After watching the film "Amadeus" when I was just 13 years old, I was ignited inside with a burning passion to compose music. But I didn't know too much about how to go about writing music. I had viola lessons for a few years in grammar school, but never any piano lessons. Where to begin?
My mom and dad used to keep 2 large collections of encyclopedias in our house. From there, I went to the articles for "music" and saw diagrams for the keyboard, what note names corresponded for each key, and were those keys appeared on the grand staff. From there, I created little tunes and was very proud when I had my first notes recorded on staff paper I created by drawing the lines with a ruler.
There are several resources well beyond the dusty encyclopedias I used when I was a kid. The internet is an amazing wealth of valuable information. Not only is it a wealth of technical information, but of sound files as well. It is just as important to listen to a lot of music as it is to write your own. But whether or not you can write notes, you can still create your music by tape recording your voice. Don't worry whether or not you deem yourself a "great singer." It matters not. The main thing is to express youself with freedom, and not be obscured by technicalities while learning the basics.
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