I have a synthesizer with touch-sensitive keys and DAW with a lot of of VSTs and plugins on PC. My musical background is unfortunately zero. I can't afford private teacher , but there is way too much information online and I am not quite sure where to begin. Music theory? Piano? Reading notes? If all of it, then in what order?
I want to make ambient music like ATB or Jean Michel Jarre like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4e_sfXxiKs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8nN8nnTnDQ
For a little practice today, I managed to play the chords from the main melody here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJgm_6iKhvk but quickly ran into challenges. I tried to play it by ear and simply found good combinations which are probably called chords. The melody works, but it took me maybe 50 times before I could actually press the keys in the right order, and the speed was far from perfect. I wrote down letters and numbers on the keys to make it easier, but by doing that I began to rely on them too much and kept messing up even more. It seemed easier when I just stopped looking at key letters altogether, but still highly challenging to make notes sound exactly how they should, not too fast, not too slow... Etc. Not to mention having no clue what chords I'm making and know nothing about piano.
Does it actually get easier with practice? The ability to press the right keys at right times? And as I'm just practicing to play existing music, am I actually learning the right things if my goal is to learn to compose? How do composers even play everything so perfectly ? How much did they study? Does it all come from their minds ? When they're composing, do they just instantly play their songs correctly the first time? Do they rely on existing music theory and use existing rules/chords/progressions to make their songs or are they just making their own rules for everything?
Submitted August 03, 2018 at 08:21PM by ToxicHuman91 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/94eh6f/i_want_to_learn_piano_to_make_ambient_music/?utm_source=ifttt