Learning to write music faster!

Claude Ruelle · 2016-08-04T19:33:39

Hi everyone, Lately I've been watching a couple of masterclasses by composer Mike Verta - he keeps saying that writing music fast is a skill that is very important to have, because it saves you from getting bored with your ideas and ending up by overwriting or throwing your pieces away - It also keeps you in the creative inertia that you have when you write an initial idea, and it saves time when you're on short deadlines. Finally it forces you to develop your other musical skills, because you can only rely on them when you have to go fast. Anyway, I've decided to develop this skill by doing speed writing exercises. I'll start by writing very short pieces (30s or so) and then probably switch to longer ones as I get more experienced with this. This the first piece I wrote, I've written it mainly for strings - it just has a touch of brass and harp on the last chord : https://soundcloud.com/claude-ruelle/speed-writing-250516 The writing process took me like 2 min, but then I had to spend some time orchestrating, rearranging the parts and performing it in my DAW. So it was a total of ~15min for 30s of music - I think it would have taken me more time with a bigger orchestration. I'll continue those exercises until I get better and faster in my writing :) I would like to know what you guys think about this approach. Happy composing, Claude.

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Started by Claude_Ruelle June 23, 2016 12:30 PM

10 comments, last by Celas Thienf 8 years, 5 months ago

Martin_H

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July 14, 2016 09:34 PM

I hope a double post is ok, considering that I actually made some music ^^.

http://www.keinebilder.de/temp/kontakt-guitar-v7-001.mp3

Took me about an hour, and I already had the template for the instruments ready. Naturally there's lots of room for improvement and tomorrow I might hate it already, but it really felt like a helpful excercise. I think I'll try this again and I'm looking forward to hear others contribute as well!