If you hop on a beat machine and start churning, you may get lucky once in a while, but as a general rule your joints are gonna be rough from lack of understanding of how to really get them to work.

Good news is, music is much like other disciplines in that doing it can and does bring skill improvement. But still, if you take extra time to get a better idea of what's happening with the sounds you're working with, that's more tools in the toolbox.

Plus, and I can tell you this as an autodidactic composer, the more you understand about music, the more enjoyable making it is.

<---Okay Jima (© Bridgetown)

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