Originally Posted by: HambergThe point of the formula is to learn something from it (like how to write sick riffs) not to use it for every song. If you want to learn arrangement then study chord arrangments.

yeah but you don't present any analysis or feel or anything...you just gave him a formula for an example and that's it. he's better off learning other people's songs and learning form through the bands and artists that will eventually end up defining his sound as a writer anyways.


writing isn't a science unless you're writing classical and even then you can get away with faking it (see 12 tone series, john cage, and shoenberg).


you don't write sick riffs from formulas, you write sick riffs because they come to you from jamming and from having the creativity in you already.