Welcome

Hey everyone, I am Mubasser (heck, you can just look to the right) and am the creator of this very blog called SoloMusicians. We all want to make good music that people would crave for. And I was no different. I downloaded a free trial version of Fruity Loops software (version 3.0). By the way, it is now known as FLStudio and the current version at the time of writing this is 7.0. I was so confused when it started (sorry Image-Line guys). But it wasn't the software's fault. I was just plain new. A newbie.



I didn't quite understand the logic of putting those small blocks (called patterns or steps) on the interface. But as a human being (no, we ARE intelligent) I clicked on one of the boxes beside a label called Kick. The blocks lit up. A good start, I thought. Then I clicked on the "play" button and guess what? I was hearing the wonderfull boom-boom of a kick drum. I got excited! But I still couldn't make the basic drum loop (you know, the 4/4 thing?). Then it got to me. I counted the little blocks and found them to be exactly 16. Hmmm...now if I divide them by 4, I would get 4 beats out of it. So I did it and pressed the play button. VOILA! It worked.

Just below the Kick drum was another drum tool called the Hat. You know the drum part that makes the sound like "tis-tis-"? It is called hat. The kick drum continued in the background and I clicked on the hat patterns. Slowly, I made a simple "basic" drum loop.
The begining of my music making begins here.