Purely and simply
@man of simple pleasures and this is not THE truth. Having said that:
Inspiration is not like trouble. You don’t have to look for trouble, trouble comes looking for you.
Inspiration is something else.
I’ve got friends who are photographers. If they don’t grab a camera and climb on a bike, they won’t make photos.
I’ve got friend who are sculptors. They wait a bit for the stone to show them it’s possibilities, and then they start hacking away.
Etc etc etc.
So it always struck me as very strange that we (composers) wait for a bit of godly breath and a gentle hand of god in our backs to support us along.
Look at the news and you see why god has other things on his mind right now.
Everybody who’s been in love knows what happy-hormones can do.
Making music or writing songs can produce happy-hormones too.
Every day I am at home, I go into my music room and every day I write a new song. The whole day is at the disposal of the missus and the children and who may think they need help with something. But from 6 to 7,30 pm is mine.
Your brain knows when to expect happy hormones. You’ll lose the fear of crappy songs, because no matter what, we all write crappy songs. And the good ones are buried under the crappy ones.
Write 10 in as many days and you’ll have 3 good ones.
You should give it a try.
Look at toddlers walking. Walking is difficult. We walk, don’t step in the dog shit, look at eye candy along the way and have time to keep a conversation going.
Doing it everyday makes things look dead easy.
Writing is no exception.
Everyday a bit too much?
Have a look at the prompt writing thread. Guaranteed for you to chuckle and guaranteed for you to think: hey, I can do that too. Yes, because you can.
And last: record every single tune you think up.
You never know, you know....
Really think you should give it a try. Talented enough...
Kind regards, Gus
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