Requirements for learning to compose
(1) Love life, experience life, and be good at observing life
Usually, you should see more and more in life Listen, analyze more, expand your horizons, and increase your life accumulation. Not only should we be good at observing and analyzing various people and things, we should also have a deeper understanding of the beautiful nature - mountains, fields, seas, rivers, wind, flowers, snow, moon, etc. Only in this way, when you want to write songs about the subject, will your mind not be empty and without any associations. Just imagine, if a composer has never seen a mountain, how can he write a song about mountain climbing? At most, he can only rely on indirect introductions from movies, TV shows or books, but he will never be able to understand the rhythm of the steps while climbing, and the joyful mood after climbing to the top of the mountain.
(2) Must have a certain knowledge of music theory
Songs are expressed through music, and music needs to be recorded in musical notation. Therefore, songwriters must have considerable knowledge of music theory, and young people should lay a good foundation in this area first. Just imagine, a good lyric touches you, and you really want to compose it into a song. However, you don’t know how to express the song in your mind using musical notation; or even though it’s written down in musical notation, it’s not accurate or accurate. It's not a good song to write if it's incomplete or even far from your original intention.
(3) Be good at learning various musical languages ??
Songs express ideas through musical language, so if you want to write good songs, you must first learn to accumulate rich musical languages. In daily life, a person's eloquence is good and people praise him for being "well-spoken". This is not innate, but the result of continuous accumulation and repeated training of language. Similarly, if you want to write good songs, you should continue to accumulate a rich musical language for you to use in your creative practice. Some friends may ask, where can I find the language of music? How to accumulate? There are many channels, such as the various ethnic groups, operas, folk arts and traditional music of our country, the excellent works of the older generation of composers such as Nie Er, Xian Xinghai, Xiao Youmei, Huang Zi, etc., and some excellent art songs and mass songs that are currently widely circulated. , popular songs, new operas and film and television music, as well as excellent foreign classical and modern music works, we should be familiar with and learn from them carefully. Just like a sponge absorbs water, the more it absorbs, the more reserves it has, and when you need to refer to it, it will be ready for you to use. Learning from the creative experience of predecessors is the only way to create literature and art, and song creation is no exception. If you master few tunes, your musical language will not be very rich, and sometimes it will appear pale and monotonous. The works of famous contemporary composers such as He Luting, Li Huanzhi, Liu Chi, Qu Xixian, Wang Luobin, Shi Guangnan, etc. all have an "indissoluble bond" with folk music, and have absorbed rich musical nutrients from excellent music works at home and abroad, both ancient and modern. , so their eloquence can be loved by the masses. We should also be good at studying the works of our predecessors and analyze their successes and failures instead of blindly copying them, because life is generally rich and colorful, and it is changing and developing every moment. You also need to learn to analyze your own songs, often be your own teacher, constantly sum up your experience and lessons, and only with an attitude of striving for excellence can you improve quickly. In addition, qualified friends should also master more music knowledge and composition skills, such as harmony, polyphony and work analysis that are directly related to song creation. They can help us learn to analyze songs thoroughly, improve creative skills, and master composition skills faster.
(4) Must have considerable literary foundation
Songs are a combination of music and lyrics. Therefore, the literary level of the songwriter will be directly related to the quality of song creation. We must love literature, care about literature, and constantly improve our own literary standards. For novels and reportages, we will continue to improve our literary standards. Great attention should be given to novels, reportage, essays, and especially poetry. Songwriters must have certain literary accomplishments, such as an understanding of various poems, including genres, creations, and phonological characteristics. In this way, you can choose the best from a large number of colorful lyrics to compose music, and you can even write the lyrics yourself. In creative practice, it is not uncommon for the entire song creation to fail due to inappropriate lyrics selection.
It is often seen that some composers work hard on music, but ultimately fail because they ignore the role of lyrics. I hope that friends will continue to improve their literary accomplishments to adapt to the ever-changing requirements of song creation
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Once you have experienced life and mastered certain writing skills, you should “write frequently and practice more.” If the knowledge you learn only stays in the book concepts without practice and regular practice, you will not be able to write good tunes. This is the saying "practice makes perfect". However, when we talk about writing diligently, we mean using your brain to write with intention, rather than writing aimlessly. For example, you can write a complete song based on appropriate lyrics, or you can write a tune based on your own abilities and specific emotional requirements, or even just write one or a few different phrases. Get exercise and improve from it. The step-by-step rule is also applicable to learning composition.
How to become a successful person in songwriting
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See After this proposition, many songwriting enthusiasts will definitely have their eyes lit up. After struggling for a long time, someone finally can point out the way. But I want to make it clear first that the following article must have a good psychological quality, and only friends who have experienced countless failures can see the essence of it, and start a music creation journey full of thorns.
Requirements for writing lyrics```
Maybe you have seen some general talks about some successful songwriters from newspapers and magazines, such as chance, a thousand-mile horse and a thousand-mile horse. Bole, the legendary story about the plum blossoms coming from the bitter cold, the head hanging from the beam, and the awl biting the bone. It cannot be said that these things are all fiction, but they are rare and rare. You can make up your own stories about what you say after you succeed, but the experience behind real success is probably only known to people in the industry best. First of all, the professional qualities necessary for a songwriter are a standard that few people can meet. This includes not only your musical accomplishment and literary accomplishment, but also your keen market insight and complex interpersonal relationships. Hard-working professionalism, recognition of the authenticity of musical works, and not being conceited.
Keeping market insight is a prerequisite for writing works. The characteristic of my country’s music market is that works must be targeted and cannot blindly pursue so-called artistry, so who can detect it? Whoever meets the real needs of the market will be more sure of success.
The purpose of reminding you to have complex interpersonal relationships is to give you more opportunities to participate, because some of our friends do have the talent for songwriting, but lack contact with the production process. If your Interpersonal relationships are very complex and communication is broad. After you write a song, your friend happens to be a producer, so do you have more opportunities than others?
Hard-working professionalism: Music creation is an industry that is both brilliant and bleak. Those who succeed gain both fame and fortune, while those who do not succeed cannot afford food and clothing. If you don't have the hard-working spirit of professionalism, it will be difficult for you to see the dawn of dawn.
Recognition of the ultimate nature of musical works is a way of self-evaluation. Some friends always tell me how good they think their works should be sung by, and how much they are worth. Whose work is not as good as his, and so on, etc. In fact, this is conceit, because all this is not evaluated by ourselves, everything is evaluated by the market, by the audience, and by numerous music producers.
If you have all the above points, can you succeed? No, you still have to have money, otherwise it will be difficult for you to become famous.
If you don’t have the above points, can’t you succeed? No, as long as you have money, you still have a chance and it’s still huge.
If you have all the above points and you still have money, you will definitely succeed.
The above text is not only my personal opinion, but also my personal experience in writing songs and songs for nine years. I advise my friends that there are many choices in life, and not all of them may be suitable for you, but as long as you work hard to create After that, there will always be a memory in life that is beautiful.