’t work for me at all. Also, I love drums that suddenly change to double time. Isn’t all this this spectacularly subjective?

Now now, there is no bad music, it is either interesting or boring. Yes you took a very boring set of sounds and made them more interesting to listen too, but neither is bad. I for can certainly see a time or too in life that I would like to hear the original set of sounds. But then again, if you go to the music on my channel you may very well think I'm full of it. 8 )

I fear this tune will now be stuck in my head all day now.

The concept to start from a bad idea and to fix it was great! I would love to see another video with the same concept. However this time I think that the final version of the song was not so much better than the original one.. PS. I really enjoy your videos! Thank you, Guy :-)

Guy, as a lift music composer of little renown, may I suggest you study my latest album "Mediocre Memories", the sequel to my bestselling "Music to Move Up and Down to"? It certainly gives you something to build on - a bit like landfill ...