I pretty much know when I wont be creating anything good for the day. I'll sit down at the piano in the morning, mess around and try to think of something clever, and if I dont have anything, thats the way it is the entire day. On any given day though I might be listening to this kickass song, and I'll simply get up and sit down at the piano, the boom - I've got something good. I think it just requires patience when creating new material.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
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Inspiration, for me, seems to come out of just playing with things. Like, I'm just playing with a new synth I downloaded, and I'm like, "Hey, this'd make a cool bassline for a song!", so I try and write a song (and fail :))
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This'll help if you've got inspiration problems. Lots of wisdom in here.
Some explicit language though.
Some explicit language though.
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I find that getting away from my everyday life for a bit helps me to get my inspiration back. I think sometimes your brain gets bogged down in the everyday routine and it takes stepping back and letting your mind rest to find some new inspiration.
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For me, inspiration comes either randomly, or whenever I'm improvising something on my MIDI keyboard. I highly recommend you make sure you're near a MIDI input tool when you're feeling inspired.
If you're having a dry spell...
If you're having a dry spell...
- Try changing up your daily routine. Doing the same thing every day might drain you of your creativity.
- It also helps to listen to new music every now and then. I often find inspiration simply from listening to interesting music and using it as an influence. I find a lot of new stuff on soundcloud. The audio demos on Impact Soundworks' website are pretty inspiring, and so is this artist, IMO. For example, I listened to this and found the inspiration to write this in a week.
- Start to learn sound design? I often begin a song by finding an inspiring sound, or by designing a new sound from scratch on u-he Zebra2. I wrote this when I was simply experimenting with a new soundbank.
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