Creative Inspiration, Or lack thereof...
Juice420
May 22 2007, 06:50 PM
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Hey guys,

I have been playing off and on now for about 12 years and have been with GMC now for almost two months. I find the lessons here very helpful and can see myself improving greatly. Lately though I have been having a problem with a feeling of lack of creativity. I mean, after every practice session, I will try to write my own riffs/songs but sometime I think that I could never write something that makes someone else go "Man, that was awesome, I got chills from that." Do you think that the more someone progresses in knowledge of music that the better they would get creatively or is being an artist something that you have inside and if you don't have it, you don't have it?

A good friend of mine that I grew up with (and jammed with) went on to form his own band and I guess I have been feeling regret for not pursuing it with more passion then. I have been feeling an itch lately to start/join a band but now that I am almost 29 I have been feeling lately that it is too late for me.

Anyway, any insight would be helpful.

Thank you fellow GMC'ers.

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- Juice420   Creative Inspiration   May 22 2007, 06:50 PM
- - MickeM   I'm 37 and called a few of guys together only ...   May 22 2007, 11:12 PM
- - Kaneda   QUOTE Do you think that the more someone progresse...   May 22 2007, 11:38 PM
- - spdalton   I find that when I come up with riffs or songs tha...   May 23 2007, 07:26 AM
- - Ryan   I think of being creative is not thinking about it...   May 23 2007, 09:04 AM
- - Juice420   Thanks for the input guys. Thank makes sense. I th...   May 23 2007, 04:27 PM
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