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Music Production in a Digital Era - A Doni Music Guide to making Music on your Computer

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What better way to introduce this book than to let you read its introuduction?

“Many people think that making music is something that is out of the question for them. People commonly have the preconceived notion that in order to make professional sounding music, you must be a professionally trained musician/producer and have access to expensive recording equipment. In fact, this was what I thought to myself every time the idea of making music popped into my head. After a while, making music was changing from something I wanted to do and becoming something I needed to do. I knew I could make music if I had the right tools! I thought there had to be some resources I could make use of to create something musical. Well, after many hundreds of hours of searching, testing, tweaking, twisting, and crafting, I have finally made it to the spot where I wanted to be: creating professional quality music to express all the artistic ideas I had bursting out of my head. Through my research and tinkering, I figured out that you DO NOT need a full-scale studio to make things happen and you DO NOT need absurd amounts of money either.

But as you can guess, the path I took to this point in my career was not a smooth one. In fact, if I knew what I am about to share with you in this book 5 years ago, I can say with absolute confidence that I would be far beyond where I am now! Think about it, if somebody hands you the knowledge you need to get over certain limitations, then you will get past those limitations much more easily than if you had to figure things out for yourself. This is what I had to do. How did I find the motivation? I’m glad you asked.

From a very early age, I turned to music for entertainment and encouragement. Growing up in the 90’s put me in a position to absorb many of the great bands coming out of the grunge and alternative rock scenes at the time. I would always tune into radio stations and television shows to find a great and heavy stream of sweet noise flowing out of each peripheral. This was a truly great time for music. I thought that it would never stop. But it did.

Slowly the consistent stream of great music was being dammed by the emergence of a steady flow of cookie cutter mainstream pop music. Ok, this music had always been around, but before, there was at least a balance. It didn’t take long before the entire music scene was overwhelmed with plastic pop music; and the alternative rock scene which I had loved for so long became nothing but a distant memory… sniff…

The sources I had traditionally gone to for music were no longer delivering what I needed, and for a music lover such as I, this was unacceptable. I had to turn to other sources. It was the year 2000, and lucky for me technology was changing the playing field completely. A little computer program called Napster was making the Internet the newest and easiest resource to tap into for music. Many people will say that Napster was the beginning of the end for music. I would argue that it was truly the beginning of the beginning for music.

Before Napster, or any other music sharing (and soon after, file sharing), there were only a few different sources for music. There were the obvious ones, like Television and Radio, which traditionally could only bring economically viable music to the masses. Then there were music scenes that grew in pockets around the world, but these were only accessible to people in proximity to those scenes and only to those who were in ‘the know’. The Internet and Naspter paved the way for a new online music scene - an online scene where people were not limited in their ability to connect with different genres of music. It was in this time that I began to realize that there was more music than the one scene that I had been a part of since I began listening to music. I found many different genres easily and I was able to listen to a ton of different tracks by a ton of different musicians. This is when I began thinking about joining this online scene. Over time, it was becoming more and more viable to make music and sell it online. The obvious players like Itunes come to mind, as well as the several online music stores popping up all over the web like. Now you don’t have to play in a thousand stinky bars before you gain an audience with a record exec. In fact, now you don’t even NEED the record exec! Now, an artist can publish their work online and reach far more people than ever before. With all of the tools spawning across the web, it is increasingly easy to monetize your artistic creations. Since this opportunity is abound, it just makes sense to follow your passion and learn how to craft majestic beats! The Internet has brought this book to you and it will also bring you many of the tools you will need to be successful. You’ve already taken the first step and got this book. Now take the next step and do what you always wanted…”

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