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All day I think about cool melodies, rhythms, sounds, transitions, pretty much entire songs that I could be writing when I am at work/class/riding my bike/talking to my girlfriend, but when i finally get the time to sit down at my computer and open up reason(or any daw for that matter) and start transcribing/writing/recording those thoughts it turns into something terrible and ends up in my chainging together like 40 matrix's and making some wacky loops or spending 30 minutes trying to perfect one subtractor sound or just jamming on my midi controller. Then i finally get one cool loop and im pretty much stuck and dont know how i would build the song into that loop and then make that loop interesting for more than 4 measures and then end the song.
Its terrible.
When i am done i will go to bed and listen to cool songs in my head and then fall asleep.
Does anyone have any tips for transcribing/writing/recording/making music.
I feel like theres something I am not getting, its frustrating. I can play all the stuff i think about, but when i record/transcribe it; it just doesnt sound the same  | |
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03/16/08
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gamatam
Create post/comments, I've been frustrated with DAWs for a while now. I've some years doing music on pc (without keyboard too) and have come up with interesting 'bits' that I have been happy with, but few complete tunes. I normally loose interest once i start arranging by copy/pasting ideas around in the tune. I think the comments about looping are most valid - having a bit of variation in a song makes the song listenable for longer periods, me-thinks.
I've gone back to playing in a 'flesh' band again, great fun and the creativity spins off in all directions if you can find open minded people to play with. It does come with its own baggage though: we're on our second singer, second bass player and practice every second week in our drummer's mother's living room ;)
I'm going to concentrate on recording music in a tape based way, using ardour to record the music and overlay on top of that. Should be fun 
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