Slaphead
New member
Just thought I'd introduce myself here in the getting started section as that's exactly where I am.
I kind of fell into this about 3 months ago, to be honest I never thought I'd end messing around with electronic music, but once the bug bit it became incredibly addictive.
To that end I crammed music theory - scales, keys, modes, chord formation, harmonisation, melody etc - I've been doing a lot of reading and knowing the basics of theory has helped enormously.
I'm tending, or I should say would like, to go in a progressive direction - mostly trance, but I seem to always miss and end up creating something completely different, but I guess that's just the beginnings of my style coming out. I also get a bit carried away and end up creating 8 - 10 min monstrosities. Funnily enough what I thought was going to be the hard part (melodies and harmonization) wasn't and what I thought was going to be the easy part (drum and percussion) turned into the hardest part to get right.
Most of what I've done so far has been on the iPad. Don't laugh, there are a lot of powerful music creation apps available on iOS and we're not talking Garageband either. Even so I've invested in Logic pro X, a couple of nearfield studio monitors and an audio interface, but I am finding Logic to be pretty slow going. From what I've heard it may be that Ableton is more suited to the way I think, but I'll persevere with Logic a bit longer.
One thing I will say is that I have no intention of doing this professionally. My goal is to try to make music that I like to listen to. If somebody else happens to like it then it's a bonus.
Well that's me - I so see a mountain in front of me getting to grips with all of this synth patching, compressors, limiters, distortion etc, and am therefore very happy I've found a place like this.
Cheers
I kind of fell into this about 3 months ago, to be honest I never thought I'd end messing around with electronic music, but once the bug bit it became incredibly addictive.
To that end I crammed music theory - scales, keys, modes, chord formation, harmonisation, melody etc - I've been doing a lot of reading and knowing the basics of theory has helped enormously.
I'm tending, or I should say would like, to go in a progressive direction - mostly trance, but I seem to always miss and end up creating something completely different, but I guess that's just the beginnings of my style coming out. I also get a bit carried away and end up creating 8 - 10 min monstrosities. Funnily enough what I thought was going to be the hard part (melodies and harmonization) wasn't and what I thought was going to be the easy part (drum and percussion) turned into the hardest part to get right.
Most of what I've done so far has been on the iPad. Don't laugh, there are a lot of powerful music creation apps available on iOS and we're not talking Garageband either. Even so I've invested in Logic pro X, a couple of nearfield studio monitors and an audio interface, but I am finding Logic to be pretty slow going. From what I've heard it may be that Ableton is more suited to the way I think, but I'll persevere with Logic a bit longer.
One thing I will say is that I have no intention of doing this professionally. My goal is to try to make music that I like to listen to. If somebody else happens to like it then it's a bonus.
Well that's me - I so see a mountain in front of me getting to grips with all of this synth patching, compressors, limiters, distortion etc, and am therefore very happy I've found a place like this.
Cheers