| About composition.
I don't do much of it and for good reason. This reason seems retarded to me, that's why I need some input from other people on here who compose their own music.
I have only written one song in my three years of guitar playing and even that song to me feels like it's missing a hell of a lot. Now, I've written a good many riffs, some decent, some good, some bad. Problem is as I make these riffs no matter how good/bad/technical/catchy/groovy whatever, I get tired of them and as such think they're bad and scrap them. Another problem I run into is I always feel like the things I write sound too much like something I listen to a little too specifically. Like I wrote this one riff the other day that I was going to use as the main riff of another composition but it sounded like the chorus riff from Cephalic Carnage's Endless Cycle of Violence except with a few runs and little extra bells and whistles but I couldn't get "ENDLESS, ENDLESS CYCLE OF VIOLENCE." out of my head when I played it. The third thing I run into is writing a riff that I like a lot and then not being able to write a complementary riff to it to keep it going. I don't mean like theme variation, I mean a different riff that sounds like it belongs being played in succession of the previous one and vice versa.
Am I crazy or does everyone run into these things? I just can't seem to write something that sounds like me that's actually good and non-generic. Thoughts? |