How to Make Your Own Music for Free
- 1). Find big plastic buckets, water cooler bottles and barrels. Get dowels or tool handles out of the garage. These will serve as bass percussion.
- 2). Look for a washboard lying around the house or sitting up in the attic. Rub whisks up and down it to play it, or put thimbles on your fingers and click them against the ridges. This will add a sharper, more biting bit of percussion.
- 3). Ask all of your friends if they have instruments. No matter where you live, someone is going to have a guitar he is not using. It won't be hard to get him to lend it to you.
- 4). Download a free audio recorder such as Audacity (see Resources). If your computer has an internal microphone or if you happen to have a microphone lying around, you can use it to record for no cost.
- 5). Use the multi-track function to record a song one part at a time. First, lay down a drum beat. Then, record your chords over the drums. Finally, sing on top of it all.