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I try to create songs using Garageband or FLStudio, but the music doesn't seem a lot natural or the awesome ones which you folks tend to create. I just make these as a part time hobby, I haven't learnt anything or read anything, I just tend to go with the flow. I was wondering if someone can guide me on anything I could improve like a book, article or any great advice would be great. Here is the latest song I composed. The process I used to create is 1. Create a basic bassline. 2. Play around with some notes to get a decent arpeggio. 3. Add lower notes of a synthetic string to make it sound more serious. 4. Any fillers I use claps and hat's or something of that sort. Most of the times I tend to make a music based on these ideas. I wonder if anyone has any great pointers on their process of creating a musical piece. And I really struggle to complete a song, my ideas just sustain only in the initial phase, I can't find something to add to complete it. Thanks 🙂

at least this time I was prepared to have my mind blown again

This is a composition from time ago. The piano is not used in classic flamenco, but in the past decades, it was incorporated in styles such as jazz-flamenco and other mixes. Also, some composers have recorded flamenco for piano solo. I am from the land of Flamenco, and I like it. But I'm not an expert at all, there are many many different "palos" (styles) very difficult and with peculiar harmonies. This suite has 11 short parts and I thought about making it because I realized that along the Mediterranean Sea, from Spain to the Caucasian countries, the traditional scales were similar. Most of them have second augmented intervals, for example. So I used many scales-modes from this part or the world, and others I thought could fit: Gypsy I and Gypsi II, Hungarian mayor and Hungarian minor, Jewish scale and Romanian scale, Harmonic-Ionian and Harmonic-Eolian scales, double harmonic scale, Lydian-Phrygian scale, X scale (invented), Harmonic-Lydian scale, Javanese scale, Neapolitan major and Enigmatic scales, Lydian-Harmonic scale, Lydian-Eolian and locrian, and Phrygian dominant.

Ever heard of Steely Dan? Not that your music sounds similar, but they had a cool way of writing lyrics that were dark or sad underneath the surface of upbeat groovy music. I like that clash, nice work! Post more of your work mate 😄

Great music dude.