Good question. The fact is that a lot of Trance artists out there have no real musical talent.

I think the artists who have undisputable talent are Sunscreem and Delirium. On the other hand, Paul van Dyk and Armin van Buuren do not, in my opinion, measure up to this level. They produced some tunes that define their career ("For an Angel" and "Communication," respectively), but the question of talent is very debatable. AvB still can't play keyboards (he uses software); PvD, while able to play chords on a piano, taught himself only recently, and he certainly had no idea that he wanted to tie his life to music until very late in his life. You could say that M.I.K.E./Push has real musical talent, just by the sheer volume and fame of his works, but I doubt that also.

What is relevant here is that these people have experience, which is extremely important in this business. They know how to make a club sound, how to master the track and make it professional, and this experience helps them turn a lackluster tune into a spectacular one. And in Trance, experience/professionalism sometimes overshadows real musical talent.

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yea...umm...i play the bass guitar...guitar...a little bit of piano...errr...the drums...etc.. my dad is a musician..so it stuck with me

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i think i should have put this thread in the music section..not the DJ section...oh well

agreed



ask a mod to move it....you might have better luck in that forum

or maybe the production lounge is where it should be

i play a bit of the guitar and the piano... and i play a kind of drum.

anyways, i think to be a successful producer, you have to be both a musician and an engineer of sound... its one thing to be able to write the music, but its another to make it sound right. You can only make the piano sound a couple of different ways, but a synthesizer's range is endless..

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playing keyboard for about 4 years now..

the only thing is that my keyboard isn`t made for trance, so i don`t get any help from it with my producing

good question and good answer eugene!

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Originally posted by mantisnl playing keyboard for about 4 years now.. the only thing is that my keyboard isn`t made for trance, so i don`t get any help from it with my producing

Buy a MIDI keyboard and hook it up to your comp. Then use a prog like Reason or FruityLoops. Of course a nice hardware synth would be even better...

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I've been playing guitar professionally on and off for about 10 years. I'm still playing in a band, but recently I've picked up DJ'ing as a hobby. Having experience on guitar has helped me (as a DJ) to identify song composition and rhythm, but unfortunately not in beatmatching.

With my current musical knowledge I think I could compose songs. But as people have said in this thread, the emphasis in trance is more on how the sounds are engineered than how the song is composed. The engineering part takes a lot of time and money. Having the proper equipment helps tremendously. To equate to the guitar world: Once I got a pro guitar rig, I finally understood why the equipment was so important: sound quality. Just my $.02

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Originally posted by DJ LIQUID yea...umm...i play the bass guitar...guitar...a little bit of piano...errr...the drums...etc.. my dad is a musician..so it stuck with me

lol yea dude
my father's a music teacher in a high school i know wot ya mean

play the drums and guitar....and some lousy keyboard

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All rhythm evolves around a kick...

i played the piano for about 6 years and ive been playing the classical guitar for about 10 years.

I definately think it helps having a musical background in regards to composing, however there is no substitution for innovation and imagination... knowing chord structure, harmonies and so forth will only get you so far...

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nothing to see here... move along please