Portraying a compassionate feeling

[Foha]

I wish I could make music though. There's so many feelings I'd love to turn into melodies.

You can!

If you ever want to learn, I can share my screen and show you how with a computer.

I can't even play piano; I'm not classically trained.

But with computers I can tweak it to sound the way I imagined with enough patience

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it

Oh yes yes yes, I would very much like to learn!
Is it difficult? Do you make the song with a single program or so you use a couple?

I found it most difficult to be okay with being "directionless" when writing a song.

Instead of wanting it to sound a particular way, I instead yearn for a particular emotion or experience I want to share.

Then it becomes an issue of letting a motif come to you... I usually just let what I have written so far play in the background and fool around on a keyboard (even a laptop keyboard works) until I have an idea of what fits the emotion or experience best.

It mostly takes patience more than anything

If you're free in a couple hours I'd love to show you the process!

I find writing music to be very cathartic... It's probably similar to meditation because I always end up having emotions compete with one another in the composition sometimes, and I will have to make a choice that allows both to shine. Sometimes this involves giving them their own time to exist, other times it means one or both have to make compromises.

It's very interesting to me.


*edit*: I used two programs to make this: Ableton and Audacity. FL Studio (Short for FruityLoops) is a great program that can easily substitute Ableton. Ableton has a lot of bells and whistles, and luxurious sound packs that aren't necessary to get your feet wet in music composition.

Audacity I use to edit sounds. I'm certain there's better ways to do this, but for this song I just copy-pasted the song to make it repeat. I use Audacity for audio effects sometimes, too, if I can't figure out how to do it yet in Ableton.

If you'd like, I can share my screen on google hangouts or something to show you what it's like!