I want to compose even inexperience! Practical education site "Learning Music" recommended for beginners of DTM called

DTM is an abbreviation of desktop music, which means to produce songs using a personal computer. Abelton, a company that provides tools for the DTM, has an educational site that lets you compose music from the Web on the Web "Learning Music"Is released to the public. It makes it easy to understand intuitively by placing notes on the site and sounding sounds, even people who do DTM for the first time can compose in one day.

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When you visit the top page the first thing you can see is the 4 × 4 play button. If you look at the movie below you will understand what happens when you push it.

Combining phrases using Learning Music and trying to compose - YouTube


Try clicking the triangle mark on the upper left.


Then the drum rhythm began to flow. If you click on the button with the base on the right ... ...


The sound of the bass has come to be heard with the rhythm of the drum. Also click on the right chord and melody ......


It is no problem to say that it is no longer a part of the completed song. Four patterns are prepared for each drum, bass, chord, melody, so you can compose while trying out the buttons with easy clicking.


It is possible to search for phrases that you like in various combinations. Various types of songs are created by this method.


Click "Next: Make beats" at the bottom of the screen to proceed to the next page. Learning Music starts with a simple composition, and gradually rises as you advance the page, so if you step up with this feeling you can gradually acquire DTM's composing ability.


From the next page we will create patterns that will form the basis of the combination. Click the play button ......


The sound of the drum began to flow. When a white line passes through a portion that is shining yellow, a sound comes out.


When trying to click on the part surrounded by red red, the gray part turned yellow and the cymbal sounded when the white line passed.


"Open hat" "Closed hat" "Clap" "Kick" as the sound in the upper row, "Open hat" "Closed hat" "Snare" "Kick" as the sound in the lower row, The sound varies when you try to play.


Although the arrangement of the patterns is the same in these two, it differs in the point of whether it is an electronic sound or a raw sound, and on this page we will distinguish between the two differences between electronic sound and raw sound. For example, Kick is also known as a bass drum as an alias, but the electronic tone has a characteristic that the sound lasts longer than the raw tone.


Clap and applause. Recently, it is rare to record live sounds, and it seems that electronic sounds are often used.


"Snare" is the snare drum shown in the picture below. Also called side drum.


This is a hihat cymbal that can close a cymbal with a pedal. Closed Hat is a sound that hits a closed object, and Open Hat is a sound that hits an opened object.


At the bottom of this page introducing the difference between the electronic sound and the raw sound was supposed to be able to compare four sounds.


On the next page you will be prompted to place notes on the 1st, 5th, 9th, and 13th Kicks.


When placed in that street, a commentary appeared below. This arrangement is called "four striking" and the rhythm of four strikes is obvious and unlikely to collapse no matter how the top three rows are arranged.


If you get stuck with such problem type page, please click "Fill in solution" below to see the answer.


On the next page it was written that the atmosphere of the song will change by changing the tempo. Bpm is an abbreviation for Beat Per Minute and indicates beat per minute. If you move the bar left and right, you can see how the tempo actually changes.


Just by moving the bar and changing the tempo, the impression changes considerably.

How to hear a song when changing the tempo with Learning Music - YouTube


Beyonce 's song was displayed as I advanced the page.


Under the YouTube embedded movie, the phrase of the drum used in this song is displayed. Although the snare drum sounds only once in this, it is a problem of hitting the place. It was quite difficult, and the editorial staff who had no composition experience had no idea of ​​the correct answer at all.


The lessons like the one above are still continuing. In chapter chapter, "beat" is followed by "major key, minor code", "chord", "baseline", "melody", and "assembly of songs". There was a page titled "Ms. Mary 's Sheep" in the middle of the chapter of the code.


In this page, how to attach the scoring of a chord matching the melody was introduced. For example, consider the "leading sound" from the melody called AGFG in part 1 and try to use that sound. Since it is AGFG this time, it is a code of F major that uses A and F. The second part is the code of C major that uses G. Of course this is only a guide, so what code to use after all is the freedom of the composer, there is no problem choosing according to the sensitivity.


In the "Song structure" chapter, I was actually able to understand the composition of the song while listening to the songs. You can jump to the starting point of that element by clicking on the color-coded component that sticks to the bottom.


On the page "The playground" you can actually try making simple songs. In order to actually compose in The playground, I will first make a melody line.


I was looking at the code and base for a while, but since I could not think of anything, I will write the drum first. I played the melody line and beat line and placed the notes where I thought it was.


Next, I made a baseline. It is OK if you repeatedly adjust while playing here.


For the time being, I will put up a lot of 3 chords, finally write the code. Anyway finished with this.


When I tried to play it, it was not very good. However, although it is not good, it is terrible to say "Learning Music" to be able to compose in one day from a total inexperience.

A novice compiled by Learning Music - YouTube


Another editorial staff with experience of DTM does it like this. Beat is decided first ... ....


I set the bass as low as possible to hear at the speakers.


The code is changing slightly so as not to become monotonous.


I tried putting the pitch of the melody somewhat higher, so I tried putting some noise under the melody in order to fill in the difference between the chord and the tone.


It became like this movie. I can see that the impression is quite different from the previous one.

I compiled in Learning Music - YouTube


Songs created with "Learning Music" can not be saved or shared as they are, you need to import them into software called Abelton Live once. Abelton Live can be downloaded from the official website and can be tried free for 30 days. In other words, if you download it now in the middle of August you can use it during the summer vacation, so it is a composition service that is perfect for summer free study.

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