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How do you make good music ?

dantys	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 6:41 AM It is great if you reveal your secret in writing/composing songs. /me just imagine a singer with great voice and be aware that every great idea comes from God, so shoud be greateful. It's a good condition for drawing inspiration.
CrescentShadow	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 6:50 AM theory. theory is the key. for inspiration, that comes during english class while the rest of the class is reading othello, im off in my dreamworld imagining riffs or something. also listen to a variety of music to get inspirations and influences.. if you're in a rut, dont worry and dont force it. just play stuff you like and dont try to write for a while, and before you know it, you'll have come up with something.
onewhodreams	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 10:44 AM I think a lot of songwriting is divine inspiration You just have to be open and listening at the right time. I also think in order to make "good" music, that you have to not only allow your creative juices to flow, but you have to work at it once it's on paper or recorded and make it the best it can be. Whether that's a few days or a few months the song will tell you when it's finished
GeneHilbert	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 11:41 AM "The beauty of the universe lay not in the stars figured into it but in the music generated by human minds, human voices, human hands." The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison ......... The same applies to music ...... There are no magic bullets
mawcs	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 12:11 PM Trick question, huh? You asked "how do you make good music?" (I have added emphasis to "good"). Well somebody needs to define "good." I think every human soul has the ability to create "good" music. I think that God created every one of us with music attached to the spiritual hip. The key is expressing it; or as you put it "make music." For me, everytime I write something, it is me learning about myself and learning new was of creating music. I think that no matter how "bad" is sounds, it was good. Not because of the end result, but because of the process.
Veracohr	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 5:50 PM I channel Elvis.
Distilled1	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 5:55 PM Reach in and tear it from your soul
KevBrock	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 9:37 PM Inspiration is the only way to go.
Larree	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 10:00 PM What is good music? Good in whose opinion? If you're making it, does your opinion even count? How can you know if it's really good or bad if it's your own? Your brat kid who grew up to become an accomplished axe murderer was a cute little Einstein just like the rest of them when it was a kid, wasn't it?
Arthen	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 10:05 PM Most starting out musicians always get the idea that by listening to a wider variety of music, your writing will improve. While that of course may be true, sometimes it depends as well. You gotta be careful...because the more u start to appreciate all kinds of things...you'll end up being more of an appreciative listener and critic than anything else. You will lose that initial drive and kick and inspiration you had in the first place. Some pple call that evolving; but what i've usually seen from these ones they don't end up writing stuff that feels from their own ego centric passions. I suppose one of my heroes Nicolo Paganini is right: "one must feel strongly in order to make others feel strongly." If you end up appreciating too much of other pple's music chances are your substance in writing will end up in that vein as well because you don't particularly feel strongly for any focus or direction you want to go.
fireball87	Date: December 17, 2003 @ 10:09 PM Secret to making good music... im still looking for it...
KevBrock	Date: December 20, 2003 @ 11:04 PM Larree is right. If other people say that your music is good, then you know you're going somewhere. If you want to make good music, then start making some songs and get your music out there to be heard. Be warned of some negative critisms though, many listeners in the real world like to give honest opinions. I've gotten many great feedback on my stuff. That's what I make music for. I make it for other people, not to listen for myself.
Arthen	Date: December 21, 2003 @ 10:18 PM KevBrock; I beg to differ. With that mindset; if you make music simply for other people; you'll never please anyone. Even if you have a cult following; afterawhile in your musical path and life you choose to head in a different direction; your fans will condemn you and go "oh my this guy's changed already, I hate his new style". If you keep your style, everyone goes "ohh, this guy only keeps ripping off himself. Same old shit." Fuck, you'll never win. You do music for yourself because it's what you love doing for yourself. Those that like it, good for them. Those that don't agree; fuck em. That's where the energy comes from. Your passion for creating music you want to create; and not for other people to judge.
TameasDust	Date: December 21, 2003 @ 10:36 PM good depends on the listener ... some songs that you would never listen to other people will adore ... refining what an artist puts out so that the listener gets all that the artist has is an art and sometimes pure genius that most of us cannot even comprehend
dantys	Date: December 23, 2003 @ 5:22 AM We need "upgraded hardware" to get better sound. You know what I mean
robin101	Date: December 23, 2003 @ 12:22 PM The answer is simple: Some of us know, and some of us only think we know.
woodhead	Date: December 23, 2003 @ 12:49 PM There are only two rules to wrighting a song, Rule 1) There are no rules Rule 2) Remeber the first rule Just remeber this if you write a song and you like, other will also, if you think the song is bogus well you maybe right, but then once again you never know, just need to fly your flag and see who salutes is all really.
dantys	Date: January 3, 2004 @ 2:39 AM Do musicians need preparation ? Like actors, sport players, teachers ? Phisically and phisically ? If so, what are these ? thanks guys, this thread enlights me more
dantys	Date: January 3, 2004 @ 2:43 AM Sorry, I mean phisically and spiritually
PaBlikMM	Date: January 3, 2004 @ 2:49 AM Everyone make "good" music if it come from heart ...
sepidman	Date: January 3, 2004 @ 11:45 PM I agree with Arthen for certain. You gotta please yourself. I make music because I like to. Used to have a goal. To write the best song that I could ever write. It seemed that everytime I wrote what I thought was a great song or the best that I could do then something better would come along. At least in my mind it was better. It is all a growing and learning process and I suppose that if I ever got to the point that I knew I had written the best song I was ever going to write, then what would be the point of ever writing anotehr song?? So I hope that I continue to gorw, to learn and that I never write the perfect song.
Larree	Date: January 4, 2004 @ 1:14 AM I get out of bed. I piss. I drink some coffee. I pick up a guitar. I make good music!
sepidman	Date: January 4, 2004 @ 1:16 AM But do you make good ?? That is the question!
Larree	Date: January 4, 2004 @ 7:37 AM Starbuck's Espresso!
sepidman	Date: January 4, 2004 @ 12:29 PM I hear ya Larree!! Whenever we do a session the coffee pot is on and yes......I by the Starbucks beans and grind 'em fresh!! Each morning I start with a large Espresso. Make mine black please.
Larree	Date: January 4, 2004 @ 12:35 PM Ahhh! Methinks we would work quite well together in the studio!

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