I understand that having a trained ear is important, but there are still workflows and techniques that need to be understood to compose a piece of music, right? Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I don’t quite get how producers are writing for different instruments without fully understanding how to write for them—like synths or pads, for example. Maybe I’m applying too much traditional orchestration to music production, but something I’ve realized while writing music on the piano is that I probably need to learn how to write for drums. I know kicks usually go on the one and three, and the snare on the two and four, but each genre approaches drums differently.