Q: or did you just figure out how to write and understand music just through listening because i can only ever write music with basic chord progressions and time signatures but i'd love to be able to write some more complicated stuff. love your music !!
A: you'll want to pinpoint the origin of your desire to do 'complicated.' all the answers will be right there. for example, if you heard a piece of music by jembolayah thurstongoeld, and thought 'wow i really love this, and it sounds complicated', then you're gonna wanna go ahead and listen to that a little further, and start to see what it's all about. OR, on the other hand for example, if your desire to do 'complicated' actually came from a feeling of excitement you had by SEEING a very complicated looking piece of music on the page, then i would suggest you go through that piece and learn all the notation in it, and then get a blank page and start to put all those notational pieces together in a very complicated looking order