I'm terrible at music but I won't give up! So, what steps did you take for your music to BANGHGGGGG let me know of them secrets

if u like doing covers: do covers of music u rly like.
analyze what you do when you cover the separate tracks etc, it helps with understanding how the bangness is done for it.

there's more obv, but to me this was a very important thing to do for my own musical development

thankxsss!! i never had done covers before I will now

Other than what kleeder said, having a grasp of music theory also helps. A good book is "Music Theory for Computer Musicians", which is accessible for beginners.

I know music theory so that part is ok!

the most important part is practice. a whole lot of it. you've gotta make a whole lot of quote-unquote "bad" art before you start making quote-unquote "good" art. (bad and good being obviously subjective here but mostly with respect to how you perceive your own work)

seconding that transcribing/covering/learning some tunes you really love will help you understand their construction and apply that knowledge to your music

There's no general method for making music (which is good; music would have been much more boring if there were). Instead, each musician has their own bag of tricks which they apply according to need.

Build up your bag of tricks by experimenting. Have separate sessions where you're just messing around with a synth until you get a cool preset which you then save. Write short melodic phrases and chord progressions and then analyze them. Alternately, read up on various techniques from music theory and sound design and try to implement them. Also, lift some ideas from music you like.

When it’s time to actually write a song, the bag of tricks will make the process much more streamlined. You can simply implement ideas you have already thought of previously. It's especially useful if you're under a time constraint, like during an XHB.

don't be afraid of using stuff you enjoy, like if there's a song with a cool chord progression, you can absolutely just take it and make your own song with it.

my other tip is to think about form and how you structure your pieces. whats their arc? do they go up until they hit a climax? how often do sections repeat? answering these kind of questions can be really helpful when going thru the composing process.

2 5 1 transposed in lotta places or something idk x3