How does one learn and create music?

How does one learn and create music?

What kind of music you talking about?

>buy keyboard
>hit random combinations and orders of keys
>learn what sounds good
>play that more

education

The best

> find your genre
> youtube tutorials

In my experience it's pointless to specifically study composition. In the end you're going to want to create the music in your head based on your tastes, and no instructor will really help you do that unless you're working one on one. The best way I have found to really begin creating the music I wanted to create is by taking your favorite works and dissecting them very precisely.
Understand how certain notes in certain songs make you feel and why they do that. Then mess around with those in your own way. After a while you'll compile a lexicon of musical vocabulary from all your experience and you can bring it together to form a new blend of sound. This of course depends on your your preferred genres, if you're doing electronic music an instrument isn't so necessary but I would recommend it. An instrument connects you to the music more directly by projecting it in corporeal form, this makes writing and conveying things easier in my opinion.

How to make is easy. Finding the right software tho i have no idea. Anyone know any good music making software?

Holy shit this is consice

cubase works for everyone. FL studio and Reason are great for electronic.

Be talented and creative and have at least a little bit knowledge about music theory, otherwise you will face many problems. Also, if you want to produce, watch many tutorials and brows forums, there are many specific forums for different genres and many step by step tutorials for beginners.

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1. Learn to play on an/some instrument/s
2. Listen to a LOT of music, but not just the one genres you like
3. Try to analyze said music
4. Learn music theory, whatever anyone says it's really helpful
5. ?????
6. PROFIT!

>asks Sup Forums how to create music instead of searching the web with the phrase:"create music lessons".

idk OP, but I think you're doing it all wrong in obtaining information.

by sucking cock, duh.

Also, the production and writing process are very different but go hand in hand. Sound design is a central part of modern music and you must also exercise your ability to create a certain sound. It's different for every genre but a good starting point is to once again mimic the sound of your favorite artists and go from there. Learn what each effect does in isolation and then start pairing them together, also learn the whole range of possibility by covering the whole spectrum of each setting.
This all can sound really daunting but it should never feel like a chore, just fuck around honestly, it's like learning a language. You're going to learn best when you act like a child and just babble random shit as best as you can. Eventually,with a lot of practice, you'll be able to form coherent, maybe even beautiful complete sentences, words, paragraphs, and so forth. So don't be afraid to fuck around and have fun.
The endless possibilities of music should inspire you to discover one of countless new ways to express yourself and your tastes, never be overwhelmed by the possibilities.

While this post and your follwing one have many fine examples from the likes of J.S. Bach to Jaco Pastorius, I wouldn't discount the effectiveness of formal study. The methods you learn can be applied to any style or genre.

For me it was learning guitar at a young age and then learning bass guitar, all self taught. I learned songs and then got into using tabs to learn songs. From there I decided to just start writing my own. Writing songs is pretty basic if you already know how to play some instruments. Don't bother with music theory. Just learn what works. 4 chord song structures, using the correct notes in scales, use 4/4 time to start out and for most songs, etc etc

it's in your mind. you just learn the notes, and how to match them to the tunes.

it's a rare talent, creating music is like creating beautiful art one sees at the Louvre.

I've only known 2 music writers in my life. Eddie Vedder (we're neighbors), and a guy who wrote classical music in his youth, but stopped.

it takes practice, apparently. years of practice.

I tend to agree more with the first user though. Jumping into music theory/formal music training first can be a block to your natural instinct of playing style. Sometimes the "bad habits" people develop by being self taught can be part of your unique sound. Get into 'serious' studying about music after youve proven your musical endeavors are more than just a passing phase.

1. Start creating
2. Throw away old stuff because it sounds like Ewok porn
3. Repeat 1-2 until you shit out something that sounds like you could work on it for real
4. ???
5. Profit

>Masters in Theory and Composition of Music.

Well, there's not really an easy answer. Learning it involves learning an instrument first. Once you have some degree of mastery, you move on to learning theory. Once you've got some of that, you need aural training so you can properly identify intervals and get relative pitch.

After that, you can pretty much do anything, outside of performance on your instrument, if you fail to practice. If you'd really like to learn about music as a whole, I highly recommend piano or guitar. Lots of notes available in lots of octaves.

As for creating music, learning your scales will only take you so far. Unless that creative piece of your brain exists, allowing you to come up with music and novel uses of your instrument, you won't be able to. Run some backing tracks off youtube and hum some melodies in. If you don't find that hard, you've probably got it.

Practice.

Post a photo of Eddie's house with timestamp lol. He is idolized by many guitarists.

I respect that view. It would be good to know an example the OP wants to model theirself after.

Are you able to find work in your field or are you going for a doctorate and eventual teaching?

this, but with guitar and singing harmonies as well.

'music' can't really be taught. Even if you have zero training, you actually be more 'musical' than somebody who has been playing for years, simply based on the amount you've listened to and retained. Daily singing, tapping, dancing are clear indications that you should be making your own music. Just friggen do it boi

Every answer in this thread is wrong and gay. The right answer is to listen to a lot of music, then draw influence (aka copy) parts from here and there to create your own music.

Sometimes you know from where you copied a certain fragment of music and sometimes you don't. Doesn't matter as long as it sounds good.

Yeah, originality is overrated anyway.

Well yeah, it really is, but even all groundbreaking artists and bands copied from someone. Originality is kind of a myth and lot of "original" modern bands are considered that because of their aesthetic etc.

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