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Beauty Behind The Beat

"Artists notice the little things done in works that make a certain project so good."

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Beauty Behind The Beat
Jaelyn Cornel

There's a certain giddiness I and most who love music feel when we hear a beat that's just wild beyond words. Whether you're a producer, singer, or avid music listener, you tend to hear the little bells, jingles, and any sound that carries a song for the next 3-5 minutes (more or less). It's passion at that point. It amazes me that not only can these idiosyncrasies be heard from such seasoned ears, but can be incorporated into music the way it is. I can't help but throw an ALL CAPS message to my friend I'm talking to at the time and freak all the way out over how well put together a certain production is. I think this feeling resides deep in all artist, and anybody who has a passion towards something they love to do. Artists notice the little things done in works that make a certain project so good.

Around ninth or tenth grade of high school, I started music production as a hobby. Funny enough it was never the hip-hop or pop style beats that I was into, but more so electronic music only because of how diverse I saw it could be. How easy it can be blended into other genres such as jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and more. Three years later not only have I bettered myself, but I'm learning the little intricacies behind every song that I so happen to love. My ear has become attuned to hearing the little chord changes, the lower-volumed instruments in the back, the samples, and certain complexities that my favorite producers love to include in every one of their pieces of art. It's almost never the older producers either. The one's that constantly make me scream in my chair like a crazed boy-band fangirl are the young prodigies a lot of this generation has yet to explore. The 17-year-olds to the 21-year-olds that use Doris Day samples in their productions, that make EP's that takes you on a journey and makes you feel, that take a song your mom bumped in the whip 10 years ago and give it a whole different tone and feel. And oddly enough, they're some of the best at what they do. The fact that they can be so diverse at a young age, and have that ear like that is what inspires me to keep going.

Being an artist and having a creative drive in any art form can and will almost always give you this certain feeling of "How did they do that?" or "What did they use to get it that way?", and it's almost always going to suck because that person has found them self in their craft. They've learned to advance and tweak those little things that make it so good, because when you get so into a certain passion you learn to bring these ideas to life in the most advanced way possible, with every little detail you can. So even if your friends have no idea what you're talking about because of a certain synth someone uses, or a certain style someone paints, or a certain angle a photo was taken, it's okay because you know the work put into it to make it great and you will take that follow your own path.

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