What I'm trying to express is follow your heart when you play. I know that sounds kinda of corny, but it's the most powerful tool you have. Don't worry if your staying in the original key, if that's what you want to hear. Do it, don't hesitate. Follow the music, use the science later. If your going to write a sad song, play notes that sound sad to you. Express the emotion you want to convay. When people listen to music they feel the music, most don't look at it as wow that guy/gurl is playing a perfect mathematical symetrical sound. Mozart's requiem is sad because it's meant to express the mood of dying, hence the meaning of requiem. Listen to all the notes, they're sad sounding. Make the music based on the emotion or feeling you want to convay. Then use the science to understand it. This is why when to take music theory and they make you analyze music; for you to be able to analyze your own music and understand it, not so much how to write music scientifically. Your right music has no boundaries, starting a song with any idea before hand is setting boundaries. Just follow the music.

[Edited by noticingthemistake on 02-12-2003 at 11:00 AM]