Oh MY! Please don`t ATTACK me!!!

i`m in a band. were trying to sound like..ray charles "what i`d say". I was told to make up a riff and i just drew a mind blank. Could somebody help me out?

hello sir.. i m a musician, keyboard, the instrument that i playing. my AIM is want to be a music composer, but the problem is i want know how to composing the music, the rules on the music, sound, mastering, mixing and other... but i want to learn this in the short time. 10q

It takes time to know all of those things. My cousin is 23 and he is still mastering composition. Your piano playing wil help. what grade are you on?

what im doing at the moment is choosing a novel tht i have read and find the feeling of it. i then put my feelings onto Sibelius 3 and start composing. e.g. if it is a horror book i put it into a minor key likewise with happy books - major key

Van your orchestral works seems way better than your pityful atempt to play the piano...it`s like that!some are good with composition some are instrumentists, both at the same time makes you a master composer, but it`s obviously not your case.

Exactly!! I wish i was better at the piano but i play my violin better. I sit fo a couple of hours with my manuscript paper and my keyboard and just think things up. A good technique for wannabe composers is Shonberg`s 12 Tone Series. Randomly, on your manuscript paper pic 12 notes. They can be flats or sharps or naturals, just as long you don`t repeat the same note twice. And then there is your `key` notes and you can make a melody with them. Then you can convert it into bass clef and make chords. And if you are really smart you can invert it or do retrograde or a retrograde inversion!! But you have to be good to do that!!! LOl!! well thats my advice that i got from my cousin!

Please study the music and study at least one instrument, that will take form you several years "not less than 10 years". And you have to study the music theory, solfege, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration... etc, etc, then you can compose "if you are talented in composing". It is not a joke to say; I am a composer.
Listen; I have many compositions, one of the orchestras was playing my music "a symphonic poem" then I saw the poster and it was written "Beethoven, Hindemith, Elgar and me", I became very shy because my name was written behind these great names.

My best advice is simply to play the piano. When you learn a piano piece by a great master, even the very simplest, you absorb a lot of theoretical concepts without even trying. Because you`re playing several notes at a time, it often communicates the composer`s orchestral style. I don`t think it`s something composers try to do. The knowledge just seeps into their music. You can learn pretty much everything but some doublings this way. But the things you absorb this way fade over time. Studying theory can fix them in your memory and help you limitlessly. If you want to know what music written in this way sounds like (one person`s version, anyway) you might head over to http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=211780 and check some stuff out.

hey!!!!...yay!!!!..i finished composing my latest piece...its my first piano concerto..but sadly i had to reduce the orchestral parts to a second piano because i sent the piece in for competitions..its like 40 pages.i mean..imagine if i had to write out the whole damn score ya know?..so yeah..if anyone wants to see it..and has finale..i`ll try to send it to them if they want..or if i even can