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[Avalach21]

fazz said:
That was a really good advice. I haven't really tried to write music, just some lyrics. I have close to zero knowledge on music theory, neither my friend (the only other stable member on our 'project'). She only sings and has some lyrics too. Do you think it's important to have knowledge on musical theory? So far we only play covers.

 Lyrics are always a great start when writing music. It's good to have a centeral theme to have your music focus on, and lyrics will give you the basis to work on top of.  A lot of my earliest compositions, I would write out lyrics first, and would then write out music to accompany them.

 

 Covers are a great way to become comfortable playing with other musicians.  It gives you some experience playing together and is definantly worthwhile.  I don't know how far along you are on whatever instrument you play, but learning to play other musicians songs definantly helped me, esspecially earlier on.  It introduces you to new techniques and ideas that you can then implement into your own writing.

 

I personally took AP music theory in highschool, I have played various instruments since 4th grade, and I took a couple years of guitar lessons, so in that sense I am classically trained.  I would not say it has been completely worthless, but you can definantly go without knowledge in music theory.  The other guitarist, the one on the right, has never taken a music class or a guitar lesson in his life.  Knowledge of music theory can definantly help, but by no means is it necessary. 

 

I am a strong believer that a good musician is not determined by how fast his fingers are, how many notes he can jam into a short period of time, or anything of that sort.  It's about what you do with what you've got.  Some of the musicians I admire most aren't what I would consider the most "talented."  You just have to write something unique, honest, and true.  If your friend can only sing, try some different things with her.  There's a lot of cool things you can do with your voice.  What instrument do you play?  Don't feel like you need to be trained or that you haven't got enough lessons to write anything worthwhile.  It's about your mindset and your vision.  Taking the right approach to music, you can definantly write something beautiful.