One thing I like most in my life is music. I listen to a lot of music and I listen to it often. I’ve heard pretty much every genre. Not only do I love listening to music, I love making music. I have played drums and keyboard, and even saxophone, but my instrument of choice is definitely the guitar. I play the guitar every day, sometimes for hours on end. I make sure its tuned perfectly before I play. Usually I run through the scales first, but some days I just jump right into some jammy-jam. Some of the things I mess around with turn out to be instrumentals only. Problem is I don’t have a band and need to spend more time on lyrics.

Aside from guitar, when I get the chance, I get on my computer to make music with a cool music making program called Magix Music Maker 11. I only have the demo, but its still alot of fun and has some cool tools for mixing phat beats. You can get up to version 14 from download.com.




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Some other software that I've been using lately is the freeware Audacity, which allows you to mix tracks easily. There are lots of free plug-in effects for Audacity; I have a pack of 90 effects. If you know of cool music software, especially freeware, drop a comment about it. :]




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I recently stumbled upon this cool site for making music called OneMusic Virtual Studio. They have many cool tools to make music. They have several cool, easy-to-use multi-track sequencers, with drums, bass, fx, synth, and melody. They have multiple music styles like beat, garage, indie, and hip-hop that you can load. You can even save and send your music creations.



There’s a mixer with instructions to teach you how to mix music. They have a bank of over 1000 samples of music and sounds you can use.



There’s even a game, Escapades, that takes you through the life of someone in the music biz. You can play as an artist, agent, PR person, or manager.

I have had a lot of fun fooling around with them. The site provides links to other music sites and both mixing and songwriting games to help with music or to just entertain you. I personally love listening to and making music.

This site is the best music making site I’ve played on yet, so go check it out. And if you know of other music making sites leave me a comment with the link so I can check them out.

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