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Very interesting. Well, everyone has their methods and none of us could argue the results Brian Wilson has achieved.
On guitar ideas flow out smoothly, but I fall into ruts. On the piano I'm limited by my lack of skill. On iPad all the apps available help to generate ideas, but can also distract from real "song writing".
I've recently been having some fun with MIDIMorphosis. Playing Model 15 and Viking Synth with my guitar is a trip. Melodies and riffs that would sound stale on guitar turn into things I would never get out via a keyboard.
Yes, but you might also argue that the Berlin was the instrument. Or Iggy.
Best Songs EVER !!!
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So has this become a piano vs guitar fanboy thread?
I love the piano, and I love the guitar. They inspire you in different ways, and there's no wonder most songs were probably composed using one of those. They offer the best ratio of complexity to creativity (the guitar definitely winning on portability). I'm partial to the piano because of the bass, but to write songs with a melody and chords, the guitar is easier and plenty sufficient.
But with music production (I do electronic) I take a more linear approach, a bit like counterpoint using different notes and timbres for different phrases. My writing process usually starts with random motifs that pop into my head, or are inspired by my surroundings, but when I go and try to put that to work on a "mechanical instrument", it usually takes another direction, and some of my most satisfying songs have resulted from happy accidents that happen along the process and sort of hijack the song.
I honestly see no difference between guitar or a piano as far as songwriting is concerned. I am mostly a guitarist but sometimes I like getting 'lost' on a piano and come up with less obvious ideas because I'm stuck in my ways on a guitar. I guess it would be similar for pianists to whom guitar is a second instrument.
I find the guitar as capable of creating bass lines as well as harmonic content as the piano. Possibly less obvious @Telstar5
Fuzz box?
Incredible discontent, heartbreak, loss, longing, grief, anger, rancor, fear, but more often then not the girl sitting in the pub in the corner who hasn't caught your eye yet...
"During their days in France and Berlin, Bowie and Pop would watch American television shows on the Armed Forces Network, especially “Starsky and Hutch.” The station ident of the AFN at the time was a radio conning tower (like the old RKO logo) giving off a staccato signal: BEEP-beep-beep, BEEP-BEEP-be-BEEP. One night, watching TV with Pop in his apartment, Bowie took his son Duncan’s ukulele and played the AFN riff on it. The two started building up a song. “Call this one ‘Lust for Life’,” Bowie said.
Pop and Bowie transferred the riff from guitar to drums. Pop had started out as a drummer and he still worked out songs as a form of percussion. So the studio version of “Lust for Life” starts with a 1:10, 30-bar intro, the riff first pounded out on Hunt Sales’ open-tuned toms, soon shadowed by Tony Sales’ bassline. (This is the riff in its primal form—Pop sings most of the second verse over it.)"
So many great responses here.. Why does the iOS community seem smarter than the conventional DAW community? Anyone noticed?
I choose incredible discontent as the most cathartic
Yes, it's a silly argument
Best place for it then
Hunt Sales will tell you that HE was the instrument. Quite emphatically.
I find getting an initial idea on the guitar, then putting it down and working through it in my head or a notation app, works best. As noted above, the fingers tend to do what they always do, rather than something interesting. Learning any other instrument also helps.
Yes...Can't discount just "coming on to stuff" while noodling on the instrument.... So let me update it then. Best TWO songwriting killer apps.. Guitar and piano. You can even "update" guitar using an alternate tuning. Piano so clearly represents in order the 12 tones of the western scale and even eastern for that matter (keyboards in Asia). They're practically infinite.. The limitations are pretty much built out of the instruments and lie within the user for the most part. You can rearrange those notes in infinite ways.
Word. Language, voice.
Always.
Disappointment.
Whatever instrument you use will lead you to different results. Pianos lend themselves to a certain style of songwriting that is different from what guitar lends itself to or any particular app. Although if I had to pick one app that's actually best at quickly sketching out a full track id probably say imaschine2, just wish it had midi in
I play both guitar and keyboard (not saying piano as I don't play a real piano with heavy keys). I find both very useful and both very different but equally both the same....That is down to me, not the instruments, if I'm not already inspired I will not get anything out that is worthwhile.
My favourite tool at the moment, and I've only had it a couple of weeks, is my Novation Circuit. Set a scale, record chords and melodies using rows of 8 pads mapped to the scale, chords are simple I just use pad 1, 3 and 5 for the tonic, I don't have to do all the mental translation of individual keys or hand positions to scales, I can change key instantly to try different scales or chord combinations, Once I find a progression that works i'll then move onto a guitar and or keyboard in order to get more expressive playing.
P.S. I don't do words, I haven't had enough loss, heartbreak, danger, misfortune, anger or sheer ecstasy in my life, that is why i am more a producer than songwriter
There's a trick I've always used that's gotten me nowhere, creating-problems-out-of-thin-air, in my mind, which is a sort of haunted house, in the fakest sense...
It's coming.
There's a cheery thought! Let's hope its more the ecstasy than the others.
That's short and sweet statement.
I dig it.
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." -- Jack London (and also the FAWM.org motto).
I wish I'd used more words like Wealth, Health and general happiness now, then I'd have more to look forward too
WWLRD? app
(What Would Lou Reed Do?)
Sadly, there are no more updates forthcoming.
Always loved that one (and Jack knew about clubs). As mentioned before, I think of this Picasso quote as bookend to Mister London's: Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.