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So let me tell you how I got started. The first music I "wrote" was using noteworthy composer when I was, what, 16-17? I didn't know how to read sheet music so I basically just groped around to how the program worked and managed to write stuff. It's all absolute nonsense, but hey I was trying! When I was 19 I actually began playing piano and then actually had some real lessons, but 90% of my time went to actually analyzing music I liked now that I could actually read music. I had 0 music training before that and though I liked music I only listened to game music (lol.) It's one of those things, I was "composing" as soon as I got a hold of a means to actually do it. I eventually did end up moving to Europe to study music (cuz where I was it was actually impossible) and got a master's degree in composition, but that's only cuz at the start I didn't give a s.h.i.t. and kept pushing on despite not having the tools nor the knowledge. In fact, I never really understood music theory (the North/South American type,) until I was 22! Before then I mostly wrote stuff by analysis and copying the stuff I saw others do. Turns out that was actually much more meaningful in the long run than learning theory "from a book." The system that I eventually learned was Hugo Riemann's Funktionstheorie analysis model which, in my opinion, is the best thing ever. Even after all these years, the other systems seem real awkward to me in comparison. Oh btw why post this in this subforum??? This is not OFF TOPIC! Can someone move this to composer HQ?