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Here are three ways to end writer's block forever. You're never going to be unsure of a B-section, unsure of being able to start a piece of music, and here they are. Number one, sounds from nature, a bird chirping, a waterfall, anything that has rhythm in it, take that rhythm, put it down, you've got the start of your next composition. How about man-made sounds? I was going to say a typewriter or a fax machine. What is this, 1997? It's like the sound of a dial-up modem connecting you to AOL. That's a reference for you Gen Xers and you millennials out there. You Gen Zers are like, what did he just say? Anyway, point is, man-made things, a faucet dripping. There's a rhythm to that. After you turn off a shower, turn off the bath, there's going to be this drip that happens, and you're going to hear that drip, and that's a rhythm for you to get started. Write that rhythm down. The last is you can actually take the rhythm from someone else's composition or take a rhythm from one of your old compositions and use that as a starting place and radically change the notes. Don't steal other people's work, but rhythm in and of itself is not copyrightable. It's the combination of the rhythm plus the notes that creates a melody, which is the copyrightable thing, and if you're using it to break yourself out of a spot of, oh, let's say writer's block, why not? Great artists steal. It's true, and we don't call it stealing. Oh, we. I just called myself a great artist. I didn't mean to do that. That was rather self-aggrandizing, but I'm an artist. We don't call it stealing. We call it being inspired by. So go be inspired by someone. More tips like this in new book. It's called Composed Legendary Video Game Music. It's out now on Amazon. Go check it out.
Stuck with half-finished game music ideas? Download the free 6-Level Game Music Composer Roadmap here: bestmusiccoach.com/roadmap?htrafficsource=yt&el=stuck-composers-steal-rhythm-from-anywhere-to-end-writer-s-b
Here are three ways to end writer's block forever. You're never going to be unsure of a B-section, unsure of being able to start a piece of music, and here they are. Number one, sounds from nature, a bird chirping, a waterfall, anything that has rhythm in it, take that rhythm, put it down, you've got the start of your next composition. How about man-made sounds? I was going to say a typewriter or a fax machine. What is this, 1997? It's like the sound of a dial-up modem connecting you to AOL. That's a reference for you Gen Xers and you millennials out there. You Gen Zers are like, what did he just say? Anyway, point is, man-made things, a faucet dripping. There's a rhythm to that. After you turn off a shower, turn off the bath, there's going to be this drip that happens, and you're going to hear that drip, and that's a rhythm for you to get started. Write that rhythm down. The last is you can actually take the rhythm from someone else's composition or take a rhythm from one of your old compositions and use that as a starting place and radically change the notes. Don't steal other people's work, but rhythm in and of itself is not copyrightable. It's the combination of the rhythm plus the notes that creates a melody, which is the copyrightable thing, and if you're using it to break yourself out of a spot of, oh, let's say writer's block, why not? Great artists steal. It's true, and we don't call it stealing. Oh, we. I just called myself a great artist. I didn't mean to do that. That was rather self-aggrandizing, but I'm an artist. We don't call it stealing. We call it being inspired by. So go be inspired by someone. More tips like this in new book. It's called Composed Legendary Video Game Music. It's out now on Amazon. Go check it out.
