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Help me. I'm suffering from Prog.

Bhairava	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 8:07 AM I know some of the music doesn't show it that I've posted up but everything I write tends to smack of prog rock. I do like prog in some ways such as Yes who are awesome. But I don't want to go, as far as songwriting is concerned, down the dreamtheater way. John Petrucci is one of my favourite guitarists don't get me wrong but the songs they have are kind of tacky/fun a lot of the time but I want a different mood. Its just every time I write songs I always go for interesting changes and feel unsatisfied by repeating the same guitar chord sequences over and over. So I make them more interesting as well. Then I get fed up of it being in 4/4 so I start experimenting in other time signitures though I haven't done that too much I know I will in the end. I think its just becaues I don't play in a band and over compensate on having different instruments adding layers to a peice. Any advice? Or have you been caught in a similar situation?
sinai	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 8:18 AM nothing wrong with striving to be different, or at least ecclectic, if it flows, it flows. journey not the destination and all that philosophical crap
patrickbulch	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 8:53 AM Hey. I am a huge DT fan and even I get sick of their masturbatory meanderings from time to time... It's all about expression. If what comes out is what you need to get off your chest then so be it. This music that ends up coming out is your personal style. Embrace it - never abandon it. Much of the three chord wonderdom that is executed by others is due to the fact that the performers either a.) lack the capacity to produce anything beyond the scope of the I, IV, V variations b.) are striving to adhere to a formulaic goal likely for commercial purposes c.) really like that style and perform it with mucho gusto. Personally, I like it when an exteremly virtuous band like DT does a basic three chord song and lights it on fire (i.e. These Walls - Octavarium).
pancreaspuppet	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 10:05 AM I know what you mean, I went through a similar phase like that - I think it has a lot to do with what you listen to. I really wanted to simplify what I was sriting, so what I did was kind of stand back and take a look at the music I most enjoy listening to, and think about how much/often it varies. i.e. before, I couldn't write in the same groove for 8 bars, and then I realised some of my favorite artists write whole 5 minute tracks in the same groove. That's when I started to change my thinking a bit, and not think in bars, but just listen to the sounds... I think that the root of composing is in finding a balance between repetition and variation - too much in either direction is bad news I think.
Bhairava	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 1:33 PM I listen to a lot of varied music really. Classical, Blues, Jazz, Folk, Heavy Metal, Rock, Soul, Flamenco,Indian. I'm specific in what I like but I don't stick to one style so maybe I just need to settle down and discover my style more too. I was thinking maybe I should try compose a little because part of the problem is I try to put too much into only one instrument. Patrcikbulch. I do really like dreamtheater at times but with chords and stuff. My general impression is as you get better you learn to do more with less. Like a very good poet could say what lesser poets would take many stanzas to say in just a few words. I think Petrucci influenced some of my weird chords I use and I kind of think of him as a guitar hero of mine.
shadowself	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 2:01 PM I wish I suffered from prog. Any prog I write starts out great and then ends up collapsing in chaos and I abandon it.
100thmonk	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 2:10 PM i think that if one makes cheese naturally and well then one should be proud of that cheese, and if you can't feel pride in it,learn how to make it sound cool and less to your distaste by changing something about it.(e.g. major keys usually produce more cheese than minor ones--that's my belief anyway--..) do what comes naturally to you, and i am sure you will make fun music..
EvilPicnic	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 3:37 PM Better than suffering from tonsilitus [theycutthemouttheycutthemout]
Bhairava	Date: March 7, 2006 @ 5:45 PM I've been invited into a band that plays pretty heavy music as a second guitarist so we will see what happens.