I want to write music, but I can not!

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

You can't write music, I can't write lyrics. Let's get together and make pop music.

[DrGonzo]

Note: I have not listened to any of your tracks. Just going by these lines:

I can not realize the idea from my head [...] My drums are shit, bass lines are shit

You need to work on your production skills.

This is an extremely good advice. EDM is a genre almost entirely focused on the production. Pick of classic EDM melodies on a piano and you will feel the same. Boring. Repetitive. Uninteresting. But with stacking and in-your-face production what seemed to be boring now seems cool. EDM is 99 percent packaging and fluff and all of that can be learned. You don't need much musical talent to be an EDM artist. You need to work hard on the production part. That's where the major talent lies.

Join Groove3/MacProVideo/Sonic Academy. Work on a few courses hard for a few months until you get what they are doing. Then when you understood what they are trying to achieve (there are many different approaches) decide which workflow is the best for you and stick with that.

I can't see why someone can't learn this in a few months time. It's not rocket-science.

/C

[hivkorn]

play with stuff you already know , the rest will come after...

[mgw38]

I'm working a lot with design students and to be perfectly honest, understanding that your own stuff sucks is the first big achievement in becoming really good. The rest is really practice. A lot of it. There is this famous research that determined that people who are considered experts in their field have an average of 10,000 hours of practice. So, unless you are really, really talented, 5 years of making music is not enough to get you there. Just keep doing it and don't pressure yourself. This does not happen over night.

[UltimateOutsider]

EnemyFox, you will not get better if you don't finish tracks. Even if you don't like what you've produced, you'll be able to listen to what you created, identify what you don't like about it, and make improvements in your future efforts, one step at a time.

Ira Glass summarized this very concisely:

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

[recursive one]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aNR ... XFpWlptblk
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aNR ... EltNzNEakk
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aNR ... FBFNHozWkU

Are these yours?

I'm not exactly a fan of this genre but I think these demos sound pretty good production-wise.

[xoxos]

Can you play any instruments?

Oh yes, I graduated from music school ... I can play the piano and accordion.

play a bicycle pump through a wah pedal into a guitar amp in a tiled bathroom. run that through a gate add kick.

[rod_zero]

Slow down, the problem is that you are not enjoying the trip. You want to get to the end result without walking the long walk.

And you have to finish things, if you don't finish you don't have any progress to meassure your self against.

[AnX]

I find, with most ppl who try to get into music making, if all they want to do is sound like 'this artist' they tend to fail. Sounding like some famous act is not easy when you are a total beginner, and its really not a good reason to make music.

You should, imo, make music because you love it and you have ideas you want to express. That doesnt mean you wont or cant sound like other acts, thats impossible, its just not your goal when you start.

[hivkorn]

I find, with most ppl who try to get into music making, if all they want to do is sound like 'this artist' they tend to fail. Sounding like some famous act is not easy when you are a total beginner, and its really not a good reason to make music.

You should, imo, make music because you love it and you have ideas you want to express. That doesnt mean you wont or cant sound like other acts, thats impossible, its just not your goal when you start.

+1
If you try to be the artist you like so you will fail.
You can learn to duplicate, but you can't learn to create.

[Jace-BeOS]

I can play the piano and accordion.

Maybe your issue is that you just shouldn't be trying to make edm

Rather than forcing yourself into a genre that you clearly feel is not working out for you, perhaps try to play to your strengths

I second this. As an alternative, use these instruments you're trained on to make the styles of music you've been trained around, while adding some EDM qualities where they might interestingly fit (but don't force it).

Instead of trying to make a specific genre of music, why not use the formal education you've had, and tweak the results to suit your preferred tastes? You might accidentally create a new genre.

It might also simply be that you aren't comfortable with the tools you are using or not understanding what you're hearing when you seek to replicate something you enjoy. Five years is not a huge amount of time to be expecting yourself to create exactly what's in your head.

Stick with it and keep making stuff, or back off a while so you don't learn to hate what you love.

[Jace-BeOS]

EnemyFox, you will not get better if you don't finish tracks. Even if you don't like what you've produced, you'll be able to listen to what you created, identify what you don't like about it, and make improvements in your future efforts, one step at a time.

Ira Glass summarized this very concisely:

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

This is great advice.

[Jace-BeOS]

I find, with most ppl who try to get into music making, if all they want to do is sound like 'this artist' they tend to fail. Sounding like some famous act is not easy when you are a total beginner, and its really not a good reason to make music.

You should, imo, make music because you love it and you have ideas you want to express. That doesnt mean you wont or cant sound like other acts, thats impossible, its just not your goal when you start.

This is also great advice.

[murnau]

Life is so hard and unfair. Why all the people want to write music cannot? I don't get it.

[nickamandote]

Life is so hard and unfair. Why all the people want to write music cannot? I don't get it.

I get it.
When you tell them they need to learn music theory (and this will take some time to master) they say it's crap and nobody needs that today - you can do it by ear