Music production as a hobby

I used to think that making and publishing music was as easy as uploading a youtube video. I make some sounds on the keyboard, mash them up, and the click upload. I could then publish to my favourite music players such as Youtube Music and Spotify. What I've learned these past few weeks could not be further from the truth.


So around a few weeks ago, I started to become serious in taking on making some music as a hobby. I intially looked up how to get started using reddit, finding out quickly that I needed to choose a DAW (digital audio workstation). Of course, I look up what DAW a beginner like me should use and I'm bombarded with a TON of options. I initially tried out Ableton as that seems like it was really popular. However, quickly I switched to FL Studio as I liked the interface better with the piano roll UI. 


Luckily, I still have a teeeeeny bit of music theory that I remember from my piano days so I'm not a completely terrible composer. That said, I've watched over 15 hours of just melody making and these DAW usage tutorials that I've become quite happy in my progress. I ended up making a little tune that I quite like (given my feelings right now), and I wanted to publish it to Spotify to have a artist name on there. Quickly though I realized that I can't just simply "upload" to Spotify (or any music distributor at that). I have to first go through a distributor, then finally I can get them to upload to all the music apps such as Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube Music, ect.


I finally signed up for a relatively cheap service called distrokid (not in any way sponsored) and uploaded my first song! It'll take a while to be on Spotify but looks like it's making its way slowly into itunes and some other music apps Anyways so I'm going to keep on working on this small hobby of mine, and maybe develop it into something more mature.

Till next time!

My temporary MIDI Setup


-- Update:

The song is now on spotify! My very first!

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

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