All the rules, and music education won't help you composing music.
First, you have to have a IDEA, all the rest in music comes exactly then when you need it, not a second earlier.
This is completely false.
You can have a great idea, and if you know nothing, be utterly incapable of working it out and presenting it well.
O.K. - let's put it the other way around:
One learned all about music, composition, orchestration etc., but has no IDEA, doesn't hear any music withhin himself !
For example, you don't need to know what range a Waldhorn has, before you don't write anything for it, It's more then early enough when you look that up just then when you need it. This is efficient working! I "teached composition", this itself is a a oxymoron. You can't learn to be a composer, either you have a force inside yourself who makes you one, or not. All studies in the world can't help you when you don't have any idea, driving force you can't resist. I realized that most student don't have any ideas, but think they become composers just simply being in my classes, thru studies, that's a waste of my time.
IDEA FIRST !
.... anything else will follow, comes to you when you need it, automatically!!! You don't need to know a age 19 what you will be knowing at age 47, everything just comes to you at the right time, quasi the second you need it. Of course it helps, and speeds the process up, when you know where the knowledge is stored.
do you understand now what i wanna say?
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