blinddrew wrote: 2) What do you have to say?
Without this there is nothing, with this in place the rest is craft.
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blinddrew wrote: 2) What do you have to say?
Watchmaker wrote: I know what the truth is in my case however. That is I am afraid of expressing the core truth of my self. It scares the shit out of me in a way that my youthful self did not know. Until I get over that, I ain't gonna write anything worth listening to.
Dolmetscher007 wrote: Anyway... does anyone of you guys have any kind of online course, or book, or any other kind of solid resource for helping a guy like me with genre overload, tap into what he really wants to create when it comes to writing songs?
Tomás Mulcahy wrote:It's why we have the books "The Inner Game of Tennis" and I think there is a music one as well.
Exalted Wombat wrote:Try 'what music can I sell?' You're at the most productive time of your life. You've had time to train your skills, you haven't yet run out of energy. This is when you go full ahead at earning. If music's just a hobby, and it isn't satisfying you, do something productive instead. Music will still be there later on.
Exalted Wombat wrote:
Let go of 'what music do I like?'. Try 'what music can I sell?'
Dolmetscher007 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:53 pm
Anyway... does anyone of you guys have any kind of online course, or book, or any other kind of solid resource for helping a guy like me with genre overload, tap into what he really wants to create when it comes to writing songs?
ManFromGlass wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 2:06 pm I’m always torn when I find something I don’t like between immediately moving on to another as life is too short, or do I relisten and try to figure out what I don’t like about the track, and possibly learning something about music or myself.
Mostly I’m not in self learning mode and if the internal crap meter says move on then I do.