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Metalsonic66 posted...

I assume you must at least know the basics, like what a time signature is or what a fifth is

Yeah, I took music classes as a kid but only the really basic stuff.

90% of it I don't even use, like the sheet music format. Mostly just play it by ear. I'm probably really held back by how I have no formal education writing music.

It also really would help if I had a guy who specialized in mixing, synthesizing sounds, finding parts that don't work, adding ideas. That's probably why it takes more than one person to make a good modern song. I'm best at coming up with the over-arching structure, kind of bad at filling it in, so my songs end up taking a totally different direction than what I envisioned.

So if I want to make a song it ends up sounding kind of techno because all the soundfonts I have access to sound mostly techno.

I really want to make a heavy metal sound but I am bad at working with amp plugins.