Members knotty Posted January 25, 2015 Members Share Posted January 25, 2015 Very straight forward, endless possibilities and brilliant.What do you think?[video=youtube_share;qvVQzokeD-g] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted January 25, 2015 Members Share Posted January 25, 2015 Dan dis sht wurluggamuhf ah kn dwittly wabo laba didi yall. [video=youtube;qoLS9We9hl4] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted January 25, 2015 Members Share Posted January 25, 2015 hmmm.......I guess I think it's really just not that complicated. This may sound arrogant, but it really isn't meant to be, but personally I've never found coming up with (what I think are) cool melodies to be much of a problem. I mean the inspiration for them is just there. Made up of the countless hours of my life studying all the music I love. As a kid sitting with my headphones on mentally tearing apart every single sound I heard on a record. Dissecting it and asking my self why I liked it. And also why I didn't like the stuff I didn't like. Starting with drums taught me the Rhythm part of it, so by the time I learned my first couple of chords on guitar I could assemble them into original things I thought were cool. From there learning famous songs just gave me more options for things I could use. I don't see writing melodies as any kind of "magic" or "genius" in the same way I don't see people who have amazing musical technical prowess on their instruments as being "magical". It's learned and it's practice. Sure some people will always be better than others....just as anything else in life...but it all comes from study and hard work and anyone can become good at it with the right training. I suppose if looking for outside inspiration for a melody, like a speech, or whatever, as the video suggests, is necessary for some people then great more power too them. Whatever it takes to create a cool song, really doesn't matter. There isn't a "right" way to make music. It's all valid. I guess I've just never needed to look at it like that. To me the melodies are the easy part. It's the arranging that gets much harder. Once you have that cool melody, what do you do with it? How do you shape and contort that into something that will make a cool 2 to 3 minute song? How do you come up with and add a complementary or counter melody to it to create a cool 5 to 7 minute song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted January 25, 2015 Members Share Posted January 25, 2015 Most of my riffs and pieces come to me in dreams. I keep a little hand dictation machine by the bed because it is almost impossible to hold them in memory for more than a minute after waking.Sometimes it is dream "background music" and sometimes it is actually dreaming playing a guitar or keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hellion_213 Posted January 25, 2015 Members Share Posted January 25, 2015 Riffs come to me at various times of the day, so what I've started doing is humming them into the sound recorder on my phone. Trying to remember them all day is dam impossible. Later in the week or whatever I sit down and try to work through them. As sound creation said, arranging all these melodies/riffs is what takes a second. I want to make sure they flow together in a sensible way. Lyrics on the other hand are a little more challenging for me, and usually flow with the guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted January 26, 2015 Members Share Posted January 26, 2015 Food for thought. A lot of my melodies come from singing to my cats after I've had too much coffee. True. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DocD3F4U17 Posted January 26, 2015 Members Share Posted January 26, 2015 i figure most people have to get away from melody because what u enjoy n recognize on guitar and start to work with is stuff you have probably already heard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted January 27, 2015 Members Share Posted January 27, 2015 Food for thought. A lot of my melodies come from singing to my cats after I've had too much coffee. True. Glad I'm not the only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted January 27, 2015 Members Share Posted January 27, 2015 I use the Keith Richards idea, when I make a mistake I say"hey,a new song" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Virgman Posted January 28, 2015 Members Share Posted January 28, 2015 I like this. Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CranachTheElder Posted February 1, 2015 Members Share Posted February 1, 2015 ssh you are giving away all the secrets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Steve2112 Posted February 1, 2015 Members Share Posted February 1, 2015 I think we make it more complicated than what it is. Funny how some of the simplest songs are so treasured. Put some chords together, write a poem that doesn't really make any sense but rhymes- and voila song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Virgman Posted February 2, 2015 Members Share Posted February 2, 2015 Using this method I just came up with a great riff and lyrics. I can't record the riff but the lyrics go like this... "I hit the sackI've been too long I'm glad to be back Yes, I'm let loose From the nooseThat's kept me hanging aboutI've been looking at the sky 'Cause it's gettin' me highForget the hearse 'cause I never dieI got nine livesCat's eyesAbusin' every one of them and running wild" That's as far as I've gotten so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted February 3, 2015 Members Share Posted February 3, 2015 Using this method I just came up with a great riff and lyrics. I can't record the riff but the lyrics go like this... "I hit the sack I've been too long I'm glad to be back Yes, I'm let loose From the noose That's kept me hanging about I've been looking at the sky 'Cause it's gettin' me high Forget the hearse 'cause I never die I got nine lives Cat's eyes Abusin' every one of them and running wild" That's as far as I've gotten so far. hmmm.......sounds juuuuuuuuust a little familiar.....you might want to google that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 That video blows me away every time I hear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Bucksstudent Posted February 6, 2015 Members Share Posted February 6, 2015 Learning and practicing improv is what helped me with melodies as a player. As a singer, I go where the rhythm, chords, and lyrics take me. I'm beginning to find rhythm guitar more interesting than lead, because the rhythm is what drives a song. To create a signature rhythm or riff is much more memorable than a solo. I think that's why I find much of modern metal pretty bland because it's an entire generation of players who spent half a day doing scales so they could shred faster. I've spent up to six hours playing, but I no longer have the interest. Conversely, I'm also straying away from layered effects and playing more with basic tonality, and spending more time with my acoustic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted February 7, 2015 Members Share Posted February 7, 2015 It floors me too. Bop could come back on that stuff besides the derivative potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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