How prolific are you as a music writer?

[Lee]

Personally, I never seem to run out of ideas. These little clips I've been posting are all written in about an hour.

I've got to get a mike so I can write full songs. I'd love to write a song and get someone famous to include it on an album. Apparently you can make megga-money if you do,

So how many clips do you produce in a week/month/year?

Lee

 

[Cowboy Dan!?]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

i dont produce like any clips :laugh2:

i can come up with tons of bass riffs on the spot but its like they are all pieces to a different puzzle. ill come up with several riffs that dont go together and then later come up with another group of unrelated riffs and then remember the older set and be like hey some of those would go together with some of these. then i get enough put together for a good song and play it for a while, then i forget it :smack:

 

[Lee]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

I forget just about everything I do too. That's why getting it on computer is great. I can stick it in a folder and forget it.

 

[nuntius]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

depends what mood im in.

sometimes 1 or 2 full recordings a day, sometimes if i'm writing a score a couple of days or even a week :/

 

[Mike M.]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

I have a lot of decent idea's, but not much as far as finished works. Due to the hours I work, quality free time is a rare luxury for me. I'll get an idea and put it on tape but then I might not be able to get back to it for a few week's. I'm grateful that I'm working but sometimes I feel like I'm working my life away.

 

[Number One]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

I have tons of ideas and stuff, but after I actually play 'em out, they sound like crap and I just forget about it. My friends say I sound good, but I just never think that what I do is good enough.

 

[seafoamer]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

I'm pretty much always writing. Like in my car I have to force myself to listen to music because I just assume keep writing tunes in my head without the radio or Cd player on.

 

[Artie]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

I have about three albums worth of songs, (thats CD's to you younguns'). The trouble is, they all have the same problem. I almost never get around to writing the "chorus" or "bridge", so they all stay at the same sound and pace throughout the song.

The second problem is, at my age, as I listen to my songs, I always start to second guess myself as to whether or not I "though-it-up", or "dredged-it-up" from the deep bowels of my memory.

Is it real, or is it memory . . . :smack:

 

[Lee]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

That's funny you should mention that 'did i write it or remember it' I do the same thing.


Lee

 

[nuntius]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

That's funny you should mention that 'did i write it or remember it' I do the same thing.


Lee

yeah i thought i'd wrote a cool riff once but then i put iron maiden on and realised id just figured how to play the bridge section to two minutes to midnight :smack:

 

[yes-fan]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

i come up with ideas every day. but i can never fit them into songs. i just write them down (not tab guys c'mon now) and then record bass, drum, keyboard under it. then i put it on a tape. eventually i listen to it after a couple of months and make something out of it. but not right away.

 

[Brow]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

When I'm playing guitar the music I make is generally in the Classic Rock/Blues template, but when I'm at the studio where I volunteer and I get on the recording software, the music I make is totally different!

Where-as I'd generally try and play a Bluesy solo on a guitar, when I get on a PC with a Drum Machine and a MIDI Keyboard I can make anything from Orchestral (or tracks with Orchestral parts) to heavilly distorted (almost 'Industrial' sounding) loops and tracks.

I dunno why this is, but I think it's kinda cool

Craig

 

[wasteofo2]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

That's funny you should mention that 'did i write it or remember it' I do the same thing.


Lee

I think alot of us do that, to date I've "written" 2 metallica verses by accident...

I generally come up with a whole song very quickly, and then spend days, weeks, months tweaking it, adding to it etc. I really only have 5 songs I'm proud of, but they're 5 full songs with more than just major/minor chords and/or I IV V.

 

[ledzepp29]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

I'm not good at writing stuff because I usually will make a riff up that I think is really cool then I change it a little because it stops sounding good after you play it for a while then I keep tweaking it until it just gets annoying then I drop it. I want to start writing lyrics but all I can write are funny poems, tenacious d type stuff

 

[Artie]

Re: How prolific are you as a music writer?

As far as the "remembering" part goes, there's so many songs today that just blatantly rip off another song, and since so much of rock is based on simple re-usable chord progressions - ie., E - A - D, I guess, as long as you really put your heart into it, its no big deal if you come "close" to another song. It'll just be your interpretation of a phrase.

Another problem I have with "writing" music - is it isn't actually written. I just lay down tracks, either in analog or digital. Occasionally, I'll write down those little chord pictures, so I can try to remember where I put my fingers, but too often, I don't even do that. Now, sadly, I have a couple of older rock things, (one of them is probably my best), that I myself can't remember what chords I played, so that I can redo it. :smack:

I wonder if anyone makes software that will "write" a song as you play. :laugh2: