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Something very beneficial to all composers and makers of music has been going on as of late. The combination of the internet and decreasing costs of producing various forms of digital media has given rise to whole new areas of demand for music. This is obviously a good thing for the people who make it, but it does not necessarily mean that they will be able to find work and make a living by their art all of the sudden.

New art forms like web videos, visual music, video comics, flash animations, and so on all need music to complete their effects. Composers and producers should be able to step in and fill this void, but there are a few things working against them along with all of these benefits.

Something not talked about often enough in regards to composing music, or producing any type of art for that matter, is the importance of leisure time. To be sure, the actual craft of writing music requires detailed and determined study, and you will not be able to compose great music without that effort, but art also requires more ambiguous things like feeling and inspiration. This is where leisure time comes in.

The best composers in the world will still need some type of feeling to strike them in order to produce their great work. What makes art significant is that it contains something more than the pure physical nature of the piece itself; there are human thoughts and feelings conveyed in it (if it is art).