My Story
Back in 2010, I was what you might call a "Flash Gamer." Sure, I had a PlayStation, but I never played it. I would go from site to site, and I would play whatever random game I could find. On this particular day, I played a game called "Notessimo" on onemorelevel.com. I thought it was really cool, I was putting guitars all over the place until I created absolute monsters. At the time, I had called them songs.
But I needed more, I Google searched for an updated version of the game. I was brought to the notessimo website, the exclusive host of Notessimo 2.0. I was giddy, I immediately went to the composer and did the same thing I did on the first version of the game. Randomly placing things all over the screen until it made another monster.
But there was a share feature. So I shared my crap, and I would go around the site telling everyone how much better my randomly placed notes were than everyone else's months of dedication to one song. I even picked virtual fights with users who would later be featured. (Note: I still have never had a song featured.) My ego was through the roof, nobody was willing to waste their time on correcting me, so I just kept doing it.
There was one particular instance where I went a bit too far. There was a song called "On The Moon" and there was a user named hellion that said "I'VE NOTICED SOMETHING!! the last measure's tempo is 69!" I thought that was so incredibly obvious, so I made fun of him. (Not knowing what 69 meant) I replied back with "Hey, congrats enstein , but thomas jefferson already figurd that out, and so did newton"
I kept going, and the next day I couldn't log on, so I made a new acccount thinking that I typed my password wrong in the signup. But I was acctually banned. (I can log in to that account perfectly fine now.)
Your probably thinking those last three sections were completly useless, and you would be half right. What does matter out of that is that I was quickly hated, and I had to earn acceptance from the others.
But lets get back to music, about a year later, I learned how the game worked. You were placing instruments onto sheet music and thats how you created songs. So over time I learned patterns that sounded good, I found instruments that sounded better, and I just kept building my knowledge untill I could make something where I could put up a valid argument if were still a D-Bag. But I started listening to good songs on the interwebs and I quickly realized that I needed a better quality, fast.
I can't quite remember how, but after another year (so, now its halfway into 2012) I found my way to FL Studio, I took the hour to download and install the demo, and I was quickly hooked. This was a professional software that I just got without paying a dime! I fooled around with 3xOSC and made some loops, that sounded terrible, but still better quality than notessimo. I began making fairly legitimate songs with the program, and I started posting them to soundcloud about september of 2012. Every once in a while, I would get a like, and I thought to myself "People like this, I should keep getting better"
As November 2012 rolled around, I was faced with a problem. If I want to keep getting better, I need to be able to work on a song more than once. With FL Demo, you could save, but not reopen a file. So that year for christmas, I asked for FL Studio Fruity Edition, and I got it.
2013 got me super exited, more and more people were liking what I was doing, and I was getting better and better because of that. There was a point about halfway through 2013 where I was being limited by the synths I could use or at least, how I could internally edit them. So I saved up for producer edition and bought it in august. My self confidence skyrocketed. I began making things that I was happy with. One of those songs would be "No Limits." Which, for it's simplicity, I could make an argument that it is the best song I have ever made.
This brings us to the present. I am on top of my game, and I am looking to get some professional releases this year on some labels. I am starting small, and as I grow a fan base, I am planning on climbing the ladder to Monstercat (My dream label) in the future.
If I can get to where I really want to be, I may have to consider not going to college. If I can get this ball rolling, and have to spend my time doing collegiate work, I may not be able to get it rolling again. But there is ALWAYS the opportunity to go to college if the ball happens to stop.