im 15

and love your music and electro/techno/dance music.

what do you need to create such good music and how do you do it?

obviously its must be VERY difficult.

i wanna do something with music when i grow up as i am very musical now.

but where do you learn about all the stuff??

can you get people who can teach you i dont know where to start! please dont think i am a stupid kid i just wanna learn how to make such music

drugs

booze and Synthi AKS

Have sex with a girl and make sweet sweet music.

very constructive...

i remember when i yearned to make music like the chemical brothers and all i could ever think of was how the fuck does it work? how do they do it? i MUST figure this out, so i can do it too. i want to make someone feel the way i feel right now from hearing this music. BUT HOWWWWWWWWWWW!?!?!?!?!

all i can suggest as a start is looking into software like:

Ableton Live

FL Studio

and maybe as a REAL easy introduction:

Acid Pro

read the help files, look up tutorials on youtube. read and read and practice with the tools until you understand what you are doing.

eventually you will realise you understand things you could never comprehend, and a yearning to learn about something else will take over. and on and on, but i remember how hard it was to initiate how to begin to even comprehend how to START making electronic music at such a young age.

i hope this helps a little, if not sorry.

Acid Pro is really not hard to learn but good for quick music projects! I'm actually using it now!

Good luck Alex!

yeah but it was so tempting :)

Ah, good--thanks Sir Badgelot for actually providing a helpful response.

@Alex--good luck in trying to transform your enthusiasm and motivation from your inspiration of the Chems' music into something of your own!! Thanks for your post, and definitely look into the software that Sir Badgelot suggested to get you started. It takes work and dedication to make great electronic music, so if you're willing you can definitely make something amazing for people to listen to!

::cheers::

yeh nice one hayden! now how the fuck does one perform stuff live?! lol.

im 15 as well, and have been making electronic for about 2 years. I started with GarageBand, haha. Pretty much the simplest music software out there. After I got bored with that, i started learning about subtractive synthesis (from Designer Voodoo here on the forum). This is done with what is the main instrument in an electronic artist's studio, the synthesizer. I suggest you get Logic Express, which is basically a professional version of GarageBand. I also suggest you get a Korg EA-1. It's an easy, affordable synth that is perfect for synth newbs. And like Hayden said, just find tutorials, read manuals, learn about what you have, and how to use it.

Hey TJ! Long time no see!

Put up another mix will ya :)

Garageband is great in its simplest terms but Logic is where its at. As I mention before, Acid is pretty straight forward. I'm making a mix CD with some choice edits with it.

All you need is an imagination and some tracks!

that actually reminds me of the first time I saw the brothers live. Wondering how the fuck all this blinking gear was working. I spent hours watching the live parts on the DVD trying to understand something (and did the same with Daft Punk later). Good times... What a noob I was.

experiment with different bits of kit, learn new instruments, read books, watch films, get inspired.

Make the time, don't find the time.

you will never sound the same as the chemical brothers so don't try. just be yourself and write with passion.

i have logic studio, full version. and electronic keyboard.

the manual is over 1000 pages so i watch videos instead. but hey the chemical brothers started off somewhere they didnt get born with like synthesizers glued to their asses did they?!

probably the other way around - synths born with chems attached...

hmmm

i'll get me coat.

Gecko is absolutely right about it. Be inspired but don't try to copy things by force. Find your own way and put in your own personality, your own touch. It makes things more authentic than those artist that are always sounding like someone else. Being yourself doesn't mean you shouldn't figuring out what the bros are doing of course and how they're doing their certain sound. Use it instead as a starting point from where you want to start your journey across the audio universe. Go one step beyond.

I also think it's very important to be distinct from others. It should be YOU that's playing.

I had a funny experience serveral days ago when I was entering a local media store and a certain background music was being played. I didn't know the track or its title but I recognized the sound itself and had a feeling of who it could be. When I was looking for the CD that was on my feelings approved to be right: it was Deadmau5.

..or you can go to Prochem's School of Electronica

Get a Degree in just 2 yrs!

I started with Logic pro back in 2003. Now using Logic Studio to this day. I also use Ableton for live performances and Battery is a nice program too. Just studying the daylights out of these softwares will have you making music in no time. But as others have said, be unique. You shouldn't have the mindset to go create chemical brothers songs, because thats what the chemical brothers do. Also, lately i've been seeing a trend in incorporating real instrumentation into electronic music. Hmm, example........the slap bass in Justice's "Phantom pt 1". I'm just throwing ideas out there.

On a side note, I also use xovox and vjamm for vjing.

Oh yea, and U of E is always taking in new students! (lol literally, I teach bass/drums/music programming and djing at a local music store).

(u of e = university of electronica)

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That's the age i got into making music (unless you could slave-labor recorder concert from when I was 8)! For the first few years, I didn't even make music as much as I took apart sounds (mainly chems) and mixed them together. I'd recommend starting off with some easy software (Acid, Garageband, etc) to get a feel for music, make sure you use the tutorials on those programs (save you time), buy a piano/keyboard and learn to play it and the chords (really easy actually), and get a job since music stuff ain't cheap. Once you get to that point, you'll probably know where to go from there.

I wouldn't be too impatient, the more you study music/synths/software before you write music, the easier it will come when you do go to the board with ideas ready. Most importantly, listen to lots of music to get a variety! The more influences you take in, the more original your music will sound. I for one worked at a record store when I was 18, which helped me more with music than anything really.

Here are a few good/fun websites to learn stuff from:

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/

http://createdigitalmusic.com/

http://remixmag.com/

i ask myself how do they make music everyday...

its like out-of-space music or something

btw is pro tools or logic pro (which chems use) easy to use?

i mean coz im using fl studio and before i used acid