Every now and then visual stimulus can be very inspiring for songwriters.
Here is a random picture from Flickr. When you look at it, try to let it create some sort of feeling or idea inside you, then use that to start making music.
Be sure to check out what else the photographer has to offer. You may end up finding yourself a new muse!
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Sometimes visual stimulus can be very inspiring for musicians.
Here is a random picture from Flickr. When you look at it, try to let it create some sort of feeling or idea inside you, then use that to start making music.
Be sure to check out what else the photographer has to offer. You may end up finding yourself a new muse!
MUSIC: 200603-200803 Listening History Graph
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
Made with www.last.fm/user/C26000/journal/2006/07/30/195693/I can see where I changed my playlist algorithm,
and started using a whitelisted-subset (‘changerrecent’),
at which point playlist management really takes off.
This was around March, 2006.Up to that point, it was a 9000 song shuffle (‘changer’), so the
graph is all thin slivers. The first large slivers emerge after we
started doing ChangerRecent, a smaller subset (1000 vs 9000).Then, certain bands taper off and stop — because we started doing
ChangerRecentToLearnOnly. As songs were learned, they were
removed from the playlist. Catchier bands taper off sooner, thus
you can see, for example, King Missile tapering off by August of
2007 — way before completely un-catchy Ratos De Parao, which
took until November of 2007.Our first completed CRTL (ChangerRecentToLearn) was 1000
songs, and took ~6 months (May->November) to complete.Notice Ratos De Paroa at the bottom. This was the VERY LAST
BAND in our ToLearn playlist — the least catchy — possibly the worst
music in the playlist. Thus, at the very end, this was all that remained
for a good week until we learned the final songs. Makes it look more
important than it is. (August-October 2007.)New music was put in once R.D.P. was learned — but we kept
the ToLearn playlist in the 0-150 song range — never going up
to 1000 like the first time. That is, we keep up with the new music
nowadays, and never get 1000 behind.Thus, on the right of the graph, you now see larger, consolidated
blocks of fewer bands. This represents the transformation in how
we listen to music.After that, there were about 10 concerts in 5 months, so the
decision of what new music to add was based on which bands
we were about to see in concert — Ozzy Osbourne, Chemlab,
Ween, Gwar, They Might Be Giants, Ministry, etc.As you can see at the very right of the graph, Ministry is taking
over our playlists, as we prepare for the March Ministry concert.
Ministry now represents about 95% of music listened to in the
past 2 weeks.
I am sometimes really interested in discovering what other musicians make when it comes to their own instruments to create music.
This is a random video from youtube that is tagged with “Home Made Instrument”. Some of them might be crazy and overly simplified, and others might be elaborate and highly technical. Either way, I hope you get some kind of enjoyment and possibly even inspiration from it!
I couldn’t resist to put a video of a guy in Berlin playing with plumber pipes…
Even though I’ve been playing guitar for a lot of years, I still often get guitar lesson books or videos. Everyone plays differently, and every guitar teacher teaches different techniques…
… and the more techniques I know, the more creative I can be, right?
Here is something from Amazon that you might want to consider
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Hi Songwriters
Here’s a post that I think you will like taking a peek at.
Independent musicians are now earning serious money from licensing their music forr movies, TV shows, games, apps, corporate presentations, slideshows, and YouTube videos. But WHICH independent artists are earning money? And for what types of tunes?
The answer might seem obvious: artists who create music that fits the specific needs of a particular production.
Yeah, duh! But it’s a surprising answer when you look at it from another angle– Song placement has nothing to do with what is popular at the time, what is “cool,” what is a top seller, or which artist is a household name.
The only criteria that matters is that the mood or content of your music meets the needs of some music director out there in the mysterious world of popular entertainment.
It is exactly for this reason that you should sign up every single bit of recorded music you’ve ever made for CD Baby’s sync licensing program– you never know what
The rest of the article can be found here:
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Occasionally visual stimulus can be very inspiring for musicians.
Here is a random picture from Flickr. When you look at it, try to let it create some sort of feeling or idea inside you, then use that to start making music.
Be sure to check out what else the photographer has to offer. You may end up finding yourself a new muse!
Music guitar
Image by @Doug88888
Music guitar
An exclusive series of Living Legends Music interviews with Livingston Taylor. Part 9 of 10. Recorded on January 12th, 2008 in Vero Beach, FL. Livingston Taylor’s official website: www.livtaylor.com Living Legends Music online www.livinglegendsmusic.com
This video was picked at random through an automated function of Creative-Music.org. I am a big fan of creativity and I love watching people demonstrate their various ideas on songwriting. I thought using an automated function would be a great way to get a diverse set of ideas without my own influences showing through too much. Hopefully I have set up the filters well enough that the videos chosen by the process will be fitting for this blog. If in the odd chance that this video does not fit the purpose of the blog, I apologize!
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