Focus of my first year music hobby was limited to composition and transcription. I am now shifting my goals to making audio products using DAWs and VSTs, learning more about mixing and mastering, perhaps a touch of video production! "Pulse and Water" uses Sennheiser Binaural Pan filter -- use of good set of headphones is recommended if you have one! Enjoy!
How long did it take you to get this good?! I am trying to get my music out of my head, but I'm having a hard time getting the timing right. Do you have a musical degree or are you self-taught? This gives me hope that I can do it starting with MuseScore too.
I'm an old person now, but I used to play piano when I was very young. I have a technical degree but not in music! Composing hobby is something I started about 2 years ago after taking lots of web-based classes on music theory, composition, audio production (DAW, mixing/mastering), orchestration and film scoring. This requires a lot of time dedication, I'm afraid. However the total cost of classes is very minimal as long as you're not looking for credentials for career pursuits. Musescore is a great software to get started - it is very powerful and it is a free open source software! MuseScore4 (new version 4) should be out very soon with better audio playback engine so keep watch on that one! I should warn you that it is not easy to port a major composition on Musescore into a DAW. I'm still looking for an "easier way" to do this! I looked at the scores video for your lullaby - looks like your timing got shifted at start of Verse 1 (24 seconds into the video). If you put your first quarter note where the rest is before it, I think everything will shift into place. It's a beautiful song - very nice singing!
@@ShawTakeuchi Thank you for sharing your story, feedback, and encouragement! Thank you also for taking the time to listen to my own music. Actually, I also only had piano when I was younger (like from 5-10 years old). I still had a hard time with timing then and reading notes, but I was able to mimic my piano teacher. My degree is in engineering, so I also am completely not in the music field. Actually, I am not even sure what I should be doing. I've wasted so much time and money on school already and there is very little growth in my current job. :/ I hope everything went well for you though. :) I started composing about 2 years ago too; a few years after a life perspective shift and joining my church choir. I have also been reading and watching music tutorials on MuseScore, DAWs, etc. I haven't looked up orchaestration yet though. I haven't been going too hard into the theory, because I wanted everything to not be limited in the classical box, but it is also a double-edged sword, because that means what I make might not easily work with current tools. I am also afraid that I might become too influenced by others and my songs morph into theirs subconsciously, so I haven't been listening to a lot of music lately. I actually found your video link from haunting the MuseScore posts regarding MuseScore 4. I am really excited for it, because trying to learn a DAW first and then get it to notate was really hard, so I am hoping an engraving focused DAW will help me a lot. I actually considered trying to help with the open source code, but a lot of the beginner issues are being tackled already and I am struggling with work-life balance. Anyway, thank you for responding to my comment. :)
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Beautiful!
Focus of my first year music hobby was limited to composition and transcription. I am now shifting my goals to making audio products using DAWs and VSTs, learning more about mixing and mastering, perhaps a touch of video production! "Pulse and Water" uses Sennheiser Binaural Pan filter -- use of good set of headphones is recommended if you have one! Enjoy!
Beautiful! 🧡
Thanks!
Love it
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it reminds me when I have this Chinese new year map on minecraft and the music in the world
How long did it take you to get this good?! I am trying to get my music out of my head, but I'm having a hard time getting the timing right. Do you have a musical degree or are you self-taught? This gives me hope that I can do it starting with MuseScore too.
I'm an old person now, but I used to play piano when I was very young. I have a technical degree but not in music! Composing hobby is something I started about 2 years ago after taking lots of web-based classes on music theory, composition, audio production (DAW, mixing/mastering), orchestration and film scoring. This requires a lot of time dedication, I'm afraid. However the total cost of classes is very minimal as long as you're not looking for credentials for career pursuits.
Musescore is a great software to get started - it is very powerful and it is a free open source software! MuseScore4 (new version 4) should be out very soon with better audio playback engine so keep watch on that one! I should warn you that it is not easy to port a major composition on Musescore into a DAW. I'm still looking for an "easier way" to do this!
I looked at the scores video for your lullaby - looks like your timing got shifted at start of Verse 1 (24 seconds into the video). If you put your first quarter note where the rest is before it, I think everything will shift into place. It's a beautiful song - very nice singing!
@@ShawTakeuchi Thank you for sharing your story, feedback, and encouragement! Thank you also for taking the time to listen to my own music.
Actually, I also only had piano when I was younger (like from 5-10 years old). I still had a hard time with timing then and reading notes, but I was able to mimic my piano teacher. My degree is in engineering, so I also am completely not in the music field. Actually, I am not even sure what I should be doing. I've wasted so much time and money on school already and there is very little growth in my current job. :/ I hope everything went well for you though. :)
I started composing about 2 years ago too; a few years after a life perspective shift and joining my church choir. I have also been reading and watching music tutorials on MuseScore, DAWs, etc. I haven't looked up orchaestration yet though.
I haven't been going too hard into the theory, because I wanted everything to not be limited in the classical box, but it is also a double-edged sword, because that means what I make might not easily work with current tools. I am also afraid that I might become too influenced by others and my songs morph into theirs subconsciously, so I haven't been listening to a lot of music lately.
I actually found your video link from haunting the MuseScore posts regarding MuseScore 4. I am really excited for it, because trying to learn a DAW first and then get it to notate was really hard, so I am hoping an engraving focused DAW will help me a lot.
I actually considered trying to help with the open source code, but a lot of the beginner issues are being tackled already and I am struggling with work-life balance.
Anyway, thank you for responding to my comment. :)
@@whitemagehealing8126 In finishing stages of my DAW conversion - hopefully I'll have something (much) better sounding next week!