Beginner

[StapledPuppet]

Hello everyone. I am a beginner audio artist, and I have got 4 songs, but they all suck and get really bad scores... So I came here to ask on advice, for example, what program to use ( I am using FL Studio 8, but I find it very hard to use ), and how to make good songs lol. So thanks in advance!

---StapledPuppet---

[Ch1ll]

Ok good to have you here :) FL Studio is in my opinion the most user friendly program around, so I guess you should best stick with that:) How to make good songs? Depends on what genre you are making. Each genre has it's own staples that are very common within that genre, like in trance a kick beat that goes every 4 steps, you know, the boom boom boom boom effect:D As for tutorials, you can take a look at AcePincter's YouTube Channel, Warbeats.com and on Warbeats YouTube Channel. If you want to, you can add me on msn: [e-mail] . Hope I helped you.

-Alex\/

[Ambimetric]

Making good music comes with practise.
And don't worry too much about the scores you get on NG. They're often irrelevant to the song.

[StapledPuppet]

Ahh thanks everyone for the advice. I much appreciate it all...

[SMA]

Your songs don't suck; in fact, you have the beginnings of some really great grooves there. Don't beat yourself up because you haven't written some masterpiece of music in your first few tries. It takes time to learn, and even then there is always more to learn. You clearly have a good sense of rhythm, so now play with modes and scales, play with harmony and dissonance to see how notes interact, play with different styles of music to see how other people put a song together.

Play with it; study the craft; give yourself time to grow as a songwriter; tell your inner critic to get bent if it doesn't have anything helpful to say to you. Ignore the scores, and concentrate on the work.

[No1r]

Hi!
There's anything else to say :)
Just practice, practice and again again..as the guys said.
I use Fruity Loops nearly by 6 years now and i find it suitable for a lot of different genres.
Reason is another good product too..

The problem is not the software itself but the sound quality. All these programs (Fruity and Reason) can be semi-professional, if you work well :)