Making music - how did you get started?

i was the band geek in fifth grade....i started with trumpet then when i was in the ninth grade i was introduced to the guitar....i joined a band out of high school and thats where i learned my studio skills.....thats pretty much the jest of it....cant wait to see other people's comments on this forum

Started out as soon as I could walk more or less...listening to my brother's records (yes...this is pre-CD days ;-) I wanted to play drums as soon as I knew what they were, how you used them and what sound they made.....took a while before I got a chance to use a real drumkit instead of "My First Drumkit (That Doesn't Make My Parents Go Insane)" but I used to hang out a lot in local squats where local bands practice and perform, met a few drummers that didn't mind me tagging along and showing me some basic techniques and the rest is history.
Also started playing bass-guitar when I could finally afford one and got introduced to acid-techno at squat parties with soundsystems coming over from the UK as well as illegal raves in the Amsterdam and Rotterdam dock areas.
I was sold instantly by the frenetic percussion and relentless bass-lines...combining the two parts of music I love the most in the most extreme way, so here I am now producing pretty hardhitting off-the-wall acid/hardtek influenced by all types of music I like, punk, reggae, ska, hardcore, hip-hop, jungle, DnB, you name it.
Some of which will be uploaded to this site pretty soon, so you all know WTF I'm talking about in my endless longwinding forum posts ;-)
No matter what type of music or artist, If it's got beats and basslines that make something go "click" in my head, I like it, listen to it and use it in some form or another, either through mere inspiration or by litterally lifting samples, loops, melodies, whatever.

"I blow minds for a living..." (Jello Biafra, 1991)
...or at least try to (me, just now)

Well, since middle school, I've always played some part in music production. Whether a song for my band class, or just jamming out with friends. It wasn't until just about a year ago that I actually started full song production. My friend, Alex told me about this awesome program,for song production, called FL Studio. I decided to download the demo and give it a shot. That same day I created a complex sounding short 15 second clip. I let my Dad listen to it, so I could get some feedback. When his face lit up, and he flashed a smile, I knew I accomplished something good. Since that day, I've been working on music nonstop. Still trying to get better.

Started playing violin and saxophone when I was 7.

i use to freestyle early in my teens and made a few songs wit some of my friends when we were 15 or 16. after the years went by i kept freestylin but didn't make any songs. then after high school i realized i was really attracted to the beats of the songs i listened to and a lil more than two years ago i started messin wit cakewalk music creator and ejay, then when i started school i came across fl studio 6 demo and da rest is history.

I first got started in playing music at age 4... my sister had got a Yamaha PSR-8... she never used it, so I did... and taught myself how to play with one of those "Teach yourself the Piano" books. "Whole World In His Hands" was the first song I ever played. But I didn't start writing my own material until age 12, when my dad worked with this guy that did all this midi composition on an old 486, and my pops, who knew I loved to do music and all that, grabbed a copy of this MIDI composition and arrangement software, called Midisoft, from his coworker. I just started placing notes on a staff. I played the bassoon back then, so I was pretty well versed in the bass clef, but as for treble... I was clueless. That being the case, I just started putting stuff on the staff until it sounded right. Usually like 4 bars of educated guesses, and then I'd adjust them by ear. By the time I was 14, I had a damn good grasp of composition, able to play something on my Yamaha PSR-8, (one of the original PSRs I think...) and then place the notes on the staff.... very old school, with a digital twist. I was making cheezy tracks from industrial to techno and some trip-hop here and there. Remixed some more popular songs, and some video game songs, from time to time, using existing midi files I had D/Led off my blazing fast 24k MODEM on free internet provided by my local public library... ALL TEXT BASED! I shit you not! Had to use hyper terminal to connect. Remixed them all by cutting, chopping, pitch shifting redoing the drums.... Simple editing with minimal original material. It wasn't till I was 16 when I got my Yamaha PSR-540, that I really started making songs. Not so cheezy, but still very rough. While working with that, my buddy, and soon to be production mentor, Jim Pepper, AKA Jungle Jim, gave me a copy of Rebirth. Some of you have heard my electronic tracks on here... that was my first real taste of track production. Jim taught me how to program my drums, make melodies and alter my synths. He's the one who showed me how to arrange things into a song. How to go back and filter my drums and tweak my synths on the fly. He taught me the art of DnB and with that he essentially taught me hip-hop.... but it was Jim's best friend, and one of my best friends as well, Cory, who got my into hip-hop... But that's another story all together. Without Jim... I would still be in the stone age. When I got Rebirth and learned how to use it, that's when I really got my feet firm to the ground in music.
Jim also gave me a copy of reason 1.0... three days after it came out... but I could never figure out how to use it back then... and my computer's specs wee barely enough to run it. After 2.0 came out... I would not have another computer able to run Reason until '06, when I built the one I'm using this very moment.

Be good... or just good at it
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