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My name is Kryssen Robinson. I'm making an animated short film for Halloween titled "Lora Vicious ". I'd like to have a theme song made for this film. http://pre14.deviantart.net/6fb2/th/pre/i/2015/272/4/3/lora_vicious_character_sheet_by_kryssenrobinson-d9befia.png http://img02.deviantart.net/2cd7/i/2015/272/0/b/vlad_vicious_by_kryssenrobinson-d9bei29.png Here is a short scene: I'd like it to be made in a similar style to this song from Plants vs Zombies. If you are interested, send me an email at: YowLifeProductions@Gmail.com Or Kryssen.Robinson@NMMediaArts.org

Hey i need a music composer for my youtube video so if you are interested plz reply.

I think it does help to atleast know certain chords so you can keep your tracks consistent. Knowing chord progressions can help as well. Say you lay a piano part down that you improvised. Well how about taking a different instrument and playing over your previous recording? If it sounds out of place that is because your notes were not kept consistent and were random. I say it does really help to atleast know the basic fundamentals which are not hard to learn if you wish to finish what you start but that also needs to come with dedication. I know how it is to start but not finish so I usually stop and start listening and studying. I read the reviews that others posted on my works over and over and over so I can pin point what it is they think could be improved. Just gotta take it one step at a time you know?

Really well done! I liked this a lot. Measures 17, 21, and 26 had really awkward clashing tones that took me out of a brilliant soundscape you had. I feel like the range of the piece could have been expanded little as well; having the piece go places as well as the harmonic structure. Once again, great work!

And as for how to start, plenty of people write by sitting at a keyboard. There's nothing wrong with that. Just take the time to carefully write down what notes you are playing as you go on a computer program like Finale, or with a pencil and paper.

You don't absolutely have to learn to read and write sheet music but it opens up whole new worlds of musical opportunity for you if you can. Think of how different your life would be if you had never learned to read and write English (or any other language). You wouldn't be able to ask questions here on this forum. Your knowledge would be limited to the size of what you could memorize. And it would be difficult to obtain new information to memorize from people in different cities or different countries because you wouldn't be able to research who you should ask about information you were interested in. You would always have to talk to a person directly, and take up their time to get them to repeat information over and over and over, until you were sure you had it memorized correctly. Being able to read and write music is very similar. It allows you to share your musical ideas with any other person in the world who can read music, talk about musical ideas in specific detail so you can improve your music, and learn any piece of music you want, without having to have someone sit down and teach it to you, or find you a recording. I generally perform maybe 1,000 pages of music every single year. And I'm not even a full-time musician. I wouldn't be able to learn anywhere near that much music if I had to memorize every note. But I don't have to memorize, I just read it. The same way I can sit down and read a novel. And I can share the music I write with people all over the world. No one would ever perform the music I write if all the performers had to memorize all their notes from a recording I made. But since they can all read sheet music, like I can, one person can find a copy of a piece I wrote, decide it looks interesting, and send a copy to everyone else in the group to read over and practice on their own. And at the concert, they don't have to have my piece memorized, they can still be performing by reading. The one quality that all the professional working musicians I know have in common, is that they can sight read sheet music, accurately, and at the proper tempo, the first time someone hands them a piece of music. The conductor of an orchestra doesn't have time to sit down with each player and teach them their part. There are too many players and too many parts and too many hours of music to learn. They all have to be able to read it on their own. That way rehearsal time is spent deciding how loud the loud bit should be, or how a tempo change will be handled... all the things that make music feel musical, instead of just teaching notes. (:

Just googling around a little, I've managed to find a few examples, although I have no idea if the music is of any quality. It is a somewhat unusual duet, so there don't seem to be any "important" pieces for it yet. I may try to write something for you, if I can manage it. http://www.jwpepper.com/5878376.item#.WHvbTRsrKUk http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/dark-passage-duet-for-alto-saxophone-and-f-horn-digital-sheet-music/19816011 Arrangements: https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=Saxophone+French+Horn+duet

Have you ever taken any voice lessons, Samurai? The material you study is opera arias and things like that, but the techniques extend to any kind of singing or speaking you do. Good diction is good diction, and good breathing is good breathing. It doesn't matter what style of music you're working in. Might be helpful for working on some of the ideas Maestrowick is talking about. (Although a lot of it is in the mixing and recording too.) (: