Steven Wilson: How to Increase Creativity

Porcupine Tree songwriter/producer shares easiest way to make fresh music.
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Hack Music Theory is the fast, easy and fun way to make music. Taught by multi-award-winning music lecturer Ray Harmony, and his protégé wife Kate. Ray started teaching music theory in 1995, and has made music with Serj Tankian (System Of A Down), Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), Devin Townsend, Ihsahn, and more!
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© 2022 Revolution Harmony
Revolution Harmony is Ray Harmony & Kate Harmony
Script & all music in video by Revolution Harmony
All stock footage courtesy of Pexels

[@HackMusicTheory]

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[@JasonKeisling]

I love the idea of playing on a different instrument than what you're used to in order to come up with something different. It reminds me of an old Hack Music Theory video on guitar riffs where Ray wrote the guitar riff in MIDI and then learned it on guitar afterward. Using MIDI probably helped come up with some things that just noodling around on guitar wouldn't have. Loving all your content. Keep it coming!

[@LooMinn]

Wonderful insights from Steve Wilson. btw- Ray, you have great listening skills. There's a lesson in itself; a truly good musician knows how to listen. (Just sayin')

[@Denver_Risley]

Starting a song with bass lines like that, for me, creates such an exciting foundation for crazy jazz chase scene music. Anything that needs fast-paced, frenetic excitement, even at just 100 BPM it can get wild.

[@bolillo5013]

Steve’s ideas in this video are much better take than some of the other ones he’s spoken about lol

[@talbrott]

bass riffs are an end in themselves

[@TheSpeenort]

I'm primarily a bass player, so when I write chords I tend to harmonize a rudimentary bass line. The result is that my songs all have really complex chord structures. Then when I lay down a bass track I don't want to simply follow the chord structure, and that gets complicated too.

[@correametal]

Loving these videos so much! Thank you guys for making this possible.

[@disillutmusic]

As someone who played guitar for years before switching to bass recently, this is great advice! I can 100% agree that even if I play something similar to something I would play on the guitar, it just comes across so differently because of string spacing/tension/tone that I often find myself becoming more inspired, leading to better tunes overall.

[@HAZARDOUS88]

Very interesting perspective. Thanks!

[@liquidsolids9415]

Great stuff, as usual. Thanks!

[@bruteaxe9817]

bit relatable i am currently making a remix and made bassline on just top of vocals and when i add drums it didnt fit it felt too much for simple verse and bit complex bass so there is no drums till pre chorus for like 45 seconds

[@seedbarrett6853]

Where Colin

[@Zetsuke4]

Hi Ray and Kate Harmony can you please teach us the process of publishing music? I want to sell my music but don't want to sign contract to be part of a company.

[@hleet]

in J-POP music style, the bass playing solo is quite normal ... it's a like a revelation for the US lol

[@rachelar]

So they fired/"let go" the aussie bass player