BEST WAY TO LEARN TO ARRANGE AND COMPOSE MUSIC?
January 9th, 2009
snowsinthedark asked:
Hi. I’ve regularly been insane about music; listening to a accumulation for hours daily, starting to concerts, ect. sadly i have no grave preparation in song or anything of a sort. we taught myself electric guitar with books as well as dvds as well as adore it. I’ve additionally review song speculation books for beginners as well as adore personification around with song program upon my computer. Still we feel which i know really small about song as well as have no thought how to emanate my own. How can we sense to emanate melodies as well as compare them with peace as well as rythm? Any ideas upon how to start?
Hi. I’ve regularly been insane about music; listening to a accumulation for hours daily, starting to concerts, ect. sadly i have no grave preparation in song or anything of a sort. we taught myself electric guitar with books as well as dvds as well as adore it. I’ve additionally review song speculation books for beginners as well as adore personification around with song program upon my computer. Still we feel which i know really small about song as well as have no thought how to emanate my own. How can we sense to emanate melodies as well as compare them with peace as well as rythm? Any ideas upon how to start?
The best way would be to take a class. Or find someone who can teach you. I have taken many music theory classes, and I am now in an Electronic Music class where i learn how to compose songs.
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Well, you need to be able the HEAR what you have written, so my BEST advice is to get some good software. Lucky you - the Finale company gives away a great little brother program, called NOTEPAD. Do the. Download notepad. Anything you compose, you will be able to play back, change the instruments, do alternate versions, etc.
With luck and skill, you will outgrow this, and want to upgrade. That is GOOD!! However, you still need some eduation, or what you enter is hit-and-miss - and much of lit likely to be trash. To learn to arrange, you need to know instrumentation - what each instrument can do, ranges, etc. You can fool around with already-composed works, just change the voices, etc., until you decide to branch out with different structure, etc.
There are people who say that composition cannot be taught. Well, *creativity* cannot be taught - but the necessary skills sure can. The more you learn about music theory, the more your ideas will flow. It sounds to me like you need a good common-practice harmony course, for starters, and a class in form and sturcture of music. Good luck with your endeavors!
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