Creating music!
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.
Although today composition is considered to consist of the manipulation of each aspect of music (harmony, melody, form, rhythm, and timbre), according to Jean Benjamin de Laborde (1780):
Composition consists in two things only. The first is the ordering and disposing of several sounds...in such a manner that their succession pleases the ear. This is what the Ancients called melody. The second is the rendering audible of two or more simultaneous sounds in such a manner that their combination is pleasant. this is what we call harmony, and it alone merits the name of composition.
Although today composition is considered to consist of the manipulation of each aspect of music (harmony, melody, form, rhythm, and timbre), according to Jean Benjamin de Laborde (1780):
Composition consists in two things only. The first is the ordering and disposing of several sounds...in such a manner that their succession pleases the ear. This is what the Ancients called melody. The second is the rendering audible of two or more simultaneous sounds in such a manner that their combination is pleasant. this is what we call harmony, and it alone merits the name of composition.
WHAT IT TAKES TO CREATE MUSIC
There are some easy steps to follow to create music. Those are:
Play an instrument
· You'll need something to apply your ideas through.
· Learning the basics of guitar should be simple since it is the most resourceful instrument.
· If you do not enjoy playing guitar, piano should be almost equally challenging.
Explore
· Listen to A LOT of music. You need to ask yourself what you really like and what you don't.
· Practice criticizing music, and learn how to appreciate every genre (all the way from Classical to Death Metal).
Train your ears
· Listen to everything around you.
· Concentrate on the sound that everything makes. It doesn't have to come from an instrument so it could be music, there's music in our daily lives but we hardly notice it.
· Get your inspiration from very bizarre things if only you concentrate and train yourself to listen to everything around you.
Educate yourself
· Read about the past legends.
· Know what Hendrix did, who Jelly Roll is, why you hear the name Chuck Berry so much. These are all people you should look up to and learn from.
Push your limits
· Pick your favourite music genre, and explore it to the maximum.
· Learn all its sub-genres and where it came from, who influenced it, its top contributors and really, really listen to the tunes.
· Most modern genres came from somewhere. Heavy Metal came from Psychedelic, Psychedelic came from Rock, Rock came from Blues.
· Try to see where you are and where you'd like to go with your music. Jam with other musicians
· No type of music is enclosed to a single instrument.
· Try to gather up with other musicians and mix in different sounds.
· See if you can make up a new percussion pattern or a something that sounds strange when you play it.
Have a strong background
· Read into some Music Theory every once in a while. You'll discover a lot of new arenas in music that have never been explored. Keys that almost never appear in modern music, modes that haven't found the right accompaniment, so many scales that have never been used.
Merge
· A lot of music types came from a little bit of a lot of genres. See what types of sound you love hearing and find a way to harmonize them, you might get good results.
There are some easy steps to follow to create music. Those are:
Play an instrument
· You'll need something to apply your ideas through.
· Learning the basics of guitar should be simple since it is the most resourceful instrument.
· If you do not enjoy playing guitar, piano should be almost equally challenging.
Explore
· Listen to A LOT of music. You need to ask yourself what you really like and what you don't.
· Practice criticizing music, and learn how to appreciate every genre (all the way from Classical to Death Metal).
Train your ears
· Listen to everything around you.
· Concentrate on the sound that everything makes. It doesn't have to come from an instrument so it could be music, there's music in our daily lives but we hardly notice it.
· Get your inspiration from very bizarre things if only you concentrate and train yourself to listen to everything around you.
Educate yourself
· Read about the past legends.
· Know what Hendrix did, who Jelly Roll is, why you hear the name Chuck Berry so much. These are all people you should look up to and learn from.
Push your limits
· Pick your favourite music genre, and explore it to the maximum.
· Learn all its sub-genres and where it came from, who influenced it, its top contributors and really, really listen to the tunes.
· Most modern genres came from somewhere. Heavy Metal came from Psychedelic, Psychedelic came from Rock, Rock came from Blues.
· Try to see where you are and where you'd like to go with your music. Jam with other musicians
· No type of music is enclosed to a single instrument.
· Try to gather up with other musicians and mix in different sounds.
· See if you can make up a new percussion pattern or a something that sounds strange when you play it.
Have a strong background
· Read into some Music Theory every once in a while. You'll discover a lot of new arenas in music that have never been explored. Keys that almost never appear in modern music, modes that haven't found the right accompaniment, so many scales that have never been used.
Merge
· A lot of music types came from a little bit of a lot of genres. See what types of sound you love hearing and find a way to harmonize them, you might get good results.