RED LIGHT FEVER!!!

You may notice that Ive been a little quiet lately, some may think its a good thing, but its driving me nuts. Its worse than writers block because I have 4 ideas to work on but just cannot play them when I hit that record button. Before I start recording, its fine but as soon as I do I just cant seem to play it right.

Anyone else ever experienced this??? Got any tricks for getting rid of it??

Lewis

cloud9mission said:

j/k... don't do drugs!!

record everything and go back and cut

or


take your mind somewhere else

The most difficult thing is having excellent song ideas but not being able 2 write them down or record them cuz u cannot write music and have pages of song lyrics instead.

How easy is it 2 write and read music?

cloud9mission said:

I get taht way with guitar solos. I'm a jazzer naturally so having to come up with a decent 8 bar rock solo I get all sloppy and shite without having a few bars 2 work in2 it.
What point are you at? Are you just demoing the songs, just piecing the tunes themselves together, or are you in the process of making a more final version? I would say taht if you're piecing things together or demoing, don't worry if it's a little sloppy. That's the whole point of a demo anyway.

thetimefan said:

as easy as it is to read & write english

cloud9mission said:

My ass! Okay I can read Drum music and Piano/Guitar charts but I have 2 part company with U on the simplicity of the concept!

I'm feelin' U on the writers block right now. U were in Italy for awhile, didn't ya soak up any music culture? maybe U could incorporate stuff U've heard in2 some new projects

(said the man who really should be listening 2 himself!!!)

'dre

DreZone said:

I guess I learned it all backwards. I could read & write music before I could read & write english. True theres difficulties but its just another language at the end of the day.

Not a lot of music in italy when I was there. We found the closed music shop on the last day & thats as close to an instrument I got for the two weeks . In fact come to think of it, maybe thats it! Im just a little rusty

cloud9mission said:

Really?, how easy?!

thetimefan said:

Its just another language like anything else. Understand the language, understand the music

cloud9mission said:

I dunno about that - there's theory - you'd have to learn some theory to write out the music you hear in your head, so it's not just a matter of learning to read & write the language, you'd have to learn it - understand it - as well. Might be easier to get a 4 track and hum your ideas, then add your lyrics to that.

Writing and reading music seems complex,is there any 'free' computer programs that write music 4 u?, if so can u tell me what they r.

Thanx

otan said:

Yeah true but theres just as much theory behind English language. Whether you say wear or where changes the meaning of the word. Its a commonly used teaching tool to compare music theory to the english language.

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Yeah true but theres just as much theory behind English language. Whether you say wear or where changes the meaning of the word. Its a commonly used teaching tool to compare music theory to the english language.[/quote]

Cloud9 could u elaborate on the lineage between music theory and english language. I understand what u r sayin' but would like u 2 elaborate further.

Thanx