Internet Gold | How Does Music Work? Wie Geht Eigentlich Musik | Marti Fischer - Cyberpunk 2077

My Internet Gold series has dealt quite a bit with the topic "music" so far -- in one way or another. And today, I present to you:

Some more music. 😅

But this time we approach the topic entirely from a different angle: We start from scratch and build up a song. And we do it in a different language: The video is in German. But honestly, I am pretty sure that everybody will be able to follow along. The reason is that Germans have the habit of adopting lots of English words. (Why waste time reinventing the wheel -- right?)

Let's play a game!

Guess what "sound" means in German!
Answer: "Sound".

Guess what "synthesizer" means in German!
Answer: "Synthesizer".

Guess what "kick", "snare" and "hi hat" mean in German!
Answer: "Kick", "snare" and "hi hat".

Guess what "bass guitar" means in German!
Answer: Bassgitarre.

You get the point, right?

Of course, not everything is exactly the same. But most music specific words in the video are.

Ok, with that out of the way,

let's watch the video:

By the way, this song is the inspiration for the above video:

Want more?

Marti Fischer uses music genres or specific songs for inspiration and builds up original songs which are inspired by the song or which are typical/ representative for the entire genre.

He has a video pretty much for every music genre you can think of. Here is how to find them:

Type into YouTube's search

wie geht eigentlich Musik

and add the genre you're interested in, for instance "grunge".

Therefore, we type in

wie geht eigentlich Musik grunge

and we end up with the following video:

Alternatively, you can browse the videos on his YouTube channel -- which you find here.

I have to admit that not all of his videos are easy to understand for a non-German-speaker. But if you skip the intros and go straight to the music making, you will probably find the videos really rewarding.

Still want more?

I have to admit, I have one problem with Marti Fischer:

He always teases his audience with brilliant songs -- and he never finishes them. 😬

I actually went through one of his videos and cut out all the song snippets that he put in there in an effort to combine them to a finished song, but my editing skills -- and his snippets -- did not suffice. Which is a pity! His song snippets are great.

Y U like?

Before I watched every single one of his videos, I never knew what I heard when I listened to music. It all sounded convoluted and meshed together. All was one indiscernable dough of different sounds.

Hearing how a song is created step by step -- or layer by layer -- really helped me to identify what goes into the music dough and I started hearing its individual musical ingredients. 

That's why I am such a fan of this type of videos -- and we will revisit this topic again in a future installment of the "Internet Gold" series. Stay tuned! I do have a nice lineup of cool content and won't run out of ideas any time soon. 😉 But:

Do you have a suggestion on what I should feature next? 

Did you like the song Marti wrote?

Were you able to follow along as a non-German-speaker?

Let me know in the comments!