I've been teaching myself music for a year. From absolute scratch. Most of that has been composing solo piano music. Since I can not play any instrument I compose in Finale and put the midi into FL Studio, with my chosen instrument/s, and make a track. I have not played with FL Studio much from an electronic perspective. I plan to.
To some degree I have got a bit fed up with the classical music scene. I've entered competitions and not got any thanks for entering. I have found piano players, frankly, to be a precious lot who are not worth composing for. By now I have got OK at composing complex music with suspended chords, trills and other things. Pity pianists are too snobbish to get any happiness from any of it.
So I am not classical. Yet I am also not electronic. I don't relate to dubstep or Skrillex. I don't want to emulate or imitate them or anyone else - I just want to make my music. So I don't know what to call what I do; I compose classically and play it through electronic VST instruments. My favourite instruments:
classical - the grand piano in Kontakt.
FL Studio electronic - the Ogun.
Also worth adding that I am a lot older than most people on this forum. That adds another layer of complexity; I was brought up watching bands that most people on these forums would roll their eyes at. [any fans of Jethro Tull's 70's prog rock? Anyone? Sniff. You leave me feeling like a dead duck, spitting out my broken luck.
[that one is for any Tull fans!]
Am I the forum's only nowhere, wandering, inbetween guy ? I'm not dubstep. I'm not classical. I'm something. Yet nothing. I'm the musical equivalent of an aero chocolate bar.
To some degree I have got a bit fed up with the classical music scene. I've entered competitions and not got any thanks for entering. I have found piano players, frankly, to be a precious lot who are not worth composing for. By now I have got OK at composing complex music with suspended chords, trills and other things. Pity pianists are too snobbish to get any happiness from any of it.
So I am not classical. Yet I am also not electronic. I don't relate to dubstep or Skrillex. I don't want to emulate or imitate them or anyone else - I just want to make my music. So I don't know what to call what I do; I compose classically and play it through electronic VST instruments. My favourite instruments:
classical - the grand piano in Kontakt.
FL Studio electronic - the Ogun.
Also worth adding that I am a lot older than most people on this forum. That adds another layer of complexity; I was brought up watching bands that most people on these forums would roll their eyes at. [any fans of Jethro Tull's 70's prog rock? Anyone? Sniff. You leave me feeling like a dead duck, spitting out my broken luck.
[that one is for any Tull fans!]
Am I the forum's only nowhere, wandering, inbetween guy ? I'm not dubstep. I'm not classical. I'm something. Yet nothing. I'm the musical equivalent of an aero chocolate bar.