Forgetting music for awhile

[mdel21]

Does anyone else ever wish they could just forget all the music they knew for a week or so but remember what you know about the guitar. I have the hardest time thinking of original stuff as far as lyrics go. Everything just reminds me of something else. Any ways to get past this?

[DMBFan63]

Does anyone else ever wish they could just forget all the music they knew for a week or so but remember what you know about the guitar. I have the hardest time thinking of original stuff as far as lyrics go. Everything just reminds me of something else. Any ways to get past this?

No.. i love my musical history.. wouldn't want to ever forget it.. but i know what yah mean sometimes you make something that sounds so great, then you realized you just ripped it off another song or combined a few songs together

[skpr41]

yeah i know what you mean. i struggled for a couple of weeks trying to write a song for my wife for valentines. all the dmb i'd been listening to was messin' me up. i couldn't get the songs i'd recently heard. plus i just started playing, so i suck and know very little of music theory. so gave up trying.

anyway, two days before valentines, i came up with the lyrics/sort of melody while in the shower. then that nite i put together a few chords behind it. practiced the day before and viola, she was all over me on valentines!

moral of the story, you never know when it'll come to you. i think the more you force it, the more of a writer's block you'll get or something like that.

[isaac]

it's a firm rule to never force it.

but the problem is that 99 percent of english teachers don't know this.

[led_zep123]

hahaha, i dont write lyrics. i gave up long ago.

[MWR]

Does anyone else ever wish they could just forget all the music they knew for a week or so but remember what you know about the guitar. I have the hardest time thinking of original stuff as far as lyrics go. Everything just reminds me of something else. Any ways to get past this?

No.. i love my musical history.. wouldn't want to ever forget it.. but i know what yah mean sometimes you make something that sounds so great, then you realized you just ripped it off another song or combined a few songs together

Thats what every song is. There are only 7 notes.

[skilly]

Does anyone else ever wish they could just forget all the music they knew for a week or so but remember what you know about the guitar. I have the hardest time thinking of original stuff as far as lyrics go. Everything just reminds me of something else. Any ways to get past this?

No.. i love my musical history.. wouldn't want to ever forget it.. but i know what yah mean sometimes you make something that sounds so great, then you realized you just ripped it off another song or combined a few songs together

Thats what every song is. There are only 7 notes.

there are only seven notes, yet dave has made around like 80 awesomly original songs? i think original music is hard to make, but it is possible.

[Four Eyes]

I always thought that you were supposed to be inspired to write good music. I would never write a song until I "felt" it. Most of the times, I would write the first verse, and chorus, and then quit. Then I got wierd, and started reading up about enlightenment, and such. The first thing they talk about is meditating on what you want to accomplish, then finishing what you start. I've been trying to do this, and I find it really helps. My only problem is that I get too easily side tracked, and I end up writing three songs at once. Writing is like any other talent, it has to be practiced, otherwise it will always sound the same. Try playing with other guitarists, I find that learning new riffs always sparks my imagination.

Peace!!

[Levi]

I think about getting abducted by aliens and being taken back to their home planet. I'm surprised to see that while they're technologically savvy, they've never developed music! At first I'm merely a specimen to be studied, but I wow my captors with a passable version of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," which just so happens to be the most lovely (and only) song they've ever heard! They demand I do this thing I call "singing" again and again until I am taken to their leader who is incredibly impressed. I'm declared the Overlord of Music and I commission a guitar to be crafted, having left mine back at Earth. Upon its completion I begin churning out hit after hit that I can take complete credit for because no one on this planet has heard of Dave Matthews Band or Radiohead and I think American copyright laws only extend to this solar system. I live amongst them and become super-famous and after I die I'm immortalized for eternity for revolutionizing their culture.

There was an episode of Voyager that went something like that, too...