Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Myriad_Rocker]

In my head I can craft a really awesome guitar riff....fillls, melody...it's awesome....but I can't transfer it well! What do I have to do to get my ideas to come through my fingers! Ray Charles was great at it!

[Garry Sharp]

Just practice playing. Whatever your instrument is - including voice - the better your grasp of it the easier it is to turn ideas into notes.

[andydeedpoll]

spend some time practising intevals and things... im still at school at the moment, and as part of my A level exams i have to listen to a two part melody and write down either the top part, the bottom part, or both parts, and the only thing were told is the first note and perhaps, if the melodys four bars long, the first note of the second bar... oh yeah, and the key.

its the type of thing you can practise with a friend, and every time you do it you'll get better... and its amazing how easy it becomes to work out the notes of a riff or melody or whatever.

it also might be helpful to know that when we think musically we often automatically jump to notes like the fourth and fifth and relative minors of the key (the minor 6th of the key.) and a lot of songs and riffs are built up around these chords.

i hope thats helped,

Andy

[d(-_-)b-Phones]

And until you have the ability a good idea is to get a recorder, and hum out the ideas with your mouth, i have done this beofre on an 8track i would make all the insruments with my mouth, like bass and guitar, and drums, then sing, sounds insane in a mix.

either way it keeps your ideas down, because its hard to write down the sound of somthing.

[Rokket]

Originally Posted by d(-_-)b-Phones

And until you have the ability a good idea is to get a recorder, and hum out the ideas with your mouth, i have done this beofre on an 8track i would make all the insruments with my mouth, like bass and guitar, and drums, then sing, sounds insane in a mix.

either way it keeps your ideas down, because its hard to write down the sound of somthing.

And thus, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was born, and drove us nuts after that.


It's a good suggestion though, because you can sit down with your instrument after the fact and work on the chords and what-not to fill it in later....

[hixmix]

Originally Posted by Myriad_Rocker

In my head I can craft a really awesome guitar riff....fillls, melody...it's awesome....but I can't transfer it well!

Damn!!!!! I hear you man. In my life I've managed to get a couple of good ones out but not even 10% as many as the ones I've dreamed and imagined.

Can someone please invent a tape recorder for the brain?

Ever see the movie "Brainstorm"?

[Rokket]

Originally Posted by hixmix

Damn!!!!! I hear you man. In my life I've managed to get a couple of good ones out but not even 10% as many as the ones I've dreamed and imagined.

Can someone please invent a tape recorder for the brain?

Ever see the movie "Brainstorm"?

That's some scary shit, recording your dreams.


Plus it would get a lot of married men into some deep divorce battles!!!!

[hixmix]

Originally Posted by Rokket

That's some scary shit, recording your dreams.


Plus it would get a lot of married men into some deep divorce battles!!!!

Yes. There are hoards of salivating lawyers