Nov 21 2014
Making Music
Today I shared a song I wrote for you. Writing a song is no different than writing a story. Fluency comes with practice. When you write a good story, it has character development, a climax or two, and it connects with the reader in some way. Each instrument part I write into a song is like a character that interacts with the other characters to tell a story.
If you want to hear the song I played for you today, click HERE.
If you want to hear all of the songs I’ve written, click HERE.
Anyone can write their own song. You have a program called Garage Band on your laptops that you can write your own music with. Start with something simple and see how it sounds. If you make a mistake, it’s really easy to fix on a computer.
Here is what my computer looks like. It’s a lot fancier than Garage Band, but it really does the same thing:
If you’re interested in details, here is the equipment I use to make music:
- Cubase Artist 7.5
- Native Instruments Komplete Ultimate 10
- Roland A-90 keyboard (any MIDI keyboard will do)
- Roland Quad-Capture Audio Interface (it records at a higher quality than a computer sound card)
