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by the way I am currently posting from prison...

you know that old saying bad music is a crime well i found out...

 

Music is a trap, don't waste your life...

you still have time to switch to painting..

get some of those paint by number kits and just pay attention...

 

I started it...I apologize
Time will tell, meanwhile sorry, carry on

 

thanks a lot
i will check out the training manuals on keys if that helps
and yes always go hard

 

later down the road

 

what does this belief even serve

 

congrats , this year you really made progress for your cause ...touche'
you even empowered the complainant
showing of the naivity,lack of third eye,lack of of social iq,lack of seeing linguistic style ,lack of seeing parrallels in defending bla bla

you got me once with grunge brent but never again mate
in the meantime i going to admire the outcome but not the techniqe eh eh...
man that 10db bundle rls times were great back then...

 

Yeah, after calling me a troll and a PITA several times in a row, I've kinda noticed that. I'm a quick learner

Whatever floats your boat man, hard pass again where applicable

 

you're future...

 

its the model for his initial post.
1. total newbie
2. ask wildly out of touch question
3. wants to build a skyscraper to talk to god
4. has never owned a hammer or even seen a nail.
ie how do you compose a symphony 100% from blank paper to 3 encores with the London Symphonic Orchestra in 3 years. etc.

also new account, no previous posts, it forms a pattern any 1970's tv detective could spot by the first commercial.

but at least he always comes at us with a new angle on the same old thing, so that is comforting as well as engaging .
he tries so hard and he seems to like engaging with us. He keeps the boredom down and he never gives up, a hero's heart in a dissidents body.

all in all I give him a 4.5 out of 5 for this post, the only problem was the instant outrage when the word "Foster" was mentioned, he knew it was an individual, rather than a plugin or software or music method. Also he sort of slipped out of character for a post or two he became a street gangster, and then slipped back into bewildered newbie.

May the New Year find us all with interesting and diverse posts that may not be what they seem at all.

 

does it get always this serious on the forum bru

 

Only on threads like this... seriously, there's, you know, 20-25 years worth of information here that addresses the very questions you're asking- feel free to avail yourself of it and you'll find no heaviness at all! But as mentioned above we tend to get things like this from time to time and they pretty much all trace back to one particular person- who is in this thread even if it's not you
This is kind of like going on to an aviation form and saying "please tell me everything I need to know about being a professional pilot".

 

You don't need dive into the deep music theory at the beginning. Feel free to start from practicing minor and major scales, then you can start to learn the basic harmony, chord progressions and intervals.

Don't forget the fact that there is no ending in learning music theory, so you don't need to go too way far; otherwise, it can make you feel bored after a while. You don't need to know music theory as much as Mozart and Beethoven knew, even if you want to compose orchestral type music.

Yea, midi keyboard is very important. Don't be another lazy guy who uses the pencil to draw notes on the piano roll. Getting basic keyboard playing skills can make everything much easier than drawing notes by pencil. Furthermore, midi keyboard will help you with getting improvisation skills.

Use the piano roll solely to quantize and fix notes.

Sure, you can dabble sound design not to get bored focusing on only music theory. But always try to focus on one object, if you want to learn something faster and more seriously. It is like you can't learn two foreign languages at the same time.

 

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No not always - think of it like a crowd of people you do not know. Some will be like-minded like you, some will be the polar opposite, some are pranksters, some are 100% focused on career and super serious, some are people able to see the serious and light side at the same time, some are one or the other, and this is because we're all different. Some people on here know a lot, some only pretend they do and a lot of people on here are totally genuine and will help you if they can. This is how it is in real life.

It's like the frog prince. Find the posts that answer your question and like life, avoid the ones that might prompt a negative reaction from you. Nobody here can say they've never responded to a comment that was ugly directed at them, self-included. It does pay to try and be aware of that and avoid wherever possible responding to them. It's like the bully theory, three times and they give up because they're being ignored. You can do that too here, click on their profile and there's an ignore button. You'll never see another post of theirs again so they may as well be talking to the wind.
Cheers

 

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Funny reading this thread.

I'm self-taught - started with a basic keyboard, listening to my favourite music and playing along with the keyboard so that I could work out the chords

Look at some basic chord charts (or chord book) so you understand what you are playing, then you will get familiar with minor & major scales

By doing this you will develop 'some' ability in using the keyboard before you attempt using any DAW, which will definitely assist you further on your journey

 

If you are serious about getting into music start by learning an instrument, just get an inexpensive keyboard to see if you really want to invest a lot of time into learning and progress from there, unless you are a prodigy it will take a lot of time, so have patience. You mentioned you have a year to learn but, I really think it will take quite a bit more of your time you have to be really passionate about it. If you're starting completely from scratch the cost of the interfaces, microphones and a really good computer will be expensive, my advice, baby steps slow and easy you can't rush it, Rome wasn't built in one day, with patience you may be able to achieve your goal. Don't go wild buying all kinds of gear spending so much money without knowing if you really can do something with it, many people I've come across spent thousands and ended up losing a ton of cash after realizing it was only a dream that was unattainable. Good luck in your endeavors, start small, inexpensive and even used equipment as you gradually progress. Don't listen to people that want and advise you to buy overly expensive gear and spend beyond your means and you end up in debt.

 

hope you aren't planning on making any money from it.... ever.