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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
The most difficult is composing music for the masses.
Anyone can learn to sing or play an instrument (or multiple instruments for that matter).
Not many can write music, whether it's film, television, jingles, pop songs, love songs, sad song, angry songs, etc. that can touch millions upon millions of people.
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It's interesting that being unique in terms of composition will tend to get you nowhere. There's obviously a formula, much like Alpo and Friskies have a formula of horse meat to bullshit.
If 20% of free thinkers and 5% of mouth breathers enjoy your music you have nothing. These days, the idea is to captivate 80-90% of the mouth breathing population. (Makes sense)
Being able to compose, play an instrument or sing are all useless without any marketable "product".
To answer the question. Composition is the soul of music. Without that ability you're merely a cog in some machine.
Playing an instrument, preferably piano or guitar, would be second on the list since it teaches the building blocks of composition.
They're the chicken and the egg. The instrument can often cause the motivation for composition.