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Aisle #02 - Intimidated Composers, Intimidated artists by blkmkt
Hello Weasyl!
An unexpected thing I gained on this site is the ability to talk to folks who compose music. I'm an amateur composer myself, having picked it up as a hobby a few years back, but I'm at an unfortunate stage with this hobby. I know enough to make somewhat decent music, but not enough to be able to communicate with anyone else about it. I'm very comfortable talking with other artists (to a point), since visual art is easier to describe than music, but speaking with other composers about composing is down right intimidating.
I mutually watch a couple of really awesome composers already! I'd like to find more, or at least talk to the ones I'm familiar with. I'd like to get better at making music, if only so I'm less self conscious about it.
In general I need to talk with my art friends more. I'm too easily intimidated at the moment, and I'd like to change that.
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I'd love to attempt to have broken conversations about music with you one day! I always have to resort to using timestamps and going "yeah I like that stuff that happens there." It's funny how you've gotta learn the language of music to be able to talk to other folks about it, but not necessarily to make it yourself. I was always certain that I was doing music wrong because of how mysterious the whole thing seems!
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Honestly, that works for me, 'cause that's the level I'm at, too! I'm slowly learning phrases (mostly due to comments, actually!) and bits of musician-speak, but it's a very long process, and a lot of times, it's just much, much easier for me to go "The harpsichord run at 2:17 is AWESOME!" instead of trying to figure out what all the exact terms are. If you're doin' it 'wrong', though, I don't wanna hear what 'right' sounds like. xD
At the end of the day though, it's an artform, and as such, I don't feel there's a 'wrong' way to do it.
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Everyone makes music their own way, it's not exactly a science, otherwise we wouldn't call it an artform.
There's only so much that music theory and the like can do, but if you really want to take a class on music, I'd suggest taking a multicultural music course.
Otherwise, you're free to wing it the best you can. A bunch of the stuff I make, I barely "know" what I'm doing before I get into the swing of things, each song is a learning experience for me. I only figured out FM instruments "for real" when I was reading through the help file for VGM Music Maker, it has a section titled "How to make FM instruments" that I found really useful. (I'll link VGM MM here for reference, since it seems to have disappeared from the internet http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9403129/Music/notmine/vgmmaker11.zip)-
You've always got such cool tools stashed away. It's encouraging for composers like you to even be following what I do, so it's been fun trying to get through learning to make music!
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I honestly have the same problem. A lot of it stems from the fact that I have very little formal training at all, and can't even read music. I don't know a lot of terms or what they mean. I just kind of blindly make sounds that sound kind of nice together, and pretty much always have... That means I can't really comment on other people's compositions in really music-savvy ways, or really get conversations goin' that way, other than to ask "Wait, what's an X or a Y?" which is... pretty embarrassing, really. >_>; You're not alone!