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Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004
^ most of the so called greats were informally trained. If you notice, I said 'official' education.
And actually while on the subject it doesnt really matter what kind of training you have because its not your schooling that defines what is good, but the people that actually buy it. It could be total crap and by all the educational standers not acceptable, but if people buy it and like it, it makes it good.
It really is all about popularity.
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Nops... you said everything great was done "by accident"... What is far, far different from "done by skilled people who learned by themselves", also, it's not like a lot of them actually learned by themselves, most of them had an older artist as a mentor. Knowledgment and skill don't come from thin air.
You also need to know the basics to be able to produce the popular, it's not like producing a popular piece of work isn't an effort by itself... actually, it's the main pilar of composing and producing pop music. And you would be surprised to know how much pop top producers are actually classically trained.
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Originally Posted by microphone
If there are proven methods, it is wise to study them. Randomly pressing keys on a piano until a nice sound comes out is definitely not the way to go about learning musical composition. Those who have good knowledge don't waste their time doing that. All the grimy work was taken care of by the musicians of the far past who have since passed their knowledge down to us  |
Pretty much this.