Ever since i started listening to EDM (House & Trance in particular) I started to think about making such music, few years later got introduced to Fruity Loops by a friend and I started to make some simple *cough* "beats" *cough*.
Obviously I didn't know anything about playing piano/synthesizers, the use of chords/chord progression, I even didn't even know how to make a correct 4/4 beat.
I started to play around with the software a bit, but i realized that it probably would be impossible for me to make music (in particular music that other people would enjoy, cause that was what I really want to do - I'm still keeping this dream alive today.)
Anyway whatever i made - sounded as shit, yet i kept on experimenting with sounds and making those shitty beats, each attempt was a slight improvement - by trial and error.
After a while I thought i knew and understood something, well the truth is that I didn't know jack shit, and I still don't know a whole lot about creating music, for example the technical finessés of creating advanced harmonies - I am self purely taught and don't know whats right and wrong.
When i think about people who can create real music i think about Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin and other musical geniouses of their like . Luckily we're talking about a diffrent genre here so you don't really need skills of that caliber
Well, years have passed now, and I'm even using a midisynth to make my music nowadays instead of dotting out note patterns in the sequencer editor
So I'll get to the point...Today (and yesterday), after around 30+ hours of effort with some breaks here and there ...I've reached a landmark in my musical "carreer" or whatever you may call it, so I'm sharing the fruits of my labor here for your pleasure (hopefully... ).
Oh btw, I can't really make music.... What I'm doing is materializing my emotions by combinating various sounds in harmonies and take you to somewhere else if you let me... Hopefully that's wat the very essence of music is? Probably?!
Good night & Enjoy
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