stuck in composing

[fsx]

Hello all,

It's about since 2003 that I don't make something I'm really satisfied with. I mean music!
What do you suggest to give a shock to my song-composing attitude and restart making something good?
I ended up with many cds full of half-finished pieces!

Cheers =)

[synthfiend]

maybe try taking some music lessons on composition

[suzzymackenzie]

Try 'hands off' composing, that is, in your head, without your instrument. Hear a piece/a phrase/a groove in your mind's ear only, develop it as far as you can in your imagination, and only then try to implement it with your hands on an instrument. I don't get whole pieces this way, but I have certainly come up with elements of pieces.

[annikk.exe]

In the past when I've been stuck for inspiration to make something fresh and exciting, I've got through it by sampling weird stuff and using that in a song. For example I once sampled myself blowing bubbles with my head submerged in a bucket of water at various different notes, then using the samples as an instrument, resulting in the song Fishwarrior.


-Annikk

[Alakhai]

Alaways start a song with an idea, not with a good riff or anything else. if you get stuck, you only need to focalize the idea better than before, and music will surely follow ;)

[plaid_emu]

Maybe try an alternate form of note input. Have you seen the new AXiS controllers based on the Harmonic Table (http://www.c-thru-music.com)?

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AXiS-49 (http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=prod_axis-49): $500 USD

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[GrooveNinja]

First, always finish what you start. Not just in music, but with everything you do. If something was worth starting, then it must be worth finishing. I find that it is best to finish each thing that I start before starting something else, but that is not always possible. Also, give as much care to the end as to the beginning, for it is at the end when things most often fail.

(That was all just a paraphrasing of the Tao Te Ching, by the way.)

I have been working through this book, and I have been enjoying it immensely.

http://www.amazon.com/Composing-Music-Approach-William-Russo/dp/0226732169/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237917244&sr=1-1

Perhaps it will help you, too.