I play several instruments, I read music, but writing for some reason eludes me (Talentwise). everyone's against me.
Writing mostly is just straight up copying with small changes. It might be interesting to learn some basic theory, the first few episodes of this podcast (musicstudent101.com) helped me.
I see you have never studied Bach's Canons and Fugues.
On the contrary sir. Bach was a complete genius and I have studied his work. Most impressive to me is how prolific he was... over 1000 known compositions plus many hundreds more lost forever.
Still though... Every once in a while we get a JS Bach, then for the next 100 years everyone copies off of him. Then we get a Beethoven and everyone does that for 100 years. Then we get a Chopin, etc... ergo composition is mostly plagiarism.
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