What do you need to learn to write a song? How to write? Not the lyrics, but the music!

Quote two articles, I hope they are useful to you. I want to tell some friends who write songs that many friends come to me to exchange their composing experience online. In order to avoid repeated typing, I will focus on the following points: actually, writing songs, including orchestration, is a natural thing. If you are still asking me how to write, I think you have no rudiment at all, and you are incapable of mastering this kind of music. Be sure to let go of the idea of writing music, learn more basic things, learn to a certain extent, accumulate a certain amount, and then naturally know what to do, including evaluating your composition ability. All the friends who started asking how to write music are friends who have little or no music foundation after I know more about it. I don't want to fly, that's what I want to say. What you need is not how to write music, but how to understand what music is all about first. Besides, what's wrong with writing songs? Many people can often hum some songs blindly even if they don't know music theory (my dad is like this, hehe), but they can't record what they are humming, and they can't step into the threshold of music. People who know how to compose music are different. They can record songs that they or others hum, such as Wang, so some people become composers and musicians. In fact, whether you have the ability to compose music depends on whether you have the ability to record. How to train this notation ability? First of all, you have to know the score, sing accurately, and the details of the score are very clear. Then practice your ears, including distinguishing intervals and rhythms. All kinds of complex intervals and rhythms should be conditioned to be heard by one ear. It's a bit like practicing English, to the extent of being like a mother tongue. Of course, the more complicated it is, the more difficult it is to identify, but those who can distinguish between complex intervals and rhythms can certainly write things with complex intervals and rhythms. Therefore, if you want to write a good song, you must persevere and improve your ears forever. To a certain extent, when you hear music, it is not the sound but the music score that is reflected in your mind. Furthermore, if you can not only recognize intervals and rhythms, but also become sensitive to the chords of music. You will gradually find that the melody of songs is based on harmony. Except that China traditional music has a background of melody before harmony (that is, music before orchestration), the melody of modern music is based on strict harmony structure. The more sensitive you are to harmony, the more difficult it is to write a good song, which requires strong basic skills. The more sensitive you are to harmony, the more you will find that domestic music lacks the means to use chords, and you can hear what is a good song and what is a bad song. Really good songs are nothing more than distancing themselves from bad songs in melody, and even the melody is not as fancy as bad songs. You will know what a truly meaningful melody means. For friends who have experience in writing songs, it is necessary to discuss the fun of writing songs. If you can do something, others will do it, even everyone will do it, then you are not interested in doing it. If only you can do it, you will feel very different. The same is true of writing songs. If you think of a melody, but the audience can also think of it, it is very uncharacteristic, or there is no standard, and it is not difficult. Why is there a lot of rubbish in pop music nowadays? That is, when you hear the beginning, you can predict what sound he will sing next, and even if you can think of such a melody, then this song must be unpleasant. Nowadays, songs are all familiar styles and tunes. Listening to them too much will make people feel bored, because they are too ordinary and have no freshness. When writing songs, we should emphasize the fun of composing music. We should write something that can catch the audience's ears and make them feel different. This is your own personality problem. Only when you come up with such a thing will others not think so. If your music can still make others feel good, it means that your level is really good. This is the fun of writing songs. You should highlight your personality. On the other hand, many people don't talk about various composing skills, but like to emphasize that "music is emotional and doesn't have to follow any rules". What they mean is to abandon the rigorous structure of composition and go out of their own personal world. According to this understanding, anyone can play music, regardless of the structural system that binds composition. Can you still enjoy yourself? I will give you a guitar today, and it is not impossible for you to release an album tomorrow. But how many people will admit your music? To put it bluntly, I scribble, you scribble and everyone denies each other. Is this interesting? So personally, I am very disgusted with this anti-traditional approach. I actually want to escape the rules of music. Therefore, from the perspective of the fun of writing songs, I hope that all friends who write songs can write their own melodies under rational constraints, which is fun. Finally, the maintenance of the level of writing songs is discussed. Everyone may have noticed that domestic creative singers are short-lived, either because a song is famous or because an album is brilliant, and few singers can maintain their creative level. Such as Zheng Jun, Tang Dynasty and so on. Most people have two opinions: 1 because they had a hard life when their first album was released and had a profound experience. After becoming famous, the improvement of living standards has caused changes in creative ideas, and many material factors have affected them, so they are still mediocre in the future. Because the first album is the accumulation of their inspiration for many years. After becoming famous, inspiration will almost dry up. Without inspiration, there will be no good songs. This "material life theory" and "inspiration theory" are not completely unreasonable, but I think it is definitely not the main reason. Many foreign bands became famous in the 1970s. Up to now, there are still good albums and singles emerging. Are their compositions unaffected by material life and exhaustion of inspiration? Someone asked Li Ao, "Does writing need inspiration?" He asked, "Do prostitutes need sexual desire?" This has actually explained the problem. Creation cannot be maintained by inspiration, but by basic skills and accumulation. It is very tiring to write songs simply by inspiration. You should not only think of a good beginning by inspiration, but also think of a good transition by inspiration, and then you should write a good climax by inspiration. Other songs are like this. Can this go on? Real song creation is developed with the help of a motive, which is inspiration, and the rest is developed by the composer's skills and understanding of music creation. Those who emphasize inspiration and ignore composition skills will sooner or later walk into a dead end of resource exhaustion. The short artistic life of domestic creative singers is caused by insufficient basic skills and accumulation. For those foreign masters, what they hand-picked casually will make us feel unfathomable. Why? The foundation is different! For them, inspiration is nothing special, as long as they find the direction of writing, they can play it out, and everything is done according to their composition style, as simple as that. So, if you want to keep your level of writing songs, or want to go further, it's easy. You should lay a solid foundation and accumulate more. Learning, learning and then learning is the ultimate way to solve this problem. It is useless to lock yourself in the recording studio for inspiration.