Get started making music

Post by joeberon » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 2:56 PM UTC

bregma wrote: post #33

joeberon wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a pretty common beginner's trap, to have your motivation be to release music rather than in creating music itself. For basically any beginner you need many years to get to the point where that should be a consideration. Your main motivation should be fun and enjoyment of making the music. Ironically this is what actually differentiates the greats from those that struggle: the former make music primarily for th…

> Your main motivation should be fun and enjoyment of making the music. It's much like brain surgery. People assume you should start out treating people's illnesses and curing them, but the successful brain surgeons know that you should spend your early years just having fun and enjoy playing around inside people's skulls. It's such a rush the first time you probe someone's central gyrus and see their arms twich. Don…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC

dfxm12 wrote: post #70

I feel like this crowd would be more interested in Pure Data: https://puredata.info/ It's an open source visual programming language for music (with some plug ins for visualizations, too). Years ago, I had fun with it, taking Rock Band guitars and turning them into synths, or "scratching" wav files with a DJ Hero controller.

Post by aw9f70gae » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 3:07 PM UTC

323 wrote: post #60

jerrygoyal wrote: post #6

I always liked listening to edm and when I first got to know that you just need a laptop and DAW to make tracks the idea of becoming an edm artist sounded exciting and glamorous to me. (like alan walker, martin grx) I installed FL Studio and tried my hand on making some beats ( https://youtube.com/channel/UClKt2vzomuegCDA45SU6FbA/videos ). Before I spent too much time on it I released it's actually less about making…

> you just need a laptop and DAW to make tracks You just need pen and paper to unify gravity and quantum mechanics. You just need a laptop to write the next TikTok. > less about making catchy beats and more about the marketing That's a common complaint from unsuccessful artists. Michael Jackson spent a ton of money on marketing his last album and it was a total flop.

Post by codedokode » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 3:37 PM UTC

dfxm12 wrote: post #70

I feel like this crowd would be more interested in Pure Data: https://puredata.info/ It's an open source visual programming language for music (with some plug ins for visualizations, too). Years ago, I had fun with it, taking Rock Band guitars and turning them into synths, or "scratching" wav files with a DJ Hero controller.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 3:44 PM UTC

drorco wrote: post #31

beezischillin wrote: post #16

A small anecdote: Back when I was still a little kid I had an awful music teacher in school. He would throw all the theory on the whiteboard but never explained how it actually relates to the music itself. I would've loved to know so I asked how this strange mathematical stuff of 4/4ths makes music and he told me to learn it or I'd fail but nothing actually relating to my question. So I always had a bit of antipathy…

Sometimes teachers have a negative net value huh? Brings up the point that if the education system can't properly teach a subject, maybe we're all better better off with it just not teaching the subject.