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Last Active 03-01-14 11:44 pm
Joined 09-06-12
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| Creativity
Just a few things I've been thinking about lately, and I thought would be interesting to discuss with any musicians here (of any level) who write or at least attempt to write their own music. First half is daytime music, second half is nighttime music. | | 1 |  | The Tallest Man on Earth
The Wild Hunt
What gets your creative juices flowing? Some people say unhappiness makes for the best art. Others tend to work best when contented, in comfortable conditions. When do you find you make music that you like the most when you go back and listen to it? | | 2 |  | Vennart
The Demon Joke
Do you write 'intentionally?' As in, do you sit down with the specific intention of writing music? Do you whistle random melodies throughout the day and decide to jot them down? Do you just sit with your chosen instrument and piss about until something you like comes out? Lots of people seem to write in very different ways. It's interesting to consider whether one is 'more effective' than another. | | 3 |  | Lyle Lovett
Pontiac
Do you find certain styles come more naturally than others? For example, I listen to plenty of heavy, metal-oriented music, but I am incapable of producing it myself. Do you fight this for the sake of expanding your musical palette or just stay within what comes naturally? | | 4 |  | Major Parkinson
Twilight Cinema
Are you ever satisfied with your music? I certainly never am. "I wish it was more complicated." "I wish it was simpler." "I wish it was louder." "I wish it wasn't so damn loud." "I wish it was less miserable." "I wish it was happier." "I wish it was catchier." "Fuck that melody is annoying." | | 5 |  | P.O.S.
We Don't Even Live Here
Do you work well with others? I find having people not just to play your music but to add to it and have some control over it often works to your advantage in the long run. It's nice to hear something in a song you wrote that doesn't sound so damn "you." | | 6 |  | Trophy Scars
Holy Vacants
I think writing music presents so many insecurities because it is often a lot more of a true reflection of yourself than you can ever be comfortable with. Like waking up in the morning and seeing yourself in the mirror for the first time. You can tidy yourself up throughout the day, but next morning when you wake up that face is still there, that true representation of yourself; just as you can bury your music under piles of different influences and alterations, but when it comes down to it, you write what you write. | |
apokolypz
06.30.15 | I often sit down when I'm bored or relaxed and write poetry or lyrics/short stories. My friends have told me I'm very good and I scored pretty high in a contest I entered at the beginning of the year. I really want to try and get into music when I get into college as I think I'd be a good lyricist if I were in a band or creating my own music. Only problem is I don't really have the voice haha. It's not technically good, but if I were alone by myself I do have a style I'd like to try and incorporate into the future. My influences if I were to just make music by myself would probably be kind in the folk genre, but I'd also put in some lo-fi and psychedelic elements. A lot of my lyrics and stories are witty and sarcastic so I think that'd be a good contrast with the upbeat feeling I get when I play guitar. Man I have so many ambitions and dreams of doing music but I really can't get started until I start college and get some recording advice from friends and musicians. | KerfuffleinaHussle
06.30.15 | I am no expert on voice (a boring baritenor myself), but I think voice lessons may be a good option...I know how it sounds, and I know a lot of musicians (particularly professional singers who can't sing very well) think they are "above it," but knowing how to sing and project properly can't hurt. Also I love sarcastic lyrics (Lyle Lovett, who features on this list, does loads of snide-ass songs). Also it's never too early to start recording a few ideas onto your phone or whatever, just so you don't forget them. Nobody else has to hear them, so why not? | apokolypz
06.30.15 | Very true I could jot down ideas on my phone. I think I'll do that they next time I'm alone and my strings aren't broken haha. Yeah my voice is pretty much a baritone I believe with a very silly falsetto. From what I've heard of myself on recording, it sounds like jim morrison if he were tone deaf. But I was researching vocal techniques and recording, and what I really love it manipulating the singing in recording. Not auto-tune, but like reverb on the vocals or I read that Julian Casablancas' (who's voice is a big influence on how i sing) sang through an amp of somesort for an effect on Is This it. I think it'd be really cool with the retro sound I'd go for. | bakkermaarten007
06.30.15 | You need to be extremely depressed but functioning. | L4titudes
06.30.15 | I find I am most creative when I am not thinking about being creative. | NorthernSkylark
06.30.15 | apokolypz@ start making music, you don't need to record it rightaway. i say just get it out there, coz you don't wanna end up being one of those people telling other people: i have so many dreams. no reason you can't write stories and play at the same time. i do both things, tho i mainly write it is a really nice feeling to just play and write when you're bores or feeling no creative energy. yakediyak | bakkermaarten007
06.30.15 | hep, the herb alters your mind, doesn't open it.
Your happiness is not real, sorry | Trebor.
06.30.15 | I think unhappiness inspires a lot of my work, but I can't actually work when I'm unhappy
When I tried to write high it was just the worst shit ever, I played guitar in a completely different way, but a way that was not good | KerfuffleinaHussle
06.30.15 | I also play terribly while high. Of course I don't realise that while I'm high, but afterwards....yikes | loveisamixtape
06.30.15 | i can only focus on all parts of a song when i am miserable. it is a curse. my happy songs are terrible | Beetlebum95
06.30.15 | I find i have the urge to write most, after listening to an album or song that i can connect to really intensely on an emotional level. It's like a "holy shit i wanna be able to make someone else feel like this " kind of thing.
Also, (Slightly off-topic) but someone told me after a gig i played once that they couldn't tell which songs were covers verses which were originals. Wasn't sure how to take it, tbh. Think it was a compliment? | apokolypz
06.30.15 | @Beeltebum95 probably means you have your own signature sound so they couldn't tell them apart | NorthernSkylark
06.30.15 | it's hard to say without having heard your stuff but it prob means you have a distinct style/voice and that they are ignorant. also, tell people what u cover if you want to get it out there man | VisionsFromTheDarkSide
07.01.15 | I haven't been in a band for a couple years now, and thus I've been writing on my own for that time, using guitar pro to take down all my ideas (cause I'm broke and can't afford proper recording equipment lol). I like writing music on my own because I'm fairly bossy and even when I was in a band I liked to dictate the songwriting process. But what you said here kinda struck me:
" It's nice to hear something in a song you wrote that doesn't sound so damn "you."
I've never thought about it that way before, but now that you mention that, I think it's totally true, and on reflection is probably one of the main things I miss about being in a band | treeqt.
07.01.15 | y'all on some mad paragraphs shit | VisionsFromTheDarkSide
07.01.15 | People like talking about themselves I guess hahaha |
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