I'm teaching one-on-one lessons if you want to work on your music with me! benlevinmusicschool.com/p/lessons

Ben it was a privilege to work with you, and fun also! Thanks for the help and all the inspiration

@jamesrichardson8151

Ай бұрын

Hey - love your videos :-) so good to see you in a Ben Levin vid

@JusticeCow

Ай бұрын

Very cool one take rhythm exercise! Also love the cross over video on your channel, Jake!

@PivasRox

28 күн бұрын

I love you both, you guys are amazing

Thanks for new radiohead track

"As and experiment, think about what you've spent the most time learning, and try to hide it in your music rather than feature it front and center" Phenomenal advice!

The dynamics test is a great tip! I’m going to try to play my hardest song as softly as I can.

Steve Reich has some music like this - difficult to play but relaxing to listen to. Some pieces that come to mind are Nagoya Marimbas, Piano Phase and Mallet Quartet

@nelsondrums5135

27 күн бұрын

To me Music for 18 Musicians is his most relaxing piece

5:56 got a Reich kinda minimalistic vibe there, cool!

I unconsciously count every music I hear. Regardless of how relaxed you were while playing, this piece will kick me out of any relaxed state I am in - "WHAT METER IS THIS???".

@silphv

28 күн бұрын

Me too but I find counting relaxing sometimes.

“This seems impossible, so I have to try it”

Ben just made neurodivergent ear candy

@chromaticswing9199

Ай бұрын

Sounds like another way to describe math rock haha

@bobimnottellin362

Ай бұрын

Sounds like how you'd describe his entire musical career. To be clear, that is complimentary.

@LLitterally

29 күн бұрын

King Crimson Discipline

@killermetalwolf2843

29 күн бұрын

@@chromaticswing9199 yeah, i was like "... this is just plini"

Love how much you've grown as a producer and tutor Ben, you've always been incredible and will continue to do incredible things. It seems lately you're just in a perfect stride for insight and content and I'm here for it. Thanks mate, respect the hell out of you and your work.

Love having you back, Ben. Can't afford your courses or private classes but your videos are always incredibly inspiring and innovative. Thank you so much for coming back!

your creativity is yet unmatched. Go on Ben!

Some moments in that really sounded like they were straight off In Rainbows, well done!

Came here from Mr Signals channel & you know why - great tune as well!!

Ben, I've been using your lessons lately to write with my pocket operators, and my "music" has become even stranger than I could ever imagine. Thank you for that. It should be interesting, incorporating this video into what I'm doing.

2 step forward and one step back. A good concept for a composition/improvisation.

This HAS to be somewhere I can listen to when I study. It was able to bring me stillness and calmness while sufficing the needs of my easily distracted brain that insists on thinking of multiple things at the same time I need more of this in my life

I love this so much! So much so called "relaxing" music out there is just so simple and repetitive that I find it distracting (and boring), whereas this really is relaxing but gives my brain something interesting to latch onto at the same time. Lovely work!

Great, now put it in 32edo with C=432hz But for real, this is truly inspiring to see you pull off. Incredible.

You’re such a legend man. Keep being odd.

comment for the algorithm. thanks for expanding my horizons.

Ben commented that we should try to hide a difficult technique / passage that learned to master. This allows to generate contrasts, dynamics and differences between song sections and songs. To me that is critical for music. Furthermore, playing same tricky thing over and over gives an impression that it is the only thing you know. Playing it once gives an impression that "Dude has tons of tricks, but he does not bother to show them all".

Musical habits. I never noticed it before but good idea to be aware of it.

Thank you Ben! =)

I know a relaxing song with complicated rhythms! Toby Driver - Glyph. :)

@Fire-Toolz

Ай бұрын

toby ruuuuules

I think Melodic Breakcore/ Jungle would've been perfect for this challenge

It’s somehow relaxing and super intense at the same time

Love this! Also i got nostalgia for old Cornelius songs from your track...

Thanks for the relaxed playing advice!

I love this idea - and I think you executed it well. For me personally where these pieces fell short of 'relaxing' was in the timbre. The guitar tone whistling notes in the piece in 5 took me out of it, as did the synth tone in the piece in 9.

i cant belive the quality of bens videos and online identity both as a youtuber and a musician.

This is Brilliant man. Nice and big thanks for sharing all of this.

Great stuff Ben! You're a great teacher!

Ben, I am so grateful for all of the things that you put out into the world! You have deeply influenced how I think about being creative, and it's also always such a joy to see what you come up with

This was great, I’m a drummer but loved doing this in guitar eventually I learned it and didn’t have to think of the rhythic technicalities of it.. Shoved it on the kit after this.. great thing to learn thanks..

beautiful and educational 😊

Thanks brother! Your vids mean a lot to many. Very informative, in an extremely unique way. Cheers man!

I love how this sounds like the quiet moments in TTNG ❤️

EPIC video!

this video is amazing

Great work, this is the touch inspiring music I needed today

why is this so calming🥺🔥🔥

I’ve also had the thought of trying to make a super stressful song with something like a bossa nova beat which is really relaxing usually.

@silphv

28 күн бұрын

That sounds pretty hard. We know crunchy chords won't do it alone, bossa loves crunchy and makes it sound smooth somehow. How fast am I allowed to crank it? lol

@silphv

28 күн бұрын

I feel like you could play cat-on-a-piano chords but if they sat in a bossa nova groove at a low/mid tempo I would still feel like I'm on the beach chilling

Reminds me of the soundtrack to the french film “savage planet”

Interesting concept

Thank you for the sleepy music fellow Ben

Thank you, Dr. Levin! ❤

I feel a bit of Steve Reich at the end. Very nice!!

Sounds lovely Ben!

Epic job by both of you!

I love what you do and your ideas so much, I know whenever I watch one of your videos, I'm going to leave with so much inspiration. Thank you for all you're doing

Good advice as always, Ben

amazing video and tips, you are the best!!

damn, freak machine truly was lifetimes ago :c

Ambient Dillinger Escape Plan vibes at the end

genius! 👏

what in the math rock!? (that's beautiful)

hell yeah.

Instant sub. Wonderful - engaging - beautiful - magical. Cheers. Lee

Amazing! I would love to listen your old band group music! How can I find it?

Was just looking at your channel and saw you uploaded just now! what a coincidence

some thall over this beauty would be incredible

you just discovered math rock

Idk why, but one of the sounds used kinda sounds like a duplicant breathing in oxygen not included and I cannot unhear it

I mean, this is kind of the idea behind liquid DnB and some breakcore

Humanity is doomed to keep inventing minimalism

@YuutaShinjou113

20 күн бұрын

that can sound like a bad thing, maybe?

How much can I pay for full Freak Machine scores, for at least one instrument, like guitar, drums or bass ?

Intense looking musicians playing ambient music you say? Have you tried watching a live video of Sunn O)))?

this is like, math rock?

* cough cough * djent

Soooooooo Chopin/Philip Glass?

So... King Crimson?

This is so emo math rock

0:40 Is so lovely I’d like to sleep to this ..

@zopoulos1187

Ай бұрын

Excited to learn new things

@zopoulos1187

Ай бұрын

4:18 😍

Rhythic…😂

I do not like that rhythm at all!

Some-thing... 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝓁 happened here?

soooooo "shoemath" 😸

You great emo music