
Please add your favorite resources for music composition on DAW?
Get into details of composition? e.g. How to create a bass line, how to create a chord sequence, beginner's guide to Logic, Garageband, etc.
Use #hashtags to highlight your key findings!
Comment on at least two other students' posts and tell me who did you comment on?
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The thing is that Logic Pro X is only available for macOS, and not everyone is filthy rich to be able to afford a Mac. For all of you Windows people, we have come up with this tricks to help you install Logic Pro X on Windows PC
The Guitar Hero experience is about having fun while playing music and creating a friendly and engaging atmosphere where players can bond with friends and family while jamming to legendary tracks.
https://www.cmuse.org/music-composition-and-production/
https://www.baumannmusic.com/individual-music-composition-and-production/
https://thetunecatcher.com/7-elements-of-music/#:~:text=There%20are%207%20elements%20of%20music%20basically%2C%20for,5.%20Melody%206.%20Timbre%207.%20Texture%208.%20Harmony
https://madcomposerlab.com/compositionrealness/2019/5/20/4-elements-of-music-composition
https://promusicianhub.com/types-musical-compositions/
In the first link, it talks about the introduction of music composition and production. Let us know what is music composition.
In the second link, it answers a lot of question to the people who was not familiar with music like us. It gives us detailed explaination and it’s very useful.
In the third link it talks about 7 elements of music and these elements are need to consider at first when we composing a music. Also, in the fourth link It talks about the most important four elements when we composing a music.
The last link talks about the types of music composition, we probably will choose one in the future and compose that type of music.
https://www.secretsofsongwriting.com/2016/01/19/song-sections-and-the-chord-progressions-that-make-them-work/
The site does an excellent job of demonstrating how to alter chords and connect chords.
#chord #progressions
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-bass-line#how-to-write-a-bass-line-in-5-steps
This website teaches us how to write and recognize bass lines. They are very useful.
#bass #line
There are free teaching guides and tutorials on Garage Band.
#garageband
It gives a lot of specific suggestions on drum programming.
#drum #programming
It gives 5 tips on composing music, which I think are very helpful for beginners to improve their composing skills.
#compose #music #beginners
How to add chords to a melody
https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Add-Chords-to-a-Melody-on-the-Piano/#:~:text=First%2C%20always%20try%20your%201%20chord...that%27s%20a%20great,measure.%20Now%20here%27s%20an%20important%20thing%20to%20remember%21
How to get inspirations to compose
https://www.musicianonamission.com/music-inspiration/
How to add vocal chops
https://www.edmprod.com/vocal-chops/
How to use garage band
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-guide-to-garageband/
How to write a bass line
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-bass-line
http://www.musiccompositiontutorial.com/#:~:text=To%20be%20able%20to%20compose%20music%20we%20need,composing%20rational%20side%203%20Use%20a%20composing%20method
This link told us how to compose musics in very affective ways, and have videos for tutoring. #getting_started_to_compose #composingmusics
www.wikihow.com/Make-Music-Using-a-Computer
Cute comics including. Teaching us how to make musics using DAW on the computers. #DAW #composingmusics
https://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/beginners-guide-to-writing-better-bass-lines--cms-19879#:~:text=Beginner%27s%20Guide%20to%20Writing%20Better%20Bass%20Lines%201,enjoy%20playing%20around%20with%20your%20bass%20line.%20
Using attractive achievement to intro the lesson. Which have big impact on stimulating on learning about writing baseline. #baseline #beginners
https://howtowritefilmmusic.com/writing-unique-chord-progressions-without-music-theory/#:~:text=The%20easiest%20way%20to%20write%20a%20chord%20progression,the%20need%20to%20know%20anything%20about%20music%20theory.
Writing chord part of the songs can be done without specific music theory in a fun way. Images including to help the understanding. #chord_progression #withoutmusictheory
https://musicianshq.com/how-to-write-and-record-drum-parts-for-non-drummers-programmed-or-live/#:~:text=How%20to%20write%20a%20drum%20part%20for%20beginners,parts%20that%20may%20start%20to%20sound%20quite%20repetitive.
Beginners can write cool drum parts! Details helps understanding, and knowledge also included. #drumpart #beginners
This website explain clearly how to choose a DAW, and there are some links and highlight inside the article to help beginners. You can click them if there are unfamiliar terms.
This article is from the same website called flypaper. This article is about beat making, and the importance of record you inspiration.
#DAW #BeatMaking #inspiration #BreakupSongs #Rhythm #Harmony
How to download Logic Pro X on Windows
For us windows users, knowing something like this is very important!
#Logic #Windows
How to write a song using Logic Pro X
Logic X is a complete new DAW for me and I think I should know something about it.
#Logic #Basics
Sound effects for Logic Pro X
This thing is very useful because it is a website full of sound effect download links.
https://www.listalternatives.com/sounds-for-logic-pro#:~:text=Select%20Logic%20Pro%20X%20%3E%20Sound%20Library%20%3E,package%20you%20wish%20to%20download%2C%20then%2C%20click%20Install.
#Logic #SoundEffects
How to harmonize
This article is for those who don't even know what harmonies are(which I happen to be). There's a step-by-step guide to us beginners in here.
#Harmonies #Basics
How to Write a Melody
When you find it hard to start a song, look at this guide. The method of chord progression is really outstanding.
https://www.musicianonamission.com/how-to-write-a-melody/
#Melody #HowToStart
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV19u41127wc?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click
This is a very detailed video which told us how to use GarageBand, it is taught in Chinese.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av67749866
This video clearly teaches us how to arrange music and compose music, which is very useful for those of us who are about to start learning to arrange music
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1y34y1m7kd?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click
This teaches us how to incorporate chords in the arrangement
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1jW411J765?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click
This is a set of videos that will teach you music theory, which is very important for composing music, so this video will give you a foundation for composing music
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1A34y127SJ?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click
This is also a video that can help you compose music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDIsEZsalAo
#FLStudioTutorial
I like this vedio because it clearly introduces the menu and layout of FL studio, this youtuber also set an example so that tyro can easily get familiar with fl studio and use them.
This vedio can introduces 4 ways which can benefit us to getting inspiration. As a result, it may help people making music.
#Melody This vedio introduces very basic way to write melody. It also help us understanding and reviewing basic music theory using Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant(I,IV,V).
#Accompaniment
This vedio introduces many ways which can be used to create accompaniment.
#Drum
It is suitable for non drummers to write drum, it is also usable for using DAW creating music.
https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-learning/fl-studio-online-manual/html/basics_workflow.htm
This is a complete and detailed manual instruction for how to write songs with FL studio,It is suitable for the beginners to learn how to use the function contained in this application,And this website contained overall aspects of using digital instruments inside Fl studio as well as using settings inside and record the music #fundation #FLstudio
This website seems very professional and it concludes several tables that teaches you what are these majors and majors match the chords that you can play some basic chords such as C major contained C G F and other choices so that you can use them #chords
This website is useful for beginners who plays guitar try to write a song,and it teaches you how to use guitar to play chord progressions.it teaches you how to build the progression step by step.First,they suggest you to start with C major which is simple for beginners.And they teach you to build the chord and gives you the instruction photos which you can play with your guitar.And you can listen to the audios that you can listen to the sound effect of different chord progressions. #guitar #chords
This is basically teaches you how to use FL studio to write a particular kind of music.And it is step by step as well as gives you the picture to show you how to operate completely.#hiphop #FLstudio
It is very clear and understandable resource for building chords together and it is simple to use chords to play a melody with this instrument inside #melody #chords
https://www.ultimatesongwriting.com/
https://blog.landr.com/write-song/
https://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/the-beginners-guide-to-daws-182337
https://www.musicrepo.com/your-first-daw-recording/
The reasons about why I like these resources:
The first two of these materials explain how to write a song in great detail, starting with inspiration, including how to find inspiration, what tools to use, and some instructions on how to use them. Other resources detail how to use DAW,and his step-by-step instructions include some related products and functions, including suggestions, and links to download Audacity.
There are several website about how to create the bass lines in composition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk7paOrIn3Y
This video introduces principles of writing a bass lines by providing some ineffective examples. Specifically, this base player indicates flaws in bass lines with mismatched rhythms and notes. Moreover, he discusses how to improve your bass lines by adding layers of ornamentation and complexities .
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQaf1Wz7N7k
This video teaches us about how to identify and utilize the root of the chord to synthesize a complete bass line. By pointing out a common misconception that the lowest roots aren't always the root. What's more he mentions variations of the bass line such as: inversions.
There are several videos for making chords:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeuIWQWvFlw
This video is very suitable for beginners, because sequences of chords and different examples of combinations are shown and explained very clearly and vividly by improvising a short section. Moreover, the blogger also demonstrate how to bridge different chords, known as chord inversions.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KDYhnMf1Nk
Sometimes, I will feel awkward with my left hand in playing chords. As a result, this video is super-duper useful. He reveals some typical and beautiful ways that left-hand sounding works. There are at least two versions of left-sounding for each key signiture.
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuuq8DtUy_g
What is an inversion, and how can we create it? Creating an inversion by transposing notes in a chord to different octaves make the sound different. This video teaches the basic concept related to inversions and demonstrated how to build up efficient inversions
I found on youtube a video maker made a video that is very suitable for us like beginners, in this video the author introduces us to the best daw software, through its meticulous analysis, as a beginner we can reduce the time in picking software, so I chose this video to help you can reduce the time of picking software.
Within this video link, the authors introduce us to the basic knowledge of daw101 step by step, and by watching this video we can learn the most basic knowledge
This website can generate structure project files of some genres(with no notes in it). A great way to learn about the arrangement of some different music styles.
https://xueshu.baidu.com/usercenter/paper/show?paperid=570833f5b880d17e427e7fe177013e42
https://xueshu.baidu.com/usercenter/paper/show?paperid=472fab373723b8d9edf8df84781223a0
https://xueshu.baidu.com/usercenter/paper/show?paperid=cdeb9e3931ba9e3b3bb24d7bb3b33ca9
https://www.musicradar.com/how-to/program-synth-chords-lead-garageband
This website tells us how to use Garageband to program Chords and Melody through very detailed introduction. We can get an intuitive idea of GarageBand
#Chords #Melody #Garageband
https://www.lascratcheuse.com/blog/how-to-make-a-beat-in-garageband-for-beginners/
This site explains how to make beats using Garageband. With detailed screenshots of each step, this is a very effective site for beginners.
#Beats #Garageband #Beginners
https://produceradvice.com/how-to-make-edm-with-garageband-an-ultimate-guide/
This site details a genre of music that can be made with Garageband - EDM, Electronic Dance Music. I personally like electronic music very much, so I will like this site
#EDM #Garageband
https://learningmusic.ableton.com/index.html
One of my personal favorites is Ableton. This site has all the tutorials and Ableton allows us to edit in its existing projects, which is a great help for future projects of our own.
#Ableton #DAW
https://producersociety.com/loops-garageband/
This site shows beginners how to make their own Loops with Garageband. This will give beginners some experience
#Loops #Garageband #Beginners
http://www.musiccompositiontutorial.com/#:~:text=To%20be%20able%20to%20compose%20music%20we%20need,composing%20rational%20side%3B%20Use%20a%20composing%20method%2
This web site is about some basic information on composing rationally. There are also hundreds of video class to teach how to compose.
https://www.skillshare.com/blog/how-to-compose-music-a-step-by-step-guide/
This website is teaching the reader how to compose step by step. It also involves videos.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-guide-to-garageband/#:~:text=How%20to%20Use%20GarageBand%3A%20A%20Step-By-Step%20Guide%201,most%20powerful%20apps%20that%20comes%20with%20macOS.%20
This passage is mainly about how to use GarageBand. It answers the questions like where to find loops and how to record both software and real instruments.
https://madcomposerlab.com/compositionrealness/2019/5/20/4-elements-of-music-composition
This website is about the elements of the music composition. It has some help at preparation of the composition.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-melody#3-types-of-melodies
This website gives some tips on the melody writing.It can make the melody writing easier.
This is a short video that teaches the basic of how to make a simply melody line.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-melody#what-are-the-components-of-a-melody
https://www.secretsofsongwriting.com/2012/05/07/10-tips-for-writing-great-song-melodies/
This is a very good document to teach us how to make baseline, I learned a lot of key elements about is.
http://reloadsanear.com/education/teach/bass_comp.pdf
It’s a excellent website for the beginners to be familiar with the functions of the garage band.
https://thegaragebandguide.com/beginners
There are five top garage band tips for us.
https://thegaragebandguide.com/top-five-garageband-tips
This is a complete guide about how to create chord progressions.
https://professionalcomposers.com/how-to-create-chord-progressions/
This video is talks about some basic instructions about how to use garage band, I think it’s very helpful for me.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1NW411F7Zq?from=search&seid=703250688566466220&spm_id_from=333.337.0.0
videos for new composer
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1pf4y1k7dB?p=10
This is a video that introduces the application of major and minor keys in music.
#major #minor
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1pf4y1k7dB?p=11
This video teaches us to identify and use the structure of music.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1d4411G7jY?p=10
This video teaches us the basic chords. I recommend it because it state the rules clearly.
#chord
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1NW411F7Zq?p=13
This video introduces how to create arpeggio with GarageBand.
#GarageBand
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1NW411F7Zq?p=4
This video introduces how to use audio library in the GarageBand.
#Garageband
https://www.cmuse.org/how-to-compose-music/
This website gives some basic information about composing music. It is relatively easy to understand.
https://bettersongs.com/how-to-compose-music/#:~:text=How%20to%20Compose%20a%20Song%20in%2010%20Steps,Real%20Musicians%20and%20Real%20Instruments%2010%20Keep%20Going
Comparing to the first one, this has more details. It introduces tools to compose music, ways to gain inspiration, step when composing the music and some tips and suggestions which is really useful.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1NW411F7Zq?from=search&seid=10277426438941916533&spm_id_from=333.337.0.0
This is a video created by Chinese on bilibili. The video shows how to use all the functions in garage band.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1kx411x7Kg?from=search&seid=10926369127994330071&spm_id_from=333.337.0.0
The video above is an example of using garage band to play music. This music is “shape of you”. It is more practical.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-guide-to-garageband/#:~:text=How%20to%20Use%20GarageBand%3A%20A%20Step-By-Step%20Guide%201,Your%20Songs.%20...%2010%20Create%20Your%20Masterpiece.%20
The last one is also about using garage band to compose music. I think it can help you to have a better understand
https://americansongwriter.com/how-to-write-piano-accompaniment-for-a-song/ this is a website that can give you some advices on how to write a accompaniment with piano.
https://www.mydegreeguide.com/college-major-vs-minor/ this is a website that you can read before writing your music. It can teach you some rules of major and minor. They are useful.
https://guitarmessenger.com/polyphonic-writing-for-keyboard-part-1/ this is a website that can help you with the polyphonic writing, polyphony can make your song more colorful.
https://plus.pointblankmusicschool.com/how-to-write-a-bassline/ a good piece of music need a baseline, this passage can help you how to write a bassline.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-melody a good melody can leave a deep impression to the audience. Here is some tips while you may use when writing melody.
Hi! This is Austin. And here are some really high-quality resources including some masterclasses and tutorials. These tutorials mainly focus on Progressive House and some Techno. And they will definitely help you a lot in making music.
In this tutorial, we go over how to create arps from bass/chord progressions to fit your next progressive track. To do this, we go over some stereotypes that hold you back like having an arp that just goes up or down. An Arp can do so much more than this, it can intertwine and contain different rhythms other than the 1/16th, 1/8th... etc. In this video, we create 3 various arp examples that will help in inspiring you and getting you out of your comfort zone. #Arpeggio #ProgressiveHouse
Learn simple sound design in Serum and understand how to make 3 basses of progressive house being pluck bass, growling bass and reese bass. #Serum #Bass #ProgressiveHouse
In this episode, we will finally bring our knowledge of DIVA to practicality with the creation of some sounds from the Progressive realm. DIVA is a synth that is good at one thing, and it does it so well: analog sounds. Lane 8 is a producer that has been open about his usage of DIVA in his tracks, and as we dive into this episode to recreate some iconic sounds of his, you will see why. Yotto and Anderholm are also heavy users of analog-based sounds, and while we may not know if they use DIVA, we can still make some of their sounds as well. Hope this video inspired you to get synthesizing some sounds for your next production. #DIVA #ProgressiveHouse #Yotto #Lane8 #Synthesizer
This is a video where the German deep and progressive house master Ben Böhmer teaches you how to write a track from scratch. #DeepHouse #ProgressiveHouse #House #BenBohmer #Ableton #Anjunadeep #ProductionMusicLive #PML
This is a video where Dutch masters of house and techno, Tinlicker in their Utrecht studio as they unravel the production secrets behind their track Bird Feeder including details on how they create their beats and bass lines, process vocals, and layer synths in Cubase. #Techno #ProgressiveHouse #DeepHouse #Tinlicker #Cubase #Anjunabeats #ThisIsNotOurUniverse
This is a great full 4-hour video tutorial that shows you how to produce a melodic house music in the style of Lane 8, the American electronic music master. It is extremely detailed in step and easy to understand and follow. #House #MelodicHouse #Lane8 #ThisNeverHappened #Anjunadeep
Remaking the style of Tinlicker Fractal from ABGT350 Prague with Ableton Live and Serum only. #Tinlicker #ABGT #Fractal #AbletonLive #Ableton #Serum
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV19m4y1Z7pZ
It teaches how to make the rhythm with different sounds like ‘clap’ and ‘drum’.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bv411B7fJ
This video shows how to make the music of a song called ‘sunny day’ composed by Jay Zhou.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15E411H73m
We can learn about the music theory necessary when we using DAM.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV19m4y1Z7pZ
It teaches how to make the rhythm with different sounds like ‘clap’ and ‘drum’.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bv411B7fJ
This video shows how to make the music of a song called ‘sunny day’ composed by Jay Zhou.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15E411H73m
We can learn about the music theory necessary when we using DAM.
#GarageBand
This is a good way to quickly understand the steps of making songs! I think this is really useful for the newcomers like us!: https://www.songwriting.net/blog/10-simple-steps-to-write-a-song
Also you can listen other's idea from some comment sharing website like this! https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/b7cncm/how_to_write_a_good_baseline/ This website is more well-rounded but is a little bit of hard for read. Whereas, I think once you read them all, you can gain more knowledge! https://www.artofcomposing.com/how-to-compose-music-101
This one is like a more advanced website. It is better for our music composing future ! https://www.schoolofcomposition.com/how-to-get-better-at-music-composition/
This website is focus on the age of the music students. It is very friendly for everyone! https://www.bsmny.org/instrument-discovery/a-beginners-guide-to-composing/
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HOW TO COMPOSE MUSIC?
First, think about which kind of music you want to write.\
Second, develop your composing rational side. For example, use musical harmony and chords, compose melodies techniques, arrangements and accompaniments techniques.
Third, choose a mood and a theme, choose a song structure or format.
Forth, start with the melody
Fifth create and polish the score or chart and use real instruments to play the music score.
And here is the reference: https://bettersongs.com/how-to-compose-music/#:~:text=How%20to%20Compose%20a%20Song%20in%2010%20Steps,Real%20Musicians%20and%20Real%20Instruments%2010%20Keep%20Going
Sorry that I am fail to share my finding here. In the last hour, this website always said 'Please confirm you're human.' when I wanted to type the websites in the 'comment', whatever I used the safari or google. So if you want to see my sharing, please click my username and you will find my post.
how to write counterpoint.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Pq4y1R7NL?from=search&seid=15364388179312819764&spm_id_from=333.337.0.0
This is Leo's post!!!!!
This is a lesson on how to write counterpoint. Really useful and easy!
If you guys want to make music in your ROOM, just by a microphone and some sound-absorbing cotton to create a small place to record the vocal... Furthermore, we may need several headphones and earphones of different brands to check your music in various settings... Last, DO SOME FREESTYLES, which are really helpful... and keep listening to music🔥🔥🔥.
This website gives you a basic idea of how to write music in general. It contains various tutorals like writing chords, melodies, structure... Most importantly, it is an interactive learning tool which is good for the beginners to click an discover.
#music_production #introduction #beginners
This video contains 50 example chord progressions to inspire you to write a melody or write new chords.
#chords
This video teaches you how to write chords according to a melody, which is really helpful if you only have an idea of a melody and is frustrated while writing the harmony.
#chords #melody
This video teaches you step by step about how to install plugins like synths and effects in different DAWs.
#VST #plugins
This video teaches you how to do some basic mixing using EQ (equalizer), which will make your music sounds more harmonious.
#EQ #mixing
I suggest you guys can try Able Ton live 11 or Logic Pro X or FL Studio! These are very strong and professional tools!😋
GarageBand is a great tool to help us composing music.😆
how to automate midi and ramp midi values
https://www.zrythm.org/videos/ramp-tool_2020_11_14.webm
This is a good video on teaching us how to use ramp tools. This video consists of captions that can help us understand better. DAW:Zrythm #ramptools #MIDI #Zrythm
how to create objects, snapping, Brush mode
https://www.zrythm.org/videos/edit-tool_2020_11_14.webm
This is a good video on teaching us how to create objects, snapping, Brush mode.This video consists of captions that can help us understand better.
DAW:Zrythm #edit #brushmode
how to use select and stretch tool
https://www.zrythm.org/videos/select-stretch_2020_11_03.webm This is a good video on teaching us how to use select and stretch tool.This video consists of captions that can help us understand better. DAW:Zrythm
#selecttool #stretchtool
how to use cut tool
https://www.zrythm.org/videos/cut-tool_2020_11_14.webm_11_14.webm This is a good video on teaching us how to use cut tool.This video consists of captions that can help us understand better. DAW:Zrythm #cuttool
how to use Looping Regions
https://www.zrythm.org/videos/zrythm-loop-audio2-2020-07-20.webm This is a good video on teaching us how to use Looping Regions.This video consists of captions that can help us understand better. DAW:Zrythm
#LoopingRegions
It's impressive. I have learnt some basic skills about the GarageBand but also about the chord.
Method 1: https://www.songwriting.net/blog/10-simple-steps-to-write-a-song Method2:https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/b7cncm/how_to_write_a_good_baseline/
Method 3: https://www.artofcomposing.com/how-to-compose-music-101
Method 4: https://www.schoolofcomposition.com/how-to-get-better-at-music-composition/
Method 5: https://www.bsmny.org/instrument-discovery/a-beginners-guide-to-composing/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTruUa2jBUg&ab_channel=StudioHacks
This is a great video on how to write a chord progression using garageband. I liked how it takes a step-by-step approach and includes arpeggiation.
#bassline #garageband #arpeggiator
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