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Here's my submission. http://www.youngcomposers.com/music/2824/farewell-july-competition-submission/

Austenite, I love your Adriana Suite. Put up your Symphonies or email them to me. I would love to listen!

There are lots of ways to learn music, and all the aspects, of course the most direct is playing experience, taking courses.. If you're working on your own, a good thing would be do to some covers or write something similar that conveys what you are trying to experience. On numerous occasions, i have taken chords from other songs, and written new songs. Listen to one song, learn the melody and then adapt it to your song, (making the appropriate changes). This seems like a great site, (I'm new here). I belong to a couple of other sites, and often learn from comments I get, or what other people are uploading. Keep challenging yourself. Make it a point to learn the basics, you are going to have to.. I was mostly self taught (many years). I took some Berklee on Line music courses in arranging (which are great but expensive). Many of the techniques I subconsciously learnt in years of playing, but didn't know why it worked. I really wished I had overcome my arrogance as a young man, that I wanted to be self taught. I would have saved so much time, had I gone to music college. But the point was I wasn't ready for it. But also make time to have fun, spend some time, without a goal, just to have play. Truth is man learns a lot when he plays, whether music, or any other activity. 5 years back for the first time, I got serious about scoring the music. I use Logic Pro.. The scoring section of logic is b*****ch to learn, but the beauty, you can write, edit, play realtime with your hardware, Virtual instruments, etc. I downloaded a lot of scores and studied them. I started scoring out my own pieces. It became much easier to see sections that needed help. Now you are using your eyes as well as your ears to make music.. I've found now, I can write or edit parts, just from the score without playing the keyboard. You'll find the method that works best for you. I have a part the job at a club, I basically spend a lot of the night listening to music, estimating the chords, (don't have perfect pitch, but gotten pretty good with relative pitch). I created alternate bass, melody lines to the songs, as fun. I practice improvising scales of the chords that are used in the song. And you know it begins to rub off. Sometimes I create a riff by playing it.. Other times, I sing a part, and then learn what I sang.