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The best way to do this is to learn guitar or piano and learn an accompaniment instrument. Then you'll be able to use instrumental accompaniment. And for those who know how to play an instrument, you can also use the arrangement software to accompany the instrument (if you don't know the instrument or music theory, you won't use the software at all).

Also, people who know the guitar and have a good sense of musicality can also compose. Many guitar enthusiasts at Bug Guitar Network compose music by feeling after learning the guitar.

If you want to teach yourself how to arrange and compose, the first thing you need to learn is music theory, that is, ** theory. In fact, it is to learn the knowledge of notation, pitch, rhythm, tonality, etc., which is the basis for learning composition.

Then you need to learn sight-singing ear training, that is, learn to sing music and listen to sounds, and have the concept of pitch. At this point, you can use the characteristics of pitch and rhythm to write the melody of a song. And once you learn to write melodies for the lyrics, the rest of the work is to arrange the music.

The first thing to do is to match the song with harmony, that is, in addition to the melody part, you should also add other parts to the melody, which is more full and good-sounding; Then you need to use the commonly used instruments in the popular ** in the host software on the computer to start writing the prelude, main song section, chorus section, interlude, main song 2, chorus 2, and outro according to the melody.

In general, it should be that each paragraph is different, but it is also a more complete whole. In fact, composition and arrangement are both disciplines that contain a lot of knowledge, and if you study by yourself, the learning cycle is long and it is easy to take detours.

It is recommended that if you want to learn arrangement, find a teacher to lead or find a reliable institution specializing in arranging education, so that you can learn more professionally and systematically, and avoid many detours.

Nowadays, you can compose music if you don't know anything, but you can't arrange music, you must understand music theory, harmony, song style, orchestration, polyphony, style, among which harmony orchestration style is very important for arrangement, and it is also important for ear training to practice, you can play with the tape and listen to how the masters arrange!

In addition, for example, harmony, you don't understand, how do you match your melody with chords, don't understand the orchestration, don't say the kind of orchestral music, the four major pieces of the band don't say that you can play, but you have to know how to play, that is, keyboards, guitars, bass, jazz drums The professional is basically recorded with real instruments, **style will directly affect your chords and the choice of instruments! In addition, it is important to write harmony textures for musical instruments, and the connection will use the boring traditional and acoustic connection methods!

In addition, it belongs to the arrangement and production that is, at least one arrangement software must be understood, such as nuendo cubase pro tools logic fruit, etc., as well as commonly used soft sound sources (bfd add ezdruns for drums, the grand 2 for piano, realguitar for guitar, in fact, there are many more, you can choose to use them yourself, some think this is good, that is not good) These are all to learn, Recording and mixing are the things that come after the arrangement, and the mixing is for your ears! When I first started studying, I had a computer! You can use the sound card on board at the beginning, if you have more money, you can buy a professional sound card directly, anyway, you will have to add professional equipment in the future!

There is another problem to pay attention to, that is, compatibility, some of the arranging software needs to be on the Mac, some need to be on the PC, and some versions depend on your operating system, such as if it is a win7 system 64-bit, then nuendo3 cubase3 These versions can not be installed, but you can press nuendo4 cubase5 these, if it is xp, it is generally OK, so if you want to play these, it is recommended that you use the xp system!

Good luck ha!

Basic music theory must be learned, there is no way to do this. After all, you're learning to compose, not just humming melody and composing. So start with **? Starting with the most basic music theory, sometimes it can be boring, but that's how everyone comes through.

Let's learn a musical instrument first. Listen to more songs. Know what style of song to go with what instrument. Then the chords will be harmonized, and the sense of musicality will be cultivated...

First of all, learn a texture instrument, such as a piano or guitar, considering that the cost of the piano is too pitiful, you can consider learning the guitar. And when learning guitar, you must pay attention to learning chords and rhythmic patterns, and you can put it down with your finger solo or something, because your goal in learning guitar is to lay the foundation for arranging theories.

Through the study of guitar chords, you will quickly understand the music theory of chorus, and you will have time to read through the basic music theory, and your foundation must be solid, so that you will be very relaxed when you learn to arrange music later.

When you learn the chords of the guitar almost, and the music theory is almost understood, you can boldly spend money to go to the recording studio to find a master to teach you, if your ability to accept it is fast enough, you can get started with arranging music for a month, but if you want to reach a higher level, it will take a lot of tape and creation, arranging is an experiential job, and the quality of what an old arranger who has arranged for 10 years is definitely different from the quality of the person who has arranged music for a year or two.

A harmonic texture instrument for guitar or keyboard.

Then accumulate harmony music theory.

Get the software: A sequencer, a comprehensive sound source, just fine.

Then pick up about 10 pieces of arrangement, and you're ready to go.

Piano or guitar. Basic Music Theory.

Learn music theory and know the basic knowledge of music theory.

Nuendo, Sonar, and Cubase are all hosts, i.e., production platforms, on which you can record audio, MIDI, and focus on loops and electronic music production.

Hypersonic is a sound source, and it should be considered a softwave meter, which is a comprehensive nature, but the sound quality is not very good.

Cool Edit is a recording software for amateur players.

Gig is a giga sample file.

VST is an executable file for a general-purpose virtual instrument.

I was born using sonar and also using nuendo and cubase

Sonar is better than Nuendo and Cubase in terms of sound quality, and these three are better than Cool Edit

Sonar and Nuendo can be said to be both on top and bottom, and both have large adherents, and each has its own advantages.

Both MIDI and audio convenience are very powerful.

More professional software is Pro Tools, which is currently the standard software used in the global recording industry.

It has an unbeatable advantage in audio, and all large foreign recording studios use it.

However, the use of Pro Tools must be accompanied by corresponding hardware, so the cost is relatively high.

In summary, it is recommended that you choose one from sonar or nuendo.

Try cubase, composing and arranging all the later stages.

MIDI workstations: Cubase, Sonar, FL Studio, Live, Logic (Apple), etc. Audio Workstation:

Nuendo, Samplitude, Pro Tools (Apple), etc. Staff typesetting software: finale, overtrure, sibelius, etc.

What musical instruments do you bring?? How can any software be that good? ...The timbre has to be scraped by yourself to the electric donkey and BT.

Easy to use, the first choice is Sonar (the latest version is X1).

The only thing that can meet your requirements is cubase

cubase

It has become mainstream, and the current highest version is.

With musical instruments and easy to operate only Apple computer's garageband, the interface is simple and beautiful, simple operation, Chinese Simplified Chinese version does not need to be sinicized, comes with a variety of tones and loops, to meet your conditions no matter how professional there is also a powerful logic pro

Forget about cubase, believe me you won't need to understand it in a short period of time.

First of all, you have to be clear about what kind of effect you want to achieve, there are a lot of composing software nowadays. Including very domestic software.

1) If you look at it from a professional point of view, you should use the software of the ** workstation. For example, Cubase and Nuendo in Germany and Sonar in the United States are recommended for use. These are all very powerful software.

It is the first choice of ** workers. If you don't have a MIDI keyboard, that's okay, they support staves, you can use the mouse to point, but it's harder;

2) If you're just doing dance music, i.e. use more loops. It's better to use FL Studio. But this does not support staves, and it is piled up with ** blocks. You'll be dazzled. It's hard to use without a keyboard;

3) If you have a mediocre knowledge of music theory and the harmony is so-so, with band in a box, it can compose music automatically. But the effect is not amateurish. Pretty good.

Other software, like domestic, composer master, cutemidi, a whole bunch of them, it's all fun to play.

Composition and arrangement can be done using the ** arranging software Studio One.

Getting started with Studio One is easy, first we get to know the basics of simple work and how to use them. These basic tools are commonly used when working with audio, so let's show you how to use the audio toolbar quickly and correctly.

The first thing to know is the toolbar of Studio One, which is located at the top of the Song Project Actions window, and the tools you use every day can be found in this shortcut toolbar.

1. Cursor and Range Tools.

The Cursor Tool is usually used in combination with the Range Tool, when using this Combination Tool, the Range Tool is displayed in the upper part of the track, and the Cursor Tool is used in the lower half of the track, and the audio in the track can be dragged and dropped.

When the user drags and drops audio into another track, a new track is created, the old track remains, but the audio is moved to the new track.

2. Split and erase tools.

The Split tool has the ability to split audio, that is, to split the audio into multiple audios at a specified location.

After clicking the split tool and then clicking the split position, the audio will be split, at this time, switch to the cursor tool and drag the audio away, you can clearly see the split audio.

The Erase tool can delete a specified part of the audio, and after selecting the part you want to delete, click the Erase tool, where the audio will be deleted, leaving a gap.

3. Mute and listening tools.

Fourth, the corresponding shortcut keys of the toolbar.

Each tool in the toolbar has a corresponding shortcut key, starting with the cursor tool from 1 to 8, and you can directly switch between tools by tapping the shortcut key.

In addition, use the "1" on your keyboard to position other tools while using the cursor and range tools, and hold down the Ctrl key to briefly switch between other tools.

First, learn a musical instrument, preferably a keyboard or guitar, don't learn the piano, directly learn the popular keyboard, this is an operation technology for you in the future, these two introductory instruments are not mastered, it is difficult to create songs, the keyboard is also for your future computer arrangement to lay a technical foundation for the operation of the operation, it is best to find a musician to accompany the local night to learn, a teacher with practical experience, you have to find one, this will take you two years.

Second, learn music theory, chord knowledge, chord arrangement, scale knowledge, tonal scale knowledge, and various styles at the same time, so find a teacher to bring you to the beginning of this piece, or go to station b to watch the tutorial honestly, many tutorials on the Internet are very practical, such as Guan Dawei's chord ** class, basically from shallow to deep learning can be learned. If you don't know music theory, you can't compose and arrange music.

Third, learn an arrangement software, such as cubase or fruit, host software, you need a computer with good performance, about 8,000 yuan, the CPU is fast enough, the memory is large enough, the hard disk is big enough, and then you have to learn to install and use a variety of audio sources, this can go to buy a hard disk that has installed many audio sources, this is the basis of your equipment, computer, MIDI keyboard, sound card, monitor headphones or monitor speakers, this configuration is an entry arrangement workstation.

Fourth, learn to listen to all kinds of styles, all kinds of styles to listen, expand your vision, rock folk reggae jazz hip hop classical post-shake gold book shirt do not limit the style, listen more, and then distinguish their rhythm, rhythm, the instrument used to achieve this style, the sound of the state has no tone, etc., this is a long-term process.

Fifth, learn some songwriting courses, lyric writing, lyric framework, this has a lot of tutorials at station b for you to see, Berkeley**College**creation** is worth watching, I remember that an old doctor is talking about how to write songs, that** is particularly reliable.

Of course, if you have the conditions, it will be better to apply for a school, such as a professional college, self-study is very hard, and you have to pay three to five years to enter the industry, if you are mentally prepared, then the above four things to start doing!