@Tapestoppa I do remember your entry, as well as some other pieces! Wow that was a long time ago. Right around my accident so I'm shocked that I do, actually.
I think you'll find that your compositional skills should mature in time, and the production along with it. I'm still growing and changing a decade on (I started messing with DAWs in like 05), and that's with on and off studying the craft! I regret one thing only, that I never really took those studies seriously and consistently, even when I went to school for music. Like, I would study theory and then get bored and branch off, whether that was into a different aspect of theory, or completely unrelated concepts, or even off topic subjects. I didn't spend enough time putting things into practice.
These days I don't focus so much on wild compositions and chords like I did in the olden days. I go more for simplicity and mix/master, but if there's anything you take away from me, note that a good mix starts at the production stage. A crummy sound palette that doesn't mesh together, especially in electronic music where bass and drums are your bread and butter, will never be fixed with eqs and compressors or almost any number of fx. Sometimes I have done nothing to a client's master but switched out the 808 sample and compressed, for an extreme example. You get me?
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You will kick ass. I had no idea you were in high school! Making me feel old. And less talented lol. It took me a minute to get any good at this music stuff, to say the least.
Merry Christmas!
Tapestoppa (Updated )
Thank you. I started in 8th grade but never had music training nor any previous skills with synthesizers and mixers, any instrument really. Literally a blank slate. I think you commented on one of them from 2020 when I entered that NGUAC(?) comp of that year when I went under the aakase moniker. The only thing that I had that could equate to some skill was synesthesia! I didn't really get "good" per-se 2, almost 3 years after I started. Good thing I started then than later on hahaha!