How to start writing music?

Have you ever wanted to write your own tune? To show it to family or friends, or simply put it on the Internet for everyone to see. For some, this process takes quite a long time, for some it seems simply impossible. You can often hear the following phrases: “I’m not a musician,” “I can’t write a melody because I didn’t go to music school,” “I don’t know how to read music,” or “I’m not made to write melodies,” but these are all excuses. Some people just haven’t tried it, or if they have, it doesn’t work. And here we are faced with the question “How to write music correctly?” You will not find the most correct answer to this question anywhere. Because it simply doesn’t exist. Writing melodies is done differently for each person. Also, the melody depends on your mood. If your mood is good, upbeat, cheerful, then naturally the melody will turn out the same. If you are saddened by something, sad, then the melody will also turn out sad. Each musician writes melodies to suit his own mood. It is by its melody that you can find out what is going on in the soul of a musician. Let’s remember, for example, Kurt Cobain, who achieved his fame thanks to his grunge genre. When listening to his songs, you can feel first the slowness, smoothness, and then sharp adrenaline. This suggests that Kurt was energetic, but it is no longer a secret that, according to some sources, he was a drug addict. This shows a smoothness in the melody that allows the listener to enjoy the melody and its pull.

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Some musicians start meditating just to start writing their own melodies. To be honest, this method is quite effective, but it does not develop the musician much in the field of creation. It helps you understand yourself, creates a certain energy of your own in the melody. But meditation also has its disadvantages, for example, the fact that the feelings evoked in consciousness quickly dissolve and the musician quickly forgets these feelings and it becomes a problem for him to remember them in order to adjust the music to them. After all, music is probably the only language in the world that absolutely every person understands. Even if a person has hearing problems, he can still reproduce a melody in his subconscious to suit his feelings and mood; Beethoven is an example. Of course, a person who has never been associated with music cannot write a melody, all because he has not yet studied the instrument. To keep the rhythm when playing any instrument, there are very convenient devices called rhythm machines or drum machines ) reference to rhythm machines ). In order to start writing music, you must first study the musical instrument on which you want to write a melody. You must be completely aware of where every sound is on that instrument.

After you have studied, or already knew before. You just need to relax, don’t play right away. You must understand what you feel. Some may say that all this is more like meditation, but no, in this case it is not meditation. It’s just relaxing before the writing process. It is emotions that should write music. By your feelings and emotions, you must understand that you are just a device that reproduces your feelings into a melody. Somewhat reminiscent of a TV. After all, the TV picks up channels and reproduces them on the screen, it does not create these channels itself. You must understand this perfectly. Some musicians themselves say that when writing they simply don’t feel anything, they are carried away into their own world. It is in this state that melodies are written.

Now the question arises: “How to get to such a state?” There are many options. Some people take drugs, although I am against drugs and I do not advise you to take them. They can soon disrupt the musician’s consciousness and then the person will have difficulty reproducing his feelings into these amazing sound waves, which at times fascinate the listener. The most effective way to write melodies is in nature. At any time of the year and time of day. In this case, the main thing is to merge with nature and feel it, then the melody will be very beautiful and of high quality.

Some musicians simply cannot write in front of other people. This is quite normal, such a musician needs silence and calm to feel himself. It’s also good to create your own melody after some event. Events greatly influence a person’s mood and this is an excellent reason for writing. Of course, events can be bad, and sometimes after such bad events you don’t want to do anything at all. There is a desire to just bury yourself in a pillow and take a break from it all. But I’ll say it again, whatever the mood, the music will turn out that way. If you don’t want to create something, then you don’t need to. There is no need to “squeeze” this out of yourself, nothing will work anyway. You will know when you can write something. Let’s look at everything in order. To write a melody you need the appropriate mood, and of course desire. You need to know what exactly it should be, slow and sensitive or fast and energetic. This desire must coincide with the mood. After all, it’s unlikely that anyone will write a cheerful and energetic song in a bad mood. You need to merge with the outside world. Feel your entire essence with every cell of your body.

For the first time, no one will be able to write a great melody. This comes to a musician with time and experience. A musician often does not like what he has done and this is also quite normal. If you wrote something and you don’t like it, it means you are on the right track. Just develop in this direction. Play some instrument more, get to know it. Be interested and develop in the field of music and I give you a 100% guarantee that you will succeed. There are many more moments in music, but you will have to find out for yourself. Many things are simply impossible to describe. And remember, music is an amazing world in which to live. And a lot of people like this world.

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