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What do you tend to start with?
When you compose, what's the first thing you start with?
Chord changes?
A melody?
A riff?
A rhythm or groove?
Something else (wierd noises, a la Adrian Belew?)?
Personally I keep it pretty varied. I've been experimenting a lot with percussive techniques and drum programming the past few months, so I've developed a lot of ideas starting with rhythms and grooves. When I solo, I like to approach it thematically, starting with a couple of simple themes and developing them, so that approach is quite natural for me when I compose riffs and melodies. Sometimes when I'm practicing playing over some cool changes, a melody will begin to suggest itself, and something I just wrote as a practice progression will become a full on melody, or chord-melody.
Other times I just pick up the acoustic, tune it to an open chord, and put my fingers on the neck until something cool happens...
What's everyone else's approach(es)?
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