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Rec'd on 🎼 creative writing process - music

if you’re ever stuck, just write anything. If the lines don’t make sense together, that’s great. If it sounds nothing like what you’d normally write, great! If it’s not very good, great. just see where your fingers fall on the guitar or piano, or where your wandering mind takes the melody and lyrics and finish whatever crap you’ve just come up with. Finish it in 20 minutes knowing you might not show it to anyone.
Sometimes you might end up finding a cool melody, lines or chord sequence that you fuck with, sometimes you won’t. But working from something’s better than nothing. You could sample it, repurpose it, trash it but you’ve got something tangible in front of you.

@shredddflanders

Oct 29, 2024

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@theclack

Was going to write a rec, but this pretty much sums it up for me too. I noodle around a lot. Just making a habit of picking up the guitar and falling into a meditative state of messing around is good for just keeping up my dexterity and opening up pathways for something cool or interesting to happen. Not everything you do has to be good or even heard by anyone else - it can just be practice. I don't know music theory, and honestly, I think it has been more freeing to approach instrumentation with an outsider perspective of sorts.

Oct 29, 2024

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Other times it can feel like beating your head against a wall repeatedly and still never breaking through to the other side - blood trickling down your forehead and all.
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