 Hey, it's Anfa, and you're watching Anfa Rambling Indefinitely. Today, I want to solder some broken headphone jack and tell you about my perspective on music components, planes of music, like the dimensions of musical compositions or musical works that make them what they are and that we can use to classify them and also figure out what do we want to focus most on Or what needs more attention to make our music better? Yeah, I just I was talking to myself About this for the past like half an hour or more and I've realized that I could record that and it could be useful for someone Instead of me just telling it myself. I already know that So You know, I have this I have this I have these headphones these headphones you might recognize them I use them in all my videos and I broke the jack like I It just was looking like this Not a good sign, right? And it doesn't really work that well, so I had to cut it off and I bought A new one Which is this Which is new trick or what's the what's they? Rian Yeah, Rian a brand of new trick something like that And I'm trying to basically solder it in however the only Sutter, so right in but the only Device I have for that job is This very one very very hardcore device I don't know if you can see the smoke. Can you see the smoke or smoke here, right? So yeah, so the thing is that What I what I'm gonna tell you is not something I have learned on in any school or I have read somewhere or Or someone told me or whatever What I'm gonna tell you is basically what I have figured out like Just thinking and making music and a lot of different projects for a lot of different things Different genres and listening to a lot of music and this is kind of my It's kind of my breakdown of How can you all how can you bring this all together and like differentiate different Types of music and different artists and figure out what you like and music you listen to So the thing is I would define in my mind kind of a Set of different layers or planes of music That would be you know like song structure or melody harmony rhythm Timber and lyrics and these are like These are like layers of information that you put into music that come that make it what it is for example If you have a music with no melody, it's got to be all A tonal right there is no melody, but you can still make music you can make music with our melody and it can be Very this decent and sometimes going for a music that has no melody for example for Video games or movies for some parts making a piece that has no melody is the best piece you can put that or you know For example, we have this big division of vocal and instrumental music at least I feel so like We have music that revolves around someone singing and we have music that just revolves around the instruments doing their job And I would treat a human voice or a singer's voice as just another instrument However, that instrument has something very unique and it adds a whole new layer to the music which is the lyrics By the way, I have a borrowed pair of the same headphone model from a friend Who came over and I taught him LMS basics and zeno sub effects basics and he is Still waiting for me to return them, but Yeah It's gonna take some time Crap these these don't do their job very well. I think I need to get another pair have a bunch of them Which one's gonna work so for example When I when you listen to Nero funk music like Noisia the Dutch trio If you have been listening to their music, I would say that their music is highly focused around rhythm and timber Which This is like this is their thing rhythm and sound design making interesting timbers textures Chromatic chromatic music one could say based around Timbers not around melodies melodies are rather sparse in their music. I mean, I would say that they're rather minimal Of course, this is all an approximation because you know, they have pieces which are very melodic and also pieces that have a lot of harmony Also some interesting harmony But the majority of their sound as we think of it is Based on the rhythm and the timber on the earth side for example, if you think about something like Dream Theater, which is a prog metal band very well known Their music is very heavily based on rhythm also, but also heavily based on melody and harmony and It adds lot vocals like a lot, you know Noisia has some vocals so the plan the vocal plane is there But usually their music doesn't rely on that. It's it's just an additional thing. It's just a Just something to To help the whole thing punch more It's not it's not the main dish. And if you think about for example, most pop music most pop music is heavily based on lyrics and magic vocal vocals and Melodies I would say No, that's not true actually not actually rhythm rhythm rhythm and vocals and the melodies are like the third component for example It turns out that rap is super popular because rap Rap is most focused on lyrics and rhythm and these are the things that the most people can easily understand and car and appreciate you don't have to have good Pitch recognition to be able to admire this music You only need to be able to understand speech, which is every peep everybody on the planet Who speaks a language and you only need to be able to appreciate rhythm and the rhythms are very strong and Rather simplistic, I would say they are not like, you know, some crazy intelligent brain like brain-dance EDM IDM Crazy breakbeat stuff. No the rhythms in rap are are funky, but they're rather slow. So they're also a rather easy to to absorb Also, the the modern rap is very heavily influenced by trap music, which is also kind of like I guess the natural extension of rap when The rappers especially the black ones from USA are just you know, just going merging with the electronic dance music Scene kind of this is what I at least this is how I view that so I also thought about talking a bit about song structures because this is one of the layers and This is something very hard to grasp I guess for new people especially I don't actually like using the word song because Using the word song implies that It's a vocal piece of music Well, it can be an instrumental piece of music piece of music. Is it that the better word? I don't know Also, I'm to say something else, but I forgot what it was and these these things these these wires are just just just the worst You know, they're so tiny. I Just I've been starring Big Jack big jacks like these and XLRs like I'm not gonna show you because I have them plugged would do the mics and Well, man, this they are easy compared to that This is so tiny and also the I'm not sure if this is gonna even solder well I'm just afraid I'm gonna be trying to do this forever and it's not gonna work now So this is stereo. She's the pain in the butt because I have four wires. All right, so the song structure for example a typical song structure would be intro first verse chorus second verse bridge or solo and then another chorus and outro That's like the most basic template that you can write any song within and it's gonna It should work well Because it's pretty pretty simple. There is some repetition But there is some parts that are no repetitive because you have read the repetitive parts Which is which are the song of the verses and the choruses Also the intro and outro could be very similar to make a Kind of an accolade around the whole composition so the beginning is Directly referencing the end or the end is directly referencing the beginning of the piece Which creates a nice feeling in the listener and this is also used in many other forms of art like writing and some structures There's a funny way of expressing some structures Which I really like because it's a very like, you know a basic thing that is quite easy to understand And this is with letters of the alphabet. So you basically Name each unique Section of a song of a musical composition its own letter starting from a B and etc So if you are if your song has only verses and choruses You name the first appearing block a and the next Different block B. So you have a for verses and B for choruses and you have a B a B structure which is a verse chorus verse chorus and you can easily in just one string of letters Describe the major features of the whole composition, which is very Cool, I guess because you can also discuss some structures with people very easily with this You don't have to use, you know weird names and just, you know Break it up too much you can just use letters and Oh man, this doesn't want to trim should I burn this? Can I have this White fluffy stuff just everywhere and wow, what can I do with that these headphones are actually My future wives And I broke them so that sucks I need to fix them Because well that sucks if you break something that you borrow I could just buy another pair, but that would be a waste of money because these Like they could be fixed so why not fix them this is ground Yeah, so this is kind of a system which I use to think about music And describe music to myself and like Think about how what I like about some people's music What I don't like for example, I I really admire the rhythm and the sound design of noisiest music But I lack melody and harmony in there in that in there And I would and for example that is why I really like savance music because it's rich In all the planes right it's It's so full of everything And I really like that because you can really listen to his music Over and over and you discover different things on different planes of the musical in the musical space as you might say and It keeps it's it's still being interesting because he is using Very very interesting sound design. So that's timber Or the chromatic layer, I would say chroma meaning color This is why chromatic scale is called the chromatic scale because it has all the colors of the 12 tone Eastern European music Tuning system that you can use and in a piece So it it's all the colors chroma. So that hands the chromatic scale Oh man, I think I'm gonna do this Look at that. I am so going to do this This is the ground thing Oh, shit Am I Man, yeah, I really like savance music. He's a Norwegian producer Who has been diagnosed with a spurgers, I guess And hence his name At least that's what the the people say or the wikipedia and he is He's just creating music at amazing pace putting out full-length albums like every He was putting out full-length album like every six months That is Absolutely insane Sheesh, what am I gonna do? I think I should just lock down some of that just just the ground. I'm gonna look just the ground with the With the thing the thing What a great name for a thing a thing the thing. It's not a thing. It's a the thing I'm gonna give you a better view on the thing Maybe that's a better view or overall on everything. Yeah, sweet little Thing So yeah, because he uses interesting interesting Very interesting parts together. It's interesting on many many planes I think my music is also interesting in many planes. I know people are very Liking the rhythms I put in my music, but I also very heavily try to push my sound design and Composition melodies and harmonies all the time So I'm you know, I'm trying to develop on all the planes also the vocal plane The lyrical plane, which is kind of you know, like Additional. It's not like the the main thing I do. I mainly focus on on the music being instrumental and And being valuable as instrumental music the vocals are kind of added However, I hope they are And I I try to make them Good if you add them make them really good. So I record a lot Oh man, this is terrible. I'm gonna How on earth am I going to do this? So if you if you think for example That you don't see a field of developing your music skills Think about all the fields all the planes all the different aspects of your music Are you nailing the rhythm? Are you nailing the melody? Are you nailing the harmony? Can you do interesting things with chords? Can you do interesting things with synths? With sound design, can you can you do interesting things with the timbre of the vocal like, you know playing with pitch shifters compression, you know octave stacking Formant processing this kind of thing Can you do that stuff? because You know thinking about these these planes also helps you find room to To learn to expand to to to make your music more interesting All right. I have two wires in hulls The third wire I'm gonna solder this right now. I don't care what's gonna happen next like the third wire Edge is gonna stay there. It just has to A big moment. Oh crap. I have paper and you put paper under this. I hope You're not considering this a waste of time watching me solder. I'm not very skilled with that Or experienced a ton. All right, there is hope In the galaxy Yeah, I think the payload of the video is over I can just stay and watch me solder ramble on Oh dropping solder Did it catch? Come on Oh, shit I know what I have to do. I have to Relay the whole thing. All right So at least I have the the wire locked in place It's not gonna go anywhere because it has a big lump of solder on top of it So no way for it to escape Hope it's gonna be good. See this wire This loose one it should be in that hole that I I I have no way of inserting it there I don't know. This doesn't look very good I'm going to insert this shit. I wonder if there's someone that you can send your headphones to and jack And they're gonna solder it for you. That would be great. I think I need a needle I don't have an oh, I have a needle Not a needle, but I have this that is the tool for the job brilliant. Oh crap Shouldn't go there, right? Oh Fuck it's terrible Terrible All right before I put this together Let's put it to the test This works and this doesn't So I have one channel fuck Why this is no better than I what I had before Doesn't do anything for me, right? So frustrated with this thing. I have probably destroyed my plug And I haven't fixed my Headphone still. So what the fuck? How can I now undo this link there? I have a part of this that is Soldered together that should not be I guess or maybe it doesn't matter. I don't know. Oh I know what This could be working. My headphone extension could be broken instead It is working Fabulous Look at that poor job. It works Hey, I just have to somehow make it fitable into This little guy I have to screw this up I don't know how That is such a relief that it works. Maybe I should reflow some of the solder Let's heat it up and make it Maybe it's gonna make it smaller. I think I'm lacking some basic tools to do this kind of thing I think I need a hammer hammer time I would say can shape it. I hope that's not gonna break my solder. Okay, let's test the thing. Does it still work? It does Fantastic, sounds very good. Okay now it has all these, you know, bulks here and there. Come on Flatten flatten, please. Oh, shit Ah It doesn't look good. Can you see that? It does look good My adventures with this plug are not over. Oh, man I'm gonna be hot right now. Can't touch this listening test Left we have right good. I'm basically testing them by monitoring what I'm recording Why is this thing so ill shaped? What the heck? Huh now that would could technically work as a plug, but I'm gonna do with this thing. This is not good Why replacing a headphone jack is so difficult? I know they want you to buy new headphones, but man, I should have a grinder and just grind this off Maybe I have some sandpaper like you use for that Going to look for some sandpaper. I have got no sandpaper However, I have found this Which could have been very useful a few minutes ago This shit doesn't work. Oh man. No, this just feels wrong. What am I gonna do? I need something to grind it against all I have is this I don't really think that's gonna do it much I'm gonna get back to this tomorrow because I'm out of ideas and time for this thing today So there's the unfinished plug. Hopefully it's gonna work. So I hope you've learned something Thanks for watching I hope this wasn't a big Waste of time, but maybe it was a pleasant relaxing video for you to watch. I don't know Let me know. Let me know if you want to watch me ramble While doing some oh wait wait wait, it's gonna fit Please just just fit and and be done, right? Right just once almost there. This is just the last turn, right? Come on Come on I have this and now if I put some mechanical installation between This and the plug I should be able to hold it tightly without Breaking it Yeah, I guess I'm stuck with this plug Not completely screwed Maybe that's a good thing. So Mission accomplished Good work Well done. I I judge this to be kind of Partial success Yeah, it is a success because the headphones work They don't look Fantastic yet, but they work I'll see you in the next video Bye I made it Actually, what it needed was just a little bit of a rasp work To um cut down the extra solder And that and then it just it just perfectly beautifully screws up It screws up perfectly Right till the end and it looks beautiful I'm so happy So it's fixed. All right, and then that's all I wanted to show you. It's basically yeah go now Bye. I'll make some music Make some music