Arrangement is fortune telling.

Only when you have a talent for composing can you have no talent for arranging music. People with a talent for composing music can learn it well as long as they study arranging music carefully.

"Write down a melody when you think of it" is an instinctive reaction. In fact, almost everyone can think of a melody, but only those who have been trained in solfeggio can write it down, or they have their own methods to write down the melody in their minds when they were young.

Then there is the melody quality I think. I've met talented people. Although they haven't studied harmony and have no ability to write down the melodies they think of, the melodies they think of casually are perfectly matched not only in time, but also with very beautiful harmony and even complicated jazz harmony. I have also met some music lovers who know how to write down the melodies they think of, but the melodies written down are terrible and not pleasant at all, often because the melodies they think of don't have a stable time signature, or because they don't have the concept of harmony in their minds, and the melodies written down are just like the random arrangement and combination of notes, so they can't construct harmony. Before studying music theory systematically, I belonged to the first kind of person.

Of course, for the above two kinds of people, there is a so-called "pop music composition" talent. For the first kind of people, it is necessary to systematically learn the methods of reading and recording music, as well as to carry out a lot of voice training; For the second kind of people, it is necessary to systematically study harmony theory and cultivate a sense of rhythm. If none of the above is available, it is basically impossible to play original music.

When a person is familiar with how to write a beautiful melody, then the skeleton of the song comes out. The first step in arranging music is to know how to match harmony with melody. Of course, some people think that this step should be included in the composition. No matter how it is classified, the sense of harmony of music, like the sense of melody, is an indispensable condition for composing and arranging music. Some people like to write a chord progression first, and then create a melody based on the chord progression (people who play in bands generally like to do this because chord progression is a common language among musicians); Some people like to create a melody first and then add harmony (creative singers generally like to do this because singing is the center of the song). In any case, melody and harmony must be highly integrated. It is impossible to create a melody without considering harmony at all, and it is impossible to write harmony without considering melody at all.

With melody and harmony, a song basically comes out, and music can be played at this time. Of course, some people skip this step and arrange it directly in the software. Still like that, band performers tend to play music first, and then make detailed arrangements through band rehearsal, while those who do it by themselves like to get it directly into the software for arrangement. I belong to the first category. Although I don't play with bands very much, I feel that with the score, I can give my music to the band to play live at any time, not just an mp3 file. Of course, the cost of playing a band in China is still relatively high. After all, there aren't so many musicians, so it's good to play on the computer if you can.

The most important thing in arrangement is the cooperation between musical instruments. If you want to write a good melody, you only need to hum, and if you want to write a good harmony, it is enough to play the piano or guitar. But if you want to make a wonderful arrangement, you must have as high an understanding of as many instruments as possible. To know how to play drums, how to play bass and what texture piano and guitar usually use, these are the so-called four basic pieces. Mastering the use of the four major pieces, it is no longer a problem to make a decent arrangement, or if there is a band, just record it casually. On a higher level, we should learn how to write strings, how to write wind music, how to use synthesizer timbre and so on, as well as various styles of arrangement. The arrangement style of Chinese music scene is relatively simple. If you want to make it colorful, you should listen to more music from Europe, America and Japan. Listen more and practice more, and gradually you will find that each work is a little better than the last one, and you have learned a little new skills. Arranging music is different from composing music, which depends on a large proportion of inspiration. Arranging is a solid basic skill, and practice makes perfect. In many cases, it is even a physical activity. Sitting in front of the computer is more than ten hours.

If you feel that you have the talent to create pop music, you might as well develop and cultivate it as a hobby, not only to cultivate sentiment but also to install artifacts (but why am I still single > _<! If you are interested in arranging music, you can find many tutorials online. It's a very interesting thing, but it's still quite common compared with hobbies such as photography. In this line of work, you are gifted, learning too fast and too simple, but you have no talent, and you haven't figured it out after studying for several years. If you find that you can't learn, forget it. Don't be the kind of person who took 5DIII on this trip!

I sincerely hope that so many talented musicians in China will not bury themselves, do not seek to become professional musicians, and at least cultivate a hobby that will affect their lives. Who doesn't want to have their own original music?

From Zhihu. Com, author id: immortal