Junko Enoshima said:
MattMVS7 said:
Nijino Yume said:
Fam. I spent over 10 years and I am still pursuing music, I can't just do all these work. I am getting paid for teaching people how to play instruments and drawing irl, and i cannot just guide someone on the internet to compose a perfect track with nothing in return. All you can do is trial and error by yourself, and really, I don't have much free time to do this because my college semester is incoming, I do cosplays, I dance for my local cosplay group and stuff, and I work. If you don't believe it, ask most of the people in this forum who are active. I really do not have the time to do this, which is something that's literally me teaching you composition, how to utilise the music program, and track mixing techniques for nothing. Keep trying. This is the boldest advice.
This means that I have to dedicate my life then to learn all of this information so that I can successfully convey these themes and that successfully conveying them is not like some quick user manual.
Yes. That is how learning to perfect any craft works. Don't be a dunce.
I think it was just one big misunderstanding is all. I thought there was the difference between what I need to learn in order to successfully convey my themes as opposed to learning additional things that are not necessary which would be equivalent to putting condiments on a cake as I said earlier. There are things we need to learn in life and then there are things we don't need to learn. Although, we could learn them if we are interested. I thought that what I needed to learn was just some quick user manual or, simply put, just some series of quick steps I could follow. All the additional information out there to be learned would just be the rest of the entire body of the composing art that I could learn if I want to in order to craft/perfect my themes even more. Although, it is really not necessary. But I see that I was wrong on this one and that I really do need to learn everything that is out there. You see, when I have things on my mind and I explain them in my journal, I present what I have to say in such a way that is unclear and not fully explained to the reader.
I expect it to be something so obvious and self-explanatory to the reader. But it really is necessary that I fully explain in order for them to understand. It's so obvious only to me since I know what this is supposed to mean. But, in reality, it is not obvious at all for the reader. The same thing applies to me making music. I put down the right notes and rests to my themes, add instruments, and expect people to get my themes and their catchy quality and power. I expect it to be something so obvious for listeners when it is only obvious to me since I know what these themes are supposed to be. But I have finally realized that it really is necessary for me to fully explain my themes, if you will, by learning everything there is out there to be learned about composing. From there, I would implement all of this learned information into fully explaining my themes. With this being said, I have come to realize that composers who want my craft to be fully perfected are not just musical perfectionists. Having my craft fully perfected really is necessary to successfully convey it.
One last thing here. Let me share something to you very interesting. I created some themes in my mind that I thought were amazing and catchy. I reproduced the right notes and the right rests to these themes. But then I forgot what these themes were supposed to be later on. When I played them to listen to them, I found myself wondering what the heck this was. It was all just a bunch of musical gibberish. It was like a cat walking on the keyboard just like how others are telling me my themes are. But then I tried to remember what this theme was supposed to be. I managed to bring back that memory and, all of a sudden, that theme that was once perceived as random notes became that great, amazing, catchy theme again. From this, I can gather that I really do need to fully convey my themes. Otherwise, they will appear as randomness to listeners. The only reason why I am able to perceive my reproduced themes as great and catchy is because I have a memory there of what these themes are supposed to be. When I lose that memory, I perceive my themes as randomness since said themes are just notes, rests, and a beat at this point and haven't been fully conveyed. I only tend to lose these memories when first creating these themes.
But the memory later sticks and becomes permanent. This is just me, but I think people should be intrigued and excited because I could really have these amazing, catchy themes all right there and all that is needed left is to find a way to fully convey them which would be like making very bright colored text into an eligible color. That might be an awful analogy, but I used that analogy anyway and I think you can still see the point I'm trying to make. This is the moment of truth here. Am I just delusional and think I have these amazing, catchy themes when they really aren't (#1) or do I really have something amazing and catchy here that I just need to fully convey (#2)? Only time will tell and only I can prove whether possibility #1 was right all along or if #2 was right all along. I could be an unrecognized musical savant here who just needs to learn to convey his masterpieces. If I was really right all along when I say it was #2, then I was speaking words of wisdom and truth when I said that the themes I have created in my mind really were amazing and catchy. So, I could also be speaking words of wisdom and truth when it comes to my worldview. All I am asking is that others do not dismiss the possibility that #2 is right and neither to dismiss the possibility that my worldview is true regardless of how much you think it is nonsense.
