Music Making Blog — Computer Music Making | Make music like you’re playing a game!

Creating music isn’t a really hard process. It’s a pleasant, well-emotional and a nice activity, when you can take many positive emotions. To start making your own masterpieces, you need:

1. Decide a style of your future composition. It will be acid jazz? Or electro house? May be it will be a piano compositon? Ambient? Any another?

2. Ask your friend, who have a musical educational about what is tempo, octave,  what is 4/4 and what is measure. Practically, I  can’t explain it to you. I need to gesticulate, but this is only a blog! =))

3. Turn on your dictaphone and sing your track on it. Yes, like this “la-la-la, laaa-laaaa”, nothing more! It will be your crib and a big help not to forget your own cool song!

4. Download and install some music program. For beginners, i recommend Acid Pro. Or you can use a program “Propellerheads Reason”. It’s one of my main instruments to work. Soon I’ll record some screencast how to make your first music composition with this programs! You can also use a software like Cakewalk Pro Audio, or Cakewalk Sonar. Don’t even think to use software like eJay or some another monkey music making software!

4. Use the drum loops and some sound effects - make main arrangement.

5. Try to make your melody on it. If it can’t be done (And usually It can’t be done) forgot your dictaphone record :) and draw another melody. In a hour of try and error you’ll see a something like music.

6. Make a copies of your great melody on a while track, add a copies in another musical instrument, for example bass, lead synth.

7. To make a progressive sound, add some effects and use automates on it.

Maybe it’s very hard. Hm, but it’s a game! Making music is a game! Look on this like that, and you’ll get a fantastic results! Be optimistic!

Soon I’ll post here some screencasts to show you that the music creation is not very hard and very-very pleasant.  Be happy!

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