sunvox. that is all.
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babylon
i used to play a lot of dance dance revolution ( and i was pretty damn good before i started smoking) and i honestly believe this prepped me for music in a lot of ways. when i started mixing beatmatching came easy because of it. then when i turned to trying out production my mixing helped me already have an understanding of how music works. but with that said i would google some music theory sites and learn keyboard. i think most people can agree with that.
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.FILTHadelphia
xylo wrote:
Started playing guitar when I was 13 years old. Started several bands which I did music for more instruments than just guitar.
Tracking got me in to more theory though, I just knew guitar chords and stuff by heart so wasn't really focused on notes. When I started tracking I suddenly had to buildup chords by putting notes together. One follows the other and that's it.
Learning piano/keyboard is a good way to start, you'll dive right in to notes and combining stuff.
Edited for how I learned music. Other than the age I started the guitar and the hip/hop ragga part this is basically my story.
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Brunswick, GA USA
Piano lessons from age 7 or so, brass instruments starting with and focusing on trumpet through high school, a little vocal training in college, self-taught everything else.
(I think I answered that in the late 8bc.)
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i woke up one day and decided i wanted to be a musician so i googled how to be a musician and watched a few youtube tutorials on how to be a musician and now i'm a musician, i would say my experiences have been LOL and cool
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Chicago IL
having a general interest in writing music before you find out about chip usually helps
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Maine
>HOW DID YOU LEARN MUSIC?
i ask myself this question every day
honestly i have no clue i think it just slowly came to me after playing guitar and piano for so long
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Abandoned on Fire
I was in school band from 6th grade onward but none of that training/knowledge came into play until I'd spent a long time wrapping my head around samplers, midi, and later on trackers.
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Finland
Played guitar a bit as teenager, listened all kinds of music religiously for tens of years. No formal training but I think I understand basics okay just by the experience of knowing more than 5 bands.
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Nashville, Tennessee
i thought i had 'learned music' before, but it wasn't until i had lost myself completely in it that it truly began to make sense to me.
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shanghai
learnt to play spinning plates with a youtube vid, then some sigur ros melodies, then realised i could just plonk down at my keyboard and make shit up
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Gosford, Australia
started with saxophone and piano lessons, meanwhile imitating aphex twin & generic NRG in fruityloops
eventually i figured out how to write and produce shitty electropop music and then nature took its course!
(also a couple of years semi-formally learning audio production at a tech college along the way)
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I have been taught music in an acedmic sense for so long that I think that where I am right now, it will make or break me as a composer. Too many years of being told how to play things, write things, and hear things. I feel bad for trying to push it on other people. I think that I am just now *really* finding my sound now that I am thinking beyond instruments, staff paper, and convention on a regular basis.