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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I hear whole pieces (even down to the minutiae) in my head so can't really offer any decent advice as to where I start. Sometimes it may have been triggered by a thought, sound or riff I heard or played days earlier. Once it is down the I try and shut off to it and approach it from different angles to see where I can add variances to the main theme.
That said I do wholeheartedly believe the more you do it the easier it is.
Write a crap song - Decide what you don't like about it, what sounds clichéd and work out what bits would stop you playing it to someone else. Now write a less crap song using what you have learned and do the same. Then write a less crap song still, and so on.
When we are commissioned to write a specific piece I try and absorb the pace and emotion of the description or accompanying tracks and spend a lot of time just calmly and quietly thinking. Sometimes the thing that comes is just right from the get go, other times I bin them but they have got my brain working in the right direction so act as a good base for inspiration.
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I read a thing with Al DiMeola ( okay, not noted for his sing along ditties) where he said that songwriting always started with a chord progression- that you can make melodies over interesting chords but it's much harder to put interesting chords under a melody.
I read a thing with Al DiMeola ( okay, not noted for his sing along ditties) where he said that songwriting always started with a chord progression- that you can make melodies over interesting chords but it's much harder to put interesting chords under a melody.
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I'd turn this on it's head. The lyric can give the rhythm and the cadence which challenges the songwriter to avoid cliche in supporting it with harmonies. But it is hard to put an interesting melody over an 'interesting' chord progression. Of course, as this is a largely a guitar-focused site, people will prioritise guitar parts - but if we are on about song writing rather than guitar widdling, then we might ask (as we always should before writing) "Who is the audience?"
My music theory knowledge background is classical, and that's exactly what you're encouraged to do for theory exam composition
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.