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because noone is PAYING me to write music, I naturally enjoy a sense of freedom; with the computer as my main composing tool I think its vastly different from trying to "write a song".
I mean, I envision a songwrtiter sitting there, trying to simultaneously strum chords on a guitar, whilst soming up with lyrics that "fit" in... a guitar or piano/keyboard is there for a note melody, all being done at the same time...
or in a different order (music first, words second, or vice versa) and this seems impossible to me (I am no songwriter, lol)
I will, true... make a note melody with a piano instrument typically, or the
acoustic guitar instrument... then try to "flesh it out" into movements, because I make music that leans more towards classical.
This means I have no chance of making the next pop classic, but, I can make a brief, intense, short track... or if I dont hit a "wall", it might develop into something longer, more involved.
SO... you're on this forum, you obviously have a computer. A little poking around and some software you likely already have... forget about trying to make lyrics and chords to pen a "song" for a bit, if the creative juices arent there at the moment for that...
... enjoy some freedom of making an instrumental progressive/classical thing... if its brief and intense, then its a short piece... if it seems to hold interest and you dont hit a wall, think about making it into a multi-movement piece...
perhaps somewhere along the line, because you will be hearing your note melodies hundreds or thousands of times as you work on it, clicking with your mouse, a verbal "hook" might creep in when your not looking for it... mebbe you go back over it with an electric guitar, or your lead guitarist does, and you get something very "pink floyd"-ian out of it... or "old queen"-like
the lyrics/vocals you come up with at intermittent parts might be suffiently "vague" you might end up with a really odd artistic piece...
or, *shrugs* you have a new "power tool" from the experience to drop in some lines with "classical creds" to them as background music on future projects. (I am thinking of how deep purple used cello lines and stuff very dramatically against rock guitar songs in perfect stranger album?)
I mean, if your having a bad no-muse patch to "songwriting", abandon it temporarily, and explore a whole new FIELD of music, mayhap? When I was little, I was trying to put somethign together, and my mom told me to take 15 minute break and watch cartoons, later n, it would "put itself together".
When I finally DID, I came back an hour later, and, true to her word... "the thing put itself together like magic"
SO, playing around with non-lyrical clasical type stuff... would be, here anyways, the musical equivalent of watching cartoons for an hour...
Heck, I sure wish I could write popular chord/lyrics stuff, but, I cant seem to... so, the "cartoon hour" with one guy on a computer with a bunch of software kind of became the whole point of the exercise, somewhere along the line.
*shrugs* I figure when I finally "really get somewhere" with it, SOMEone will figure out a way to make use of me in a project of some kind, I figure...
just get out of what youre into, and get into somethgin totally different on the computer with music... it should really re-energize you, and its not like it isnt USEful to get into that aspect of music, right?
