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noticingthemistake
Crime Fighter
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noticingthemistake
Crime Fighter
Joined: 08/04/02
Posts: 1,518
02/04/2004 2:50 am
Me too. If I have mastered anything as a musician, it's the ability to think up something off the top of my head. Music is always playing in my head, and I can create any type of music in my head at will. Like if I want to write something thats sound scary and evil, something always pops up in my head. Samething if I would want to write a beautiful sounding ballad. I talked to alot of people about it, some people say they have similar experiences and some don't. The skillful part of it is being able to pull it out of your head and into the physical world.

So my problem with songwritting is not being able to create ideas, but having too many come out at once. I can sit down and write out 40 different ideas, but choosing which one and not getting bored with it is the only challenge. I'm also the kind of person that always says it can be better, and I'll work on something for days until it's the best I think it can possibaly be.
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