What To Learn To Produce Music?

dj4mula · #1 (**permalink**) Nov 28, 03

I've uploaded PROPELLERHEAD.PRODUCING.MUSIC.WITH.REASO N-RORiSO tutorial to Winston's FTP Site. This is the tutorial that my school uses. Personally I don't think its that great, but it might point a lot of people into the right direction.

Reason is a great way to start producing. Once you get that killer track done, you'll need to do some post production work on PRo Tools. Anyways, once you get used to Reason, you can jump to Logic. Logic fuckin rocks because of VSTS. Oddmud (ex nu-skool dj) and Psidream (dnb dj) produce tracks with Logic. There the fuckin super duo known as Influenza. They have a few tracks already pressed, and a upcoming track will be remixed by Krafty Kuts. WEbsite is here and u can sample some of there music. There local people, there gonna hit it big.

`t1m

ebbomega · #2 (**permalink**) Nov 28, 03

Best way to learn how to produce music:

Pick up a real instrument and learn how to play it. Then take some musical theory classes. It's really easy to use any synthesizer after that, as they're designed to be used _by_ musicians.

There's a lot more to electronic music than arranging patterns and tweaking knobs, kids.

ppcock · #3 (**permalink**) Nov 28, 03

can i tweak your knob with my tongue?

Sean · #4 (**permalink**) Nov 29, 03

Musical theory is very underrated.

dj4mula · #5 (**permalink**) Nov 29, 03

So my band class from grades 7 - 10 will come into use.

word.

t1m

QuanNeur · #6 (**permalink**) Nov 29, 03

many people can feel and and create rhythms quite naturally with little or no training. developing complex harmonies and melodies is a more mathematical and abstract process that comes naturally to few. if electronic musicians sat down and studied counterpoint then we might begin to see some truly innovative modern electronic dance music evolve out of the morass of beat-driven crap that exists today ... but by the very nature of it being "dance" music the focus is always on rhythm. rhythm, rhythm, rhythm. fuck it!! i am so freakin sick of rhythm. can we see past it please

*dies*

g l o w · #7 (**permalink**) Nov 29, 03

by the way.. there r alot of music programs out there which can easily make u become a professional composer cus the way it helps u, it can easily let u produce professional results..

e.x.a.m.p.l.e - photoshop.. alot dummies don't know anything about art at all... but after using the program.. ha..ha..ha^^^

decypher · #8 (**permalink**) Nov 29, 03

Yeh it takes a long time to learn how to produce well.. u need to learn how to get your frequency's just perfect on all channels so things dont conflict and sound muddy.. u gotta learn how to mix all together perfectly, etc etc... takes ALOT of skill and hard work to produce something that sounds really good on a huge system... And music theory is a good idea... i plan on taking some music theory courses along side some advanced classical guitar courses... I am good at making up harmonys and playing the guitar, and stuff like that... but if i were to know music theory really well, it would just make it faster and easier for me to create those harmonies..

Influenze is dope!... If u guys like that, also check out some other local talent "Pacific" ... who i think is Matty, anyways check out his work at http://dubplates.dogsonacid.com/ The top three tracks are pacific and fourthcoming on Rehab... enjoy...!! Also after u are done listening to Pacific, listen to all the new Black sun empire(not local) tracks which are being released on a Black sun empire LP coming in Febuary i think it is... that is gonna be a killer LP

Some other (Not local) talent to look out for are Noisia, Impulse & submerged, Kaos-KarlK-Jae-kennedy(3 guys), Corrupt Souls,

some of that talent can be heard on SKC's new mix for dnb Arena, which is fucking awesome and u can listen to it in 128kbps
Well worth a listen.
http://www.breakbeat.co.uk/features/skc.html

`ez

ebbomega · #9 (**permalink**) Nov 29, 03

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Originally posted by g l o w
by the way.. there r alot of music programs out there which can easily make u become a professional composer cus the way it helps u, it can easily let u produce professional results..

e.x.a.m.p.l.e - photoshop.. alot dummies don't know anything about art at all... but after using the program.. ha..ha..ha^^^

Suuuuuuuuure.

They call it "photoshopping" and not "drawing" for a reason, btw.

dj4mula · #10 (**permalink**) Nov 29, 03

^^^

G l o w is partially right. With todays technology creating an album from home isn't that difficult. Spend maybe around $3K and you can have a descent sounding album. You can even use a PC running WinXP.

Is the album good though? Well, that's another story all together.

`t1m

ebbomega · #11 (**permalink**) Nov 29, 03

^^ The "quality" thing was more what I was talking about.

Sure, tools can make it cheaper and easier to make pictures/music, but they can't give you talent.

I highly recommend Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as required reading for anybody who has any interest whatsoever in art.

Revolver · #12 (**permalink**) Nov 30, 03

FUCKIN READ READ READ READ READ READ READ READ.

before i bought ANY gear i had a huge stack of future music, electronic musican,keyboard,homerecording and computermusic magazines.

i just read everything i could on the shit....i became a serious gear head with owning any gear

when i got my first shitty celeron pc with cubasis and crap demo synths i felt pretty comfortable.

but wow dose theroy help with compositions, i am convinced that producers with a strong background in theroy and comp make better tunes the the rest.....there are exceptions though.

but im certainly not, my original tunes could be alot better stronger theroy and comp skills.