Composing Digital Music For Dummies
Yes, you can turn those wonderful melodies and smokin’ grooves in your head into stunning digital music! And you do not have to be a musical genius or a laptop or computer geek to do it! Composing Digital Music For Dummies shows you every thing you want to know to compose excellent tunes utilizing the hottest digital tools.
This friendly, plain-English guide explains all of the digital music basics, which includes how to work with the newest hardware and software, use templates from the companion CD-ROM to make a fast start off, build your initial tune, and save it in various formats. You’ll also find out how to add instruments to your score, set tempos and keys, create chord symbols and show fretboards, add lyrics to your tune, and considerably far more. Discover how to:
- Write and arrange digital music
- Decide what — if any — equipment you want
- Create your own ringtones and mp3s
- Compose with a MIDI controller, or a mouse
- Function with notation software program
- Use keyboard shortcuts
- Publish your creations on the Web
- Develop your own tune from scratch
- Extract parts from your score for every instrument
The companion CD-Rom also includes a demo of Sebelius 5, the most common music notation software, as well as audio files for all music examples in the book. With this step-by-step guide and your laptop or computer, you’ll have almost everything you require to start off writing, arranging, and publishing your own digital music — instantly!
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary supplies are not included as component of eBook file.
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The Book Teaches You How To Run A Software Program Not How To Compose Music,
If you intend to buy this book to learn how to use Sibelius software as an aid to composing any kind of music, this is your book. The use of Sibelius software is what 90 percent of the book is devoted to. Sibelius software is expensive and its manuals are superior to Composing Digital Music For Dummies but the Dummies book does simplify the use of Sibelius software.
If your intention is to learn how to use digital instruments or software programs to lay down a drum track, to get a bedrock of bass accompaniment, to layer background music, to use your digital instrument to generate arpeggios, to learn which timbres work together, and finally how to compose melody and harmony, this is the wrong book for you. I can’t point you to an alternative but Backbeat and Berklee songwriting titles cover some of this turf.
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|music composition not creation,
This book was really not what I expected at all after reading the description. I was expecting it to be a book about creating digital music. You know… starting from scratch or with loops or samples or whatnot and creating something that your friends and family can appreciate. Something along those lines. But that’s not what this book is at all. I guess “composing” should be taken in the classical sense, since the book focuses mainly on using a particular piece of software to produce sheet music. There are sections on understanding and writing sheet music, and then a lot of discussion on using that particular piece of software to accomplish it.
Quite frankly, it seems a little unlikely to me that someone would be a novice to music and want to pick up a book like this to suddenly learn how to compose sheet music (without being able to play it), but whatever floats your boat. If that’s what you are looking for, this might be a good book for ya. But if you are looking for more of a hands-on guide to actually creating digital music (composing, as in creating or putting together the actual music) then this is sure to disappoint.
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|This guy is on the take from Sibelius,
I bought this thinking it was going to provide some shortcuts for my DAW and software. I own a lot of the software recommended in this book, but more than half of it is dedicated to Sibelius, a music notation software, mainly for orchestra or large bands, or vocal ensembles. I read this book in one sitting. I’m wondering how much in kickbacks the author receives for sucking up to Sibelius…
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