Makin Music
Jan. 22nd, 2025 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreI remember in my teen years I'd always fancy being in a band. Once I even made some posters for a band, asking for other folks who'd like to join. But I had no idea what actually went into BEING a band.
I also thought a song was written by someone, and it was something they came up with in their head then wrote or played the whole thing and recorded it like that. I had absolutely no clue that songs are generally a case of someone writing music, someone else writing lyrics and finding which two pieces fit, then a producer going over the recording and chopping and changing and rearranging until it sounded good and that was the finished piece.
I've only learned about this process really in the last few years. No wonder I was never able to actually be in a band or write any actual music, I
misunderstood the whole process. I feel it's the same way for a lot of things.
I also thought a song was written by someone, and it was something they came up with in their head then wrote or played the whole thing and recorded it like that. I had absolutely no clue that songs are generally a case of someone writing music, someone else writing lyrics and finding which two pieces fit, then a producer going over the recording and chopping and changing and rearranging until it sounded good and that was the finished piece.
I've only learned about this process really in the last few years. No wonder I was never able to actually be in a band or write any actual music, I
misunderstood the whole process. I feel it's the same way for a lot of things.
