Are You Making Music? Options

[Gabriel Leopardi]

Hello guys! I decided to start a thread where I invite you to answer a very simple question that has two possible answers: yes or no, and for each answer I have a second question, so here we go:


ARE YOU MAKING MUSIC?


1. If the answer is NO, please tell me the reasons.

2. If the answer is YES, please tell us what you are composing.

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[Spock]

For the past year and a half, yes - it has been my driving inspiration to have originals, at least ideas to have something to collaborate with others on. Now I have the 6 which I set as sort of a goal. I can't say they're finished, but nothing every is until you spend money recording them I think.

For the past 2-3 weeks since all my time has been put into refurbishing that guitar, my mindset has shifted to the point that I am ready to not write, but get back to learning the fundamentals. Start back where my instruction thread left off, and start on lessons to become a better more rounded player.

I think my composition skills have gotten better over the past year, my knowledge of how to set-up and record using my gear, understanding Logic, understanding the components of my set-up and putting together my dream set-up which is exactly what I wanted and hoped out of the time and experience, but I didn't really grow as an actual player either, yet, I felt what I've learned is equally as crucial.

Now, I want to learn how to shred but mostly, just how to improvise in a scale. Learn patterns and how to work around the fretboard - whether slow or fast, and it to make sense to me.

I get these self-imposed goals in my head, and become so focused and driven on them that I block everything out. Unfortunately, I can't mentally dictate what those goals are - they just pop in there and I sort of have to follow the path until I feel I have achieved them, then become obsessed with something else and go down that road.

When I joined this site back in December of 2012, I was on fire to learn the essentials, but I had just migrated from Garageband to Logic, and had 2 song ideas of the 6 I had set a goal to achieve. So I juggled between agendas.

Still this site is my favorite site, and it keeps what is important to me in the forefront of my thinking. And what is most important, even over having some great compositions and equipment, is knowing your instrument - first and foremost.

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[Cosmin Lupu]

For the past year and a half, yes - it has been my driving inspiration to have originals, at least ideas to have something to collaborate with others on. Now I have the 6 which I set as sort of a goal. I can't say they're finished, but nothing every is until you spend money recording them I think.

For the past 2-3 weeks since all my time has been put into refurbishing that guitar, my mindset has shifted to the point that I am ready to not write, but get back to learning the fundamentals. Start back where my instruction thread left off, and start on lessons to become a better more rounded player.

I think my composition skills have gotten better over the past year, my knowledge of how to set-up and record using my gear, understanding Logic, understanding the components of my set-up and putting together my dream set-up which is exactly what I wanted and hoped out of the time and experience, but I didn't really grow as an actual player either, yet, I felt what I've learned is equally as crucial.

Now, I want to learn how to shred but mostly, just how to improvise in a scale. Learn patterns and how to work around the fretboard - whether slow or fast, and it to make sense to me.

I get these self-imposed goals in my head, and become so focused and driven on them that I block everything out. Unfortunately, I can't mentally dictate what those goals are - they just pop in there and I sort of have to follow the path until I feel I have achieved them, then become obsessed with something else and go down that road.

When I joined this site back in December of 2012, I was on fire to learn the essentials, but I had just migrated from Garageband to Logic, and had 2 song ideas of the 6 I had set a goal to achieve. So I juggled between agendas.

Still this site is my favorite site, and it keeps what is important to me in the forefront of my thinking. And what is most important, even over having some great compositions and equipment, is knowing your instrument - first and foremost.

Hey mate Out of what I can remember, your compositions were very, very nice and you had great arrangements and riffs.

The lead part needed some adjustments here and there, but nothing that can't be fixed - you know writing music is something you should do all the time, in order to get better and better at it. Needless to say, developing yourself as a player is equally as important So, I would find a way to get them both rolling - I for one don't like to practice without being able to use what I have learned - each little thing that goes into my head and hands, must come out in a piece of music, otherwise, there is no need to learn it.

So, the process as I see it:

- figure out what you would like to hear in YOUR music
- learn the particular elements
- apply them in your music in a personal form

What say you?

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