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05-18-2004, 08:04 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | |  GAH! Writer's block!
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I've run into some serious writer's block, ladies and gentlemen. A fellow TBer asked me to write a song with these requirements: it has to be in A minor, 80 beats per minute, and in 13/8. I was able to whip up the first two minutes of the song pretty quickly, and then... nothing. Absolutely nothing. I've been working on it today for about 5 hours, and haven't added a single thing. I can't seem to figure out where to go with it at all. I don't know if I want to make it some long, drawn out prog rock epic, or keep it short and sweet (like 8 minutes or so  ). Ugh!
Here's what I've got so far: Asshat
What do you guys do when you get writer's block? I'm willing to try just about anything at this point to get inspired again. |
05-18-2004, 08:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Knoxville, TN | | | Make it short and sweet.
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05-18-2004, 08:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Phoenix | | | So was this some sort of challenge or something?
For me anyway, the best thing for writers block is to walk away. Forget it for a while, locate a cerveza, and listen to something the complete opposite of whatever style you're trying to write. Although for you're particular style, the opposite would probably be blink-182, and i'd never recommend that to anyone. hmm...
If it was a TalkBass challenge, I say turn it into a true talkbass challenge. Turn it into a musical story time thread.
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05-18-2004, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange I've run into some serious writer's block, ladies and gentlemen. A fellow TBer asked me to write a song with these requirements: it has to be in A minor, 80 beats per minute, and in 13/8. I was able to whip up the first two minutes of the song pretty quickly, and then... nothing. Absolutely nothing. I've been working on it today for about 5 hours, and haven't added a single thing. I can't seem to figure out where to go with it at all. I don't know if I want to make it some long, drawn out prog rock epic, or keep it short and sweet (like 8 minutes or so ). Ugh!
Here's what I've got so far: Asshat
What do you guys do when you get writer's block? I'm willing to try just about anything at this point to get inspired again. | How is it you're a musical genius again?
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05-18-2004, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Brendan How is it you're a musical genius again? | Are you kidding me? I am so lame it hurts. |
05-18-2004, 09:37 PM
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05-18-2004, 09:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Knoxville, TN | | | He could also try killing some kittens. That usually helps me when I'm stuck on a design.
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05-18-2004, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Eyescream He could also try killing some kittens. That usually helps me when I'm stuck on a design. | I'll pretend you didn't say that and bid you good day.
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05-18-2004, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Blisshead I'll pretend you didn't say that and bid you good day. |
oh so milking them is okay but killing them isn't!??
hurumph mister double standard  
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05-18-2004, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Wrong Robot oh so milking them is okay but killing them isn't!??
hurumph mister double standard | That's what I'm thinking!
Also, I'm gonna pretend you know that I'm not talking about actually killing kittens, and really know that I'm talking about the M word. :-D
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05-18-2004, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Eyescream That's what I'm thinking!
Also, I'm gonna pretend you know that I'm not talking about actually killing kittens, and really know that I'm talking about the M word. :-D | I know! I know! jeez forget a smilie here and there.... 
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05-18-2004, 10:33 PM
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05-18-2004, 10:41 PM
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It's copywrited, but listen and feel ... Zombie Flapjack, by Stefan Gislason
and write some more ...
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05-18-2004, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Blisshead I know! I know! jeez forget a smilie here and there.... | Oh, well that's alright. Carry on.
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05-18-2004, 10:58 PM
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Thor... have you been doing drugs? This stuff is whack! |
05-19-2004, 01:09 AM
|  | <-- That guy looks like me, but old. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | I'm still weirded out by "making cheese while wearing lingerie"...Are you going to use milk from the cats? 
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05-19-2004, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Bard2dbone I'm still weirded out by "making cheese while wearing lingerie"...Are you going to use milk from the cats? | What else would we use?
Duh.
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05-19-2004, 08:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Wausau, WI | | | Just walk away from it.
Do something completely unrelated to it. Eventually something will pop into your head unexpectedly. The reason you have a block is that you are too immersed in it right now and have lost objectivity.
Getting away from it for a spell, will help you regain objectivity and see it as something new and fresh again.
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05-19-2004, 09:12 AM
| | Guest | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Westminster Ca. | | | Change up the Time Signatures. |
05-19-2004, 09:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bay Area, CA | | | I was having a bad case of writer's block last week. My band is writing new material and I was trying to write a new riff and just could not play anything that I was happy with. I tried a few different things like putting it down and trying to come back to it later, listening to different kinds of music, etc. The thing that ended up working for me was actually finding a new band in the same genre (metal) that I was trying to write in. It was inspiring to just hear some NEW music and see a 'new' perspective on metal. After listening to the band's cd all day at work, I went home and wrote the best riff I have probably written to date. I just needed a new source of inspiration. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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