Anyone with basic knowledge of music feels the need to create new pieces of music. A few tips for those who don't know where to start.
It is necessary
- Inspiration is desirable;
- Electronic musical instrument with jack input;
- Cable with "jack" and "minijack" outputs (if the outputs are of only one type, then the corresponding connectors);
- A computer with a sound recording program installed;
- Speakers or headphones;
- Poems for which you are going to write music;
- A piece of paper and a pen (or voice recorder);
- Fundamentals of musical knowledge and ear for music.
Instructions
Step 1
If there is no inspiration, call it up. It's not hard.
The lyrics are there, so just read them out loud by playing chords on the instrument in random order in different keys. Experiment with time signature and rhythm.
If you usually compose with a keyboard instrument, grab a guitar, improvise on it. Conversely, if you are composing on the guitar, sit down at the keys. Even try to compose the verse on the piano and the chorus on the guitar. Write down all ideas on paper or a voice recorder.
Listen to your favorite song, analyze its elements: melody, rhythm, harmony, etc. Determine what you liked about her.
Think about how the song will make your listeners feel. The emotional attitude will tell you where the song should start.
Step 2
Come up with an introduction. It should be a short piece based on a certain rhythm, melodic course or timbre (instrumental) paint. Often the introduction becomes the "business card" of the song, the whole work is recognized by it. Make it bright and short.
Step 3
After a few improvisations, you will have a melody. It will become the core of the song, the theme song (verse). Continue to improvise, now you need to compose the chorus theme.
Step 4
Vary the themes from verse to verse. Do not get carried away, but you can at least change the key (raise by half a tone or tone), add some kind of broken move or something else.
Step 5
Start arranging. Sign the bass to the melody. Change it no more often than after two quarters and no less than after two or four measures. Changing too fast will not be heard, and stopping too long will tire the listener.
Step 6
The bass can also change. In the second or third verse, raise or lower it in places by a third, but if the melody has changed a lot, do not touch the bass too much.
Step 7
Now get into rhythm and harmony. They are so interconnected that they are sometimes called in one word - rhythm harmony. It is the chord, the paint of the music, the background between the bass and the melody.
Watch the pulse rate of the harmony. It should match the character of the song. With a measured melody, there may be frequent pulsations, and with a melody with a complex rhythm, there may be slow pulsations. The main thing is to justify, to prove that it is necessary.
Step 8
Compose a backing. It can be slightly below the melody or slightly above. It sounds, as a rule, in pauses after the main melody, complementing it, for the most part, in pauses. Give it a tone different from the main melody, and the volume slightly lower.
Step 9
Errors in composition are not errors, but violations of the law. And violation of the law in art is not a violation, but a search for something new. So be wrong. Mistakes will lead you to interesting moves in melody, rhythm, harmony, and other elements.
Step 10
This is the most elementary way of composing, it does not take into account all the elements allowed in the composition. Keep experimenting, looking for new shapes. This is how you develop your own style and creative handwriting.
