Thread: Composing Music

I would suggest getting a MIDI authoring program, like cakewalk. Just start plugging the parts you can "hear" in your head, and fill in the rest as you go. It's all point and click, with a staff format for the musically literate, and a piano roll view for those that can't read music. All in all, a great program; I think it would help you out a lot.

Oh, yes, the Music College would be a wonderful help. It would help you to understand exactly what you are hearing in your head. Right now you understand about melodies and harmonies to some extent. But in college you would be taken in depth to the theories which allow for all of the orchestration and elaboration that goes into the sublimity of the finest music that we sometimes hear in our heads, but which can't be translated later with a hum or a whistle. My twin brother came home from Music College, and it was quite obvious that it had sharpened his musical discernments. Then, when he would think of a song, he would be waving his arms about telling me what the Strings would be doing, and the woodwyns would be over here, and then the Horns would come in... blah blah blah, that is, he was better ready to actually fully capture what had been created in his mind.

But those MIDI programs earlier discussed would be of utility also. A book or two on music theory. And then listening closely to Classical and Popular Music with a mind to what they call Orchestration in Classical Music, and what they call Production in Popular Music. I personally hate Rap Music, but there we can see a simplity of production which helps us understand how Elaborations and Counterpoints add their necessary texture. Afterall, without the background Production, it would simply be some loudmouth cursing out in rhyming expletives.

Then other instances of Popular Music come as quite a warning to budding musicians. This is because an ever increasing amount of Popular Music is no longer employing musicians. Much of the Music is from synthesized or sampled sources layed down from keyboard into multitrack sequencer programs. It is a great exercise for the person creating the entire structure, but it reduces jobs in the Music Industry.

Oh, it makes me think though. I was thinking that it may have been an advantage to the Artist that he could keep total control over his compositions because he would not be limited by the grade and character of the musicians that he would have had to bring in before, to fill out his Full Sound. But then I immediately thought of how in a great deal of instances, these other musicians come with ideas that are incorporated. David Bowie, one of the greatest composers of Popular Music, when he wants to develop a new sound, simply goes to a new town and works with a new group of musicians he had not worked with previously. Then, voila! he is suddenly thinking in terms of new phrases and new rhythms. Creativity by osmosis.

And, yes, do keep up with your Mantras and your Spirituality. Light brought into your Higher Chakras is exactly what brings the Consciousness the Substance it takes to crystalize into Creative Thoughts that have a tangibility enough to be captured into memory and eventual application.

Indeed, it is sometimes weird, the way it works. One of my jungle cats, perhaps the meanest girl that had come out to take over not just one but two of my feeding stations. I hated that thing, but there was hardly anything I could do. She was naturally an alpha and if the other cats could not keep her controlled, well, so much is the Law of the Jungle. But then, one day she came and chased the other cats from the food, but did not eat anything herself. And the same happened day after day. A few days went by and I saw her coming, and she tripped into a ditch as she was navigating her way, and at first I laughed and then it occurred to me the great implausibility of an Alpha Queen ever being caught in clumsiness. It is something that should never be seen. Impossible. Then, I thought, oh my God, she is dying. She was getting thinner and thinner everyday, wasting away. And something exceedingly strange was occurring. She was following me everywhere, right at my side. I had hated her, but it is difficult to hate a side by side companion, and it began to work upon my compassion and empathy. Finally, when I thought she had not much longer, I went out in the evening and a Song came to me -- a soothing ballad from The Creative Source, and I sat down and sang it to her. it was about Love and being a Good Cat. and then there was something of a Miracle. With the Music from above came the thought that if this cat was so weak that it was about to die, then it was also too weak to fight off being captured. So I went back to the house and got my snake pole noose and my nets, and I captured her. I took her to the Animal Hospital the next day and the good Doctor sedated her. I thought she had been poisoned by something, but upon the most cursory examination, the Doctor discovered that the cat had merely gotten a bone wedged into her teeth which had disabled her ability to chew anything. So, yes, DO keep up your Mantras and your other Spiritual Exercises -- they strengthen both Creativity and Discernment. Oh, that Cat, Bloggie, is doing well. More beautiful than she ever had been, and unlike other wild ferals, she allows me to thump her on the side and pet her... she seems to be aware that I had been instrumental in helping her out.