Some questions for everyone that is reading this, how did you learn how to make music on AudioTool and how long did it take you?
Was is easy? Was it hard? Was is both?
What were the steps you've taken to learn most about what things do on this amazing music-making app and how do you know what you need to do to make your music hit?
If so then mind sharing any tips and tricks that would not only help me but help other people that is perusing music?
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I certainly don't make hits, but I started abt a year and a quarter ago. For abt 3 to 5 months I was rlly noob, experimenting with alot of silly stuff. Then one day, my friend @Bread told me how to use note tracks. From then I carried on a pretty good streak where I was enjoying making music alot. Then abt 2-3 months later, ppl start to notice me more, my music, and how it was still crappy. And I got a decent amount of criticism, and I got kinda jaded and felt like making music was a chore. Also, everyone on AT seems to make trap music. I hate that sooo many ppl do, cuz 2 weeks before I found out abt AT, I didn't even know what trap music was. Periods of wanting to make music and no wanting to make music are very common with me. Everything I learned since I've been on here was self taught. I only watched one AT tutorial, and it was for note editing for synths. Everything else was experimentation, or a "a size fits all" youtube mixing tutorial or something like that. I main as trap, and in the trap sub-genres I do hoodtrap, uzi type beats, southside, pluggnb, and jersey. And then I have my hybrid genres. I'm branching out towards house/ techno. But I like 90's style techno, more like eurobeat. My one, and most important piece of advice is: DON'T FOLLOW PPLS REQUESTS FOR SONG CHANGES UNLESS THEY ARE NOTICEABLE AND YOU DONT LIKE THEM. The BIGGEST mistake I made (and why making music feels like a chore most the time), is because I cater too much to what other ppl want my stuff to sound like. If ppl tell you "Well that's not dub-step, why'd you put it into dubstep dummy." Unless it is a polar opposite, follow your gut, and you will get much more outta this place.
Well, there are my words of wisdom/ AT story so far. Hope this helps.
PS: Rlly, if you want to make a hit, its all in the music. Watch videos abt how different progressions make you feel different. You want to ideally make a song that gives ppl a feeling they can't explain, but a good one.
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I think out of what little I have learned from my three weeks of Audiotool is to not overthink things. Keeping it simple means it stays good.
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it's been 9 years and i haven't stopped learning. i've heard of people making music for 20 years and they also don't stop learning. you can never truly finish learning anything. but how i started my first steps was just by remixing other people's tracks to see how they do their things, but if you do this be prepared to also learn other artist's mistakes ;-) its always hard to learn anything.
my advice for you would be to figure out why you even want to make music for the first place and then go from there. for 9 years i have decided to strictly only have fun making music and do it all for myself but now this goalpost has changed a few months ago to create real art. finding out why you want to make music really helps in my opinion since it helps you focus on doing what you love, and ultimately i think that is what is most important, as long as you are having the most fun with what you are doing, you don't need to learn everything if you don't truly want to. i didn't, and so i didn't learn anything. now i'm trying to learn more stuff!
it takes a long time to master music, so just keep working on yourself and remember to have fun!
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i have no idea what you're talking about
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Yes @kurp , my goal has always been quality music that I have fun making. Once you get too much quality, however, then you start criticizing yourself too much, and the quality drops.
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Thank you for the inspiring and informative info yito and kurp. I hope I can make it big one day.
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Oh yoo.
I started onna Chromebook, different account ofc.
There were a ton of like, elevations. It’s whenever I’d open someone’s track to, well peak around nd learn, maybe a little of toying around and I all of a sudden have an idea.