TIP alert::: Getting Past Writers Block! Excellent Idea
So plenty of us get stuck with not being able to write tracks. We'll make a loop and play with it tweak it and never go anywhere with it. I ran into an Idea while browsing around that a guy used for Jazz when he had problems with writers block, it works fine for any kind of music.
Now this is simplest if you are using something like Ableton Live, or something with the ability to load a song and find the beats, so that you can line it up in your sequencer.
Find a track or song that is somewhat similar to what you want to make, or it can be completely different it doesn't matter. Load the track in your sequencer and line it up.
Then find a nice melody section or nice rhythm section and loop a few bars of it. Then what you do is start writing a new part to that melody or rhythm in key, tempo, and rhythm as if it were your own song and you are just adding a new part. Maybe write a pad to go along with the lead, or a dualing melody whatever.
When you get something you like you can eq the bottom end off the song that you are using and start writing some drums and a bassline maybe.
If you have problems with the layout, just mimick the layout of the song you are using. Just lay out the song by putting your drums where ever there are drums in the track, leaving spaces where the break downs are. Then you eventually get rid of the original track you were using and start writing off what you wrote.
Since you didn't copy the melodies or basslines you just added to it, it wont sound like a copy of the original track, so don't feel like you are copying or stealing someone elses music. You are just borrowing it to give you some ideas. It works great. Even John Lennon from the Beatles would do this for songs.
| quote: | | In radio interviews, some of which have not been heard for decades, Lennon admits: 'Especially in the early years I would often write a melody, a lyric in my head to some other song because I can't write music. So I would carry it around as somebody else's song and then change it when I got down to putting it on paper or tape - consciously change because I knew somebody's going to sue me or everybody's going to say "what a rip-off".' |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news...1164013,00.html
and someone made a good point in the Ableton Live forums, that most people consider the Beatles to be excellent song writers.
So anyway this helped me alot, so I thought I would share it with you, bash it if you want, or use it and find out it works great.
~Airyck~
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