where do you get inspiration to compose music and song?
By manya_pearl
@manya_pearl (1901)
Singapore
February 25, 2008 7:10am CST
I like to make my own music, i even record em, but i didn't write them into pieces. Usually if im in the mood, not doing anything, i will play my piano and try to make a song. Maybe short but i prefer to make slow music. My inspirations almost come from the movies or dramas that really touch my feeling. For example, winter sonata, and the like.
How about you, where do you get inspiration to compose music or song? Do you really compose music or just playing your musical instrument without no reason why you play with melodies and make improvisation with it?
3 responses
@Umbra75 (56)
• United States
26 Feb 08
It doesn't matter if I'm doing music, or writing poems or short stories; or sketching because there's nothing else to do, or whatever...
Many people have to plan out what they do before hand, and put it together that way. I've never been like that.
Instead, I'm much more spontanious when it comes to making something. I really have to rely on how I feel, and how what I'm making sounds to me. I never actually know what's going to be made, or how it's going to turn out, until I'm right there making it.
I was working on some music last week because I was depressed, but then forgot every word I was going to use because someone made me smile.
After that, I was just plain ticked-off that I couldn't finish it.
@Umbra75 (56)
• United States
26 Feb 08
Sorry. I forgot to say that my inspiration is usually just what I'm going through while I'm working on the piece. Though, if I really need help with my poetry, I'll listen to music - usually Jewel or Enya. Something deep and emotional, or musical and trance-inducing. anything that will get my mind to wander into whatever, and where ever, it needs to go.
The emotion in what I'm doing rules all. That's why I forgot all the words I was going to use in my song when I was cheered up. I needed to be depressed to finish that song, but I couldn't be. The song I finished with what I had is just a cheap knock-off of what it was going to be.
@justabloke (526)
• United States
28 Feb 08
Do you find that you end up following a similar pattern for your own compositions? I have found that I write most of mine the same, meaning that I start with an intro, into a verse, then a bridge/m8(this part is usually as long as the verse), chorus, link, verse, bridge/m8, chorus, solo, chorus.
I have also started creating a stand alone M8, where I play a solo over it.
@Umbra75 (56)
• United States
28 Feb 08
Actually, I did find that happening. So, now I'm concentrating on trying to make each song a different as possible (or, at least each group of songs), just so I can try to break the habit.
Sometimes there are long pauses, but not an actual bridge, between short verses. Sometimes I edit the song to make my verses overlap. Right now, I'm trying to go without music, but also make the songs as artistic as possible (overdubbing, mild echoes, major echoes-whatever it takes to make the lack of music seem trivial). I guess these might be something like 'Gregorian Chants' meets 'Enya', meets Jewel's brother-if she had a brother who could sing but not play an instrument except on computer, lol.
I think repeating the same sound is where people start run into problems many times-they keep making songs that sound exactly the same, and it gets boring. I'm never going to be a well known artist, but I don't want those who do know me to start falling asleep.
@justabloke (526)
• United States
25 Feb 08
I don't really know where my inspiration comes from. One day, I'll just sit at the piano or pick up the guitar and come up with something. I have to admit that words mean nothing in my songs. I just start singing any old rubbish and then when something fits I write it down and try and make up the rest of the words so, that it makes some kind of sense. On other days, I be totally uninspired and nothing works.
I must admit that I have recently changed my writing style. I used to come up with the basis of the song(as I explained above) and then I would record it and quite often(as do a number of my songs) I have all the basic music, which are usually chords, a good chorus and the rest is still waiting to be composed. Nowdays, I come up with the riff or the chorus and then I keep working at the song over a period of time(can be weeks) until I have 80-90% of the song composed and then I start making it a recorded project. I have also started writing all my songs around a unique riff or style, so, instead of having a sequence of chords, with some lead over it, I try and go for something a little more inventive. I hope this is a sign that I am growing in my song writing.
But, I am a person, who believes that everyone should do their "thing" however it works for them and none of us are right or wrong in our approach.
