Using STRESSFUL rhythms to make RELAXING music

[@BenLevin]

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

[@SignalsMusicStudio]

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

[@jamesrichardson8151]

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

[@JusticeCow]

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

[@PivasRox]

I love you both, you guys are amazing

[@Yamoboure]

Thanks for new radiohead track

[@jacobmillen751]

Haha the instant he was talking about relaxing music that is complicated to play I thought of Pyramid Song

[@Sollys3]

"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!

[@kjetilbirkeland1]

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]

To me Music for 18 Musicians is his most relaxing piece

[@RTFosmark]

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

[@TheCastagne]

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

[@flake8382]

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.

[@MoeThermodynamics]

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!

[@anomymouse5043]

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".

[@JakHart]

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.

[@clagius7486]

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]

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]

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

[@herrvierkoetter]

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

[@shentakuki]

The new 9/8 thing is so good! Sounds very much like Philip Glass

[@jackclay5565]

Ben i want a full version of the relaxing piece so bad

[@fugithegreat]

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!

[@ajadrew]

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

[@Arashinx]

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

[@hananc]

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]

Me too but I find counting relaxing sometimes.

[@ChordLord]

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

[@justinhawes1593]

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

[@TransporteDonCorleone]

your creativity is yet unmatched. Go on Ben!

[@RyanBeTheName]

Thanks for the relaxed playing advice!

[@dunehaggar7495]

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

[@onespinable]

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..

[@PatrickHaeslerMusic]

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.

[@Ashley-jp4nn]

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

[@michaelakortia]

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

[@MsErfwe]

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

[@PlanetaryResetMusic]

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

[@Reapertips]

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

[@alexanderkonczal3908]

comment for the algorithm. thanks for expanding my horizons.

[@SingSkateScream]

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

[@lypths]

why is this so calming🥺🔥🔥

[@hiramrodriguez3705]

Thank you Ben! =)

[@Nexus2k]

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

[@Oswlek]

Great channel, Ben, you have such a refreshing approach. Regarding this vid, I would love to hear a version of the first relaxing song with the first two portions looped a few times and the latter, faster half brought in as an escalation.

[@thesunatnight1898]

This is like my church and ben is my pastor

[@BEN-us7ue]

Thank you for the sleepy music fellow Ben

[@SuperGroat]

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

[@NickBDesigns]

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

[@Rubberpoliceman1]

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

[@venahtmusic]

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

[@Fire-Toolz]

toby ruuuuules

[@BarceMessi]

this video is amazing

[@wheelnsky]

Great stuff Ben! You're a great teacher!

[@KevinTPLim]

beautiful and educational 😊

[@BuddyNova]

Thank you, Dr. Levin! ❤

[@ddogg9255]

Good advice as always, Ben

[@shermandonger1908]

EPIC video!

[@samuelaking]

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

[@andorrasrevenge1683]

Sounds lovely Ben!

[@fnlmhm]

amazing video and tips, you are the best!!

[@SirFancy]

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

[@JuhoSprite]

Interesting concept

[@DaveZnoise]

Epic job by both of you!

[@iosmusicman]

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

[@-k-b-]

Ambient Dillinger Escape Plan vibes at the end

[@kassih.musica]

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

[@RaptorT1V]

genius! 👏

[@deadgamerx]

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

[@jj8703]

hell yeah.

[@Beatsbasteln]

you just discovered math rock

[@intranexine8901]

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

[@salvadorrivera8560]

Cowboy Cafe - Who’s Holdin’ the Horse

[@vicariousfr]

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

[@Francidium]

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

[@ItsMiaaa]

damn, freak machine truly was lifetimes ago :c

[@nilfeliu1819]

4:06 got me peacefully agonized

[@vapaytplay1288]

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

[@mujona419]

Humanity is doomed to keep inventing minimalism

[@nutnurut4260]

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

[@hahhey1372]

Soooooooo Chopin/Philip Glass?

[@esosentriccrow3086]

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

[@Notgoodsky]

some thall over this beauty would be incredible

[@XXIII_89]

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

[@nyuh]

this is like, math rock?

[@master_miller]

So... King Crimson?

[@zopoulos1187]

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

[@zopoulos1187]

Excited to learn new things

[@zopoulos1187]

4:18 😍

[@Rayo75]

This is so emo math rock

[@The_Hella_honker]

* cough cough * djent

[@onespinable]

Rhythic…😂

[@myshootinggallery3703]

I do not like that rhythm at all!

[@lunafoxfire]

Some-thing... 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝓁 happened here?

[@vandorb12]

Ben just made neurodivergent ear candy

[@chromaticswing9199]

Sounds like another way to describe math rock haha

[@bobimnottellin362]

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

[@apparitionight]

King Crimson Discipline

[@killermetalwolf2843]

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

[@jackclay5565]

Ben i want a full version of the relaxing piece so bad