what knowledge do you need to make your own music? i know its a ridiculously noob question, but im curious about what you need to know before you try to make music, i mean music theory, advanced level on a certain instrument, etc.
What knowledge do you need to make your own music? i know its a ridiculously noob question...
Bentley Morales
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Adrian Price
Just teach yourself lol
Asher Cruz
1. have ears
2. or don't, Mozart didn't for a decent chunk of his career
3. make music
Anthony Gonzalez
An instrument, three chords and some lyrics. I’m not being facetious, I wrote my first guitar song three weeks into learning the instrument and I still think it’s a pretty good song (link below).
Nolan Kelly
If you know how to speak any language, you have the basic knowledge required to make rudimentary popular musics.
Parker Lewis
i have 2 hears, is it enough?
Aiden Diaz
yeah, go write some shit now
Nathaniel Gray
i only know english
Ryan Cooper
find something that makes noise.
then use those noises to make music
Hunter Murphy
yeah but how do i know which noises sound better when put next to other noises?
Aaron Anderson
This is why you should learn an instrument. You’ll quickly discover which chord progressions work.
Ethan Reed
evil twin
Aiden Edwards
you should probably learn all the notes.
then understanding basic chord structure gives you a good foundation to work off of
the key is to visualize what you want to hear, then figure out how to replicate that vision by learning the techniques that are necessary for its creation.
through experience. once you begin to understand the nature of sounds, you'll understand how they'll complement one another.
it's really about putting together what you like/want to hear.
Parker Smith
1. Learn to play guitar which deadass takes one day even if you're retarded
2. Do whatever you want with this skill
But honestly if you need to ask this question I don't think you have what it takes to make music.
Leo Young
1) forget about chords. Chords come last. Thinking of chords first is a recipe for boring music.
2) think about melodies. In popular music that means vocal melodies and riffs. Those are the most important.
3) just assemble the chords to fit the melody. It's usually pretty easy. If the note in the melody is A you put an A chord or some variation of it. Or some basic harmonic interval like the fifth or third.
I really think making good music just means making good melodies
Evan Myers
this is actually really helpful
Carter Adams
Learn some basic theory but don't fall down the rabbit hole of thinking you need to know everything. You're learn as you go. In fact, knowing a lot of theory can be an impediment to your songwriting.
Learn the major and minor scale, the basic intervals that make chords (major and minor third, perfect fifth, diminished, augmented) and learn the roman numeral system aka the chords of the major and minor scale. And learn some 7 chords because they're in a lot of great songs. That should be enough for now. You can literally learn that in 10 minutes.
Adam Morales
pro tip: kill yourself
Cooper Kelly
if this is going to be a noob question general can anyone tell me how to do this with my voice? trying to get that rippling effect
Nolan Carter
read the prod sticky, michael new on jewtube has a playlist with all the basic theory shit you need to make your music. you also need two years experience on the instrument you plan on playing
Ayden Adams
Dominic Thomas
Recognize that at least 99% of the music you've listened to is based on the major scale. Profit.
But in all seriousness, it really is that simple. It's how deep you want to go with it that matters. Unfortunately, no music school in the world is going to take you deep into the major scale. They care more about nomenclature, memorized scale patterns, "chord-scale theory", and a bunch of other bullshit.
Most jazz musicians can't even truly improvise or have good ears. They rely on memorized scale patterns and other tricks to get them through songs. Case in point: I once listened to a "jazz" song on the radio a while back, and the guitarist's idea of soloing was playing a scale up and down. It was so sad.
Xavier Barnes
What knowledge do you need to make drone and ambient musick? Any synthesizer in particular I should get to start making the kind of noise I'm talking about?
Logan Wright
this is a rather myopic view of music
Liam Watson
Learn how to perform metalcore vocals, then you pretty much just tone it down to 50/50. 50 clean voice, 50 gravel.
Here's an example of me doing it
soundcloud.com
The sound comes from pushing down low into your stomach. I know it sounds like your throat is doing something but it's really not. It just kinda happens on it's own.
Isaac Williams
Just stop. Please don't even begin, the world doesn't need more people polluting it with broken dreams thinking you have some talent and need to be heard. You don't. Stop.
Cameron Wood
oops sry i didn't hear you
Justin Morales
You’re giving Clairo way too much credit.