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Where do you get your inspiration to make a new song?

MuddCell	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 11:47 AM as the topic says.. well.. I usually just pick a type of music that i want to compose, then i just go from there.. but i haven't got any inspiration lately. lol
MindSculpture	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 11:58 AM I usually go through cycles of being inspired/uninspired. I just try to make the most of it when the ideas are flowing. When I feel inspired, all I have to do is pick up the guitar and I will have the makings of a song within 20 mins. I'm quite lucky that way.
MindSculpture	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 12:16 PM oops - just noticed this was under the fruity forum. In that case, I just mess around with beats and samples until an idea forms that i can build on.
hantu	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 12:34 PM for me its with new tools or samples, or when im pissed off, or extra happy for some reason. you know the phrase "absence makes the heart grow fonder" yeh it works with music too.
tsand19151	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 4:12 PM
GeneHilbert	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 4:38 PM I have a tune titled "Toe Jam" what you ya think.....?
MuddCell	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 4:42 PM instruments.. fl studio, there all the same,, guess it should what inspires u to make songs!
Jazzmary2U	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 10:44 PM
champ803	Date: August 29, 2005 @ 9:12 AM It varies. One day I'll have specific melody/bassline in my head and I'll build off of that. Other times I'll play around with different instruments/patterns until something strikes a chord with me, and I'll go from there.
orgasmotron	Date: August 29, 2005 @ 3:11 PM i click random buttons, and the computer does the other half of the work for me. its a pretty sweet set-up.
2step-4eva	Date: August 29, 2005 @ 7:15 PM i always have on days and off days...yeah sometimes ideas just flow, it depends on how ur feeling. i sometimes go whole days with a bassline going through my head, so if this happens i try to get it down. if not i play the keyboard and mess around to get ideas(my keyboard isnt even hooked up to my PC, it just gives me ideas) occasionally i just accidently make something that sounds good when mucking about with knobs and stuff, but this is rare.
mattbanx	Date: August 29, 2005 @ 10:55 PM I get inspiration from piss, vinager, the sub coscience twisting every which direction, and most of all--thunderstorms.
Majyk	Date: August 29, 2005 @ 11:49 PM im inspired when i hear a song thats soo good that i wanna top it or when i get new software to make stuff with, or if im bored and i play on keyboard till i find a cool melody
mattbanx	Date: August 30, 2005 @ 12:13 AM I did'nt catch in time that this is fruity loops forum. I play all my instruments. I would'nt know about that.
GeneHilbert	Date: August 30, 2005 @ 12:48 AM You need mucho ganja mon
DigitalEntropy	Date: August 30, 2005 @ 1:54 PM inspiration? i pay a guy to write all my stuff for me... thats the same right? most of my stuff is written in the wee hours of the morning. and usually i dont remember writing it
TransAutobot	Date: August 30, 2005 @ 3:09 PM Really good question. I get my inspiration by listening to other good beats. Makes me want to make something better
hantu	Date: August 30, 2005 @ 11:43 PM ^^
monkvolcano	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 4:02 AM suffering.. lots and lots of suffering..
iOrbit	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 4:13 AM Coffeeeeeeeeeeh...
Pukeface	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 9:47 AM Boredom, Sombody else, Somebody els's crap, Mc Donalds and Globilisation, Aliens and Bad genetics. After all that, probably from the last song I did.....or bits of it!
Pukeface	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 9:48 AM And Orbit has a point
blueyes2112	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 9:49 AM personal experience is usually the best for me, an outlay of emotion! when you perform the track you can then get the audience to feel the way you do about the track and emotion behind it! my personal view anyway
MuddCell	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 5:05 PM very interesting responses!
idealist	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 5:07 PM if i get a barren spell i try to ignore it, genrally going back and playing with old stuff puts me back in the mood...
hantu	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 7:32 PM Ribena
Veracohr	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 9:55 PM I don't use FL, so I'll pretend this is in the "Music" forum and not FL-specific. I get inspired by all kinds of things. My music has always been inspired by life more than anything else; emotions and experiences and memories. But I also listen to music all the time, so I get inspired by what I'm listening to. And random sounds I hear can also inspire me. For instance, I slept on a friend's couch one night and woke up to her wooden wind chime that was right outside the window I was sleeping under. It was making a particular pattern and I thought of making a song out of it. Another time, I was watching some of my DVDs of the first season of Smallville. At the end of each episode, after all the credits, there's a WB logo, and a short little sound. It sounded vaguely like a kick drum and a short hi hat to me the first time I heard it, so I started a new song with that, and it's turning out to be a pretty good song.
GeneHilbert	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 11:12 PM Read a lot of Clive Barker
hantu	Date: August 31, 2005 @ 11:50 PM oh im so disappointed in smallville it has become so silly, more like a soap opra, still gotta watch it though for the part of the story line that im actually interested in, assuming it doesn't get diluted with the soapiness more then it already has. anywhooo, natural sounds are always a good inpriration, especially after a takeaway
egac	Date: September 1, 2005 @ 12:17 AM i don't need inspiration for my music, my music needs me for inspiration, it's important to know who wares the pants on this particularly ship
hantu	Date: September 1, 2005 @ 1:40 AM hmmm interesting oooorr ...
Jankolli	Date: September 1, 2005 @ 9:12 AM I usally come up with a new song when humming on a melody on the way to school or when walking far and so on. But transporting the song to FL is hard. SO I often press some random keys, make a drum line then come up a melody afterwards that fit.
BOWILLIE	Date: September 1, 2005 @ 9:16 AM depends on my bowel movement.. the plink plink kaplunk creats a melody..i creat from there..
GeneHilbert	Date: September 1, 2005 @ 12:19 PM Damn Bo - That explains why your tunes make such a splash.
BOWILLIE	Date: September 1, 2005 @ 12:59 PM
MuddCell	Date: September 1, 2005 @ 4:37 PM lol
2step-4eva	Date: September 3, 2005 @ 11:22 AM expanding on genehilbert's suggestion u need to have a spliff, then wait about 2 hours until u are at the point where ur mind is still a bit warped and has the creativity but after u have sobered up enough to actually concentrate on something 4 more than about 5 minutes
bLINK2005uk	Date: September 3, 2005 @ 3:52 PM i allways find i get into new songs when i get hold of new samples to play with , but i usually make about 10 songs and in those i will have 1 - 2 songs worth turning into mp3's. when people make constructive comment s on old songs, helps keep me going , instead of the usuall crap like "this is a good song ", "i like the intro" pls if i get any more of these psot ill chop of my bloody ears
comorbid	Date: September 3, 2005 @ 11:26 PM That point right before you start going unconscious for sleeping. It's annoying since, well, I'm trying to go to SLEEP - but that's usually when the sounds find their way to the front of my mind and start banging on the exit door. Now if I could just sequence in my sleep, I'd be set. :/
cosmicunit	Date: September 4, 2005 @ 1:48 AM Mescaline, Lsd...
cosmicunit	Date: September 4, 2005 @ 1:49 AM lol
MuddCell	Date: September 4, 2005 @ 12:35 PM nice nice nice cosmic lol

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