![]() we need space and identifiable motifs in our music to help give us time to absorb and fully experience the stuff in between the spaces.Īnd by identifiable motifs, I don't so much mean repeated figures, riffs and such - although those can be quite powerful as most rock guitarists and pop writers understand - but the feel of the an identifiable motif/theme. I remember years ago when a jazz guy said, Well, on guitar you can play endless streams of notes - but that's not really what most folks want. Thinking in terms of (wordless) song really helped me. ) I know that, as a young guitarist, I had a tendency to both play too much (breathlessly, if you will) as well as to meander (lack of identifiable motif/theme). (Of course, if one's barely ever croaked out a tune and doesn't know where to start, that might not be an immediate pathway. One thing I've found is that, at least for some folks, the human voice can be a good guide. One question: do you sing? Or are you more strictly interested in guitar instrumentals? (Or perhaps you 'sing' your melodies as you're writing guitar instrumentals?) ![]() From what you say, you're not getting much enjoyment out of your current practices and the grooves you're looking for apparently become something more like the same old rut. I definitely think you should push yourself to new growth. Everything I've written or tried to write with the guidance of that book has been absolute. Should I stick to what I know and just keep on writing heavy riffs and soloing (hard rock and metal aren't the only music I like, I like pretty much everything apart from R'n'B, pop and rap) or should I try to do more structured, chord focused music? If so, what do you suggest in order to make my chord songs actually entertaining to hear and play?ĮDIT: I do have the "writing songs on guitar" book, and ALL that talks about in terms of writing is chord progressions, absolutely nothing about single note tunes. I don't have any decent software for writing songs apart from one program, but the MIDI sounds on that are horrible and it's way too limited. I know a decent amount of theory, how to construct various chords, which ones go well together, and all that, but when I play in chords it just seems cliched and incredibly boring. I've tried patterns within chords rather than just playing them as a whole, but it's still awful. If I write in chords the song becomes dull, meaningless, slow-paced, overly melancholy, the vocal tune is horrendous. It seems the only things I can do are stupid power chord riffs and boring penatonic improvisation. ![]() Me trying to write stuff on guitar thinking in chords makes the songs about as nice to listen to as a cat being strangled to death.
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