Everyone, hi!
You all probably hate this question and I totally get it. However, Everything I find online is confusing. I’m not sure where to start. I have no education in music. I would like to create electronic, drum and bass, and garage music.
What do I need to do first? Is it sound synthesis? What are the next steps? In gereral, what are the major steaps to creating a tune?
Any tutorials that you think are good, video or written, are welcome. I only use Linux. If you have suggestions for applications, I am listening.
Please, help! Thank you in advance.
Thank you for the insigtful response.
I did not know I needed to read something like this until I read it.
I get bored easily and knowing how to proceed if it happens will help me stay with it rather than just dropping it. Targeted and structured learning tires me down quickly. Hearing that you just explored makes me feel more confident the approach.
This has been a very motivational read for me. I cannot thank you enough.
Glad I could help. I’m pretty much the same way inre targeted/structured learning. Creative stuff should always be exploratory as far as I’m concerned. You pick an aspect that attracts you, start digging into it, and everything else should just fall into place as you get deeper and more obsessed with it.
Good luck to you! There’s a lot to learn and it goes in every direction. Perfect for people like us. :)
I love your energy! You have given me so much motivation. This is how I feel about learning in general. I learn so much better in a way that some like to call all over the place.
Thank you.
I’ll leave you with one piece of advice: cherish whatever energy you have now, at the beginning, before you’re bogged down with a bunch of technical knowledge. Some of the coolest ideas I’ve had came in the second half of 2020, within the first 6 months of me starting.
There’s a freedom that comes with the percieved ignorance you might have due to “just starting out.” You just run around, fearlessly diving headlong into all kinds of ideas without taking the time to consider whether they’re good or bad. You’re not locking yourself into restrictions based on mixing rules or music theory or whatever it is. These things will turn into a prison if you let them. Three years into this stuff as a hobby, I’m realizing this is where I’m plateauing/struggling - but I’m glad I’ve been able to identify it because now I know what to beat on and attack to try to get back to that childlike wonder when everything seemed so possible and open-ended.
A lot of musicians and producers I’ve spoken to will say shit like “music theory is a guideline, not a hard rule” or “mixing is subjective and the ‘rules’ you see in every blog post can and should be broken when it makes sense” - they’re not bullshitting you when they say it. “Rules” in a creative outlet like music production aren’t meant to be law. What ultimately matters is that it sounds good.
I always forget this. Few years back I enrolled to get a second degree in film. I was studying for myself, for fun. Was told to be creative. Be yourself. Then the rules started. I get that there are tried and true ways of doing something. It was taken to a whole new level. Not to mention how annoying some of the students were. I dropped out pretty early.
Thank you for all the advice. I need to frame parts of it.
That sounds like it was a drag, for real. If you ever have any “dumb” questions, feel free to DM lol.
It really was a drag. I almost hate watching movies and television now.
I’m falling over with joy. Thank you so much for the offer!