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How to compose music

How to compose music is as follows:

1. Cover

We can cut out the highlights of our favorite songs, and then use these contents to enrich the arrangement. My own arrangement. With long-term reference and learning, I gradually developed my own style and was able to compose and arrange music on my own. For example, Xu Song's early "Funeral of Roses" imitated Jay Chou, and there are many more.

2. Find inspiration from other special music

This method of finding inspiration from other special music is often used by the Second-hand Rose band. The music of Second-hand Rose is similar to rock music and A combination of Northeastern duo, the suona sound directly hitting Tianling Gai is the soul of the song. In addition to Errenzhuan, there are also Chinese quintessences such as Peking Opera. For example, "The Female Consort" incorporates elements of Huangmei Opera.

3. Make use of the characteristics of various musical instruments

Our motherland has a vast territory, and various ethnic groups have many different musical instruments. Such as Hulusi and Bawu from Yunnan, Dutar from Xinjiang, Morinouqin from Inner Mongolia, etc. These instruments all have unique styles and characteristics. Adding these distinctive instruments to the arrangement can immediately highlight the style of the music.

4. Pure diatonic scale

This method is very suitable for writing long melodies. After the arrangement is completed, the chords can be written. For example, the major and minor keys that we are more familiar with:

Major diatonic scale: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Minor diatonic scale: 6 7 1 2 3 4 5

5. Repeat

After we finish writing a piece of music, such as the climax of a song, we can add it to the appropriate position of the music over and over again. This is more common. . In recent years, the climax of a song is often added at the beginning to catch the audience's ears, and then the climax appears multiple times in the middle of the song.

In addition to the five methods of composing and composing music introduced above, there are many more methods according to the habits of the music producer, such as imitating human speech sounds, continuously surrounding and spreading around a musical theme, etc.