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Question for DJ'S/Producers who cant read notes
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| DJLafleur |
| How do you produce EDM if you cant read notes? I know Sander Van Doorn and Armin Van Buuren cant read any notes but they produce such great music. So how does the process work? |
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| echosystm |
do you think beethoven sat a desk writing on paper when he made fur elise, or do you think he sat at a piano?
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| DJLafleur |
| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
do you think beethoven sat a desk writing on paper when he made fur elise, or do you think he sat at a piano?
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yeah but he could read notes along with all composers,you really can't make a song unless you can read some form of music. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Most popular sequencers have piano keys on the side so that you can tell what notes you're entering.
And that is how producers can make tracks without knowing how to read sheet music. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
do you think beethoven sat a desk writing on paper when he made fur elise, or do you think he sat at a piano? |
Maybe not the best example. At least some composers have been known to write out compositions directly, without the aid of any instrument. Aaron Copland was one.
But learning how to do that takes way more training than most people have patience for. |
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| DJLafleur |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Most popular sequencers have piano keys on the side so that you can tell what notes you're entering.
And that is how producers can make tracks without knowing how to read sheet music. |
ahh I see thank you
Well I hope I can start producing soon(I can read notes which is probally a good thing) |
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| Fledz |
| Reading notes is not a pre-requisite at all. Trial and error often works quite well and if you have a good ear for melodies, reading notes becomes obsolete. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Reading sheet music isn't really required at all to produce decent electronic music. What's far more important is that you have an ear for intervals, chords, progressions, and how to use them to produce something that makes musical sense -- even if this knowledge is only the "intuitive" knowledge that comes from lots of practice. |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Maybe not the best example. At least some composers have been known to write out compositions directly, without the aid of any instrument. Aaron Copland was one.
But learning how to do that takes way more training than most people have patience for. |
my point was, you don't make music on paper. just because aaron copland wasn't sitting infront of a piano, doesn't mean he wasn't playing it in his mind. he just happened to record it on paper.
DJLafleur, being able to read/write music is of absolutely no benefit in creating music. the beatles couldn't. point in case, my mum has played piano since she was 8, but can't write a song to save her life. playing and creating are two different skills...
in electronic music, although they are available, you will never use a score editor. hence, there is no need to be able to read or write music. |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJLafleur
you really can't make a song unless you can read some form of music. |
wrong. |
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| Project-K |
| Written music only exists as a form of communication between the composer and the performers, something that doesn't exist in electronica. The composer interfaces directly with the technology and the information is stored digitally. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| The original assumption (that you can't make music, or good music, unless you can read notes) is definitely wrong. It excludes basically the entire history of folk music, for one... |
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