What is being creative all about anyway ? Well, with guitars you can learn almost anything and everything online or through a good guitar teacher but one thing I personally feel no one can teach you is, how to be creative. I am not going to try and tell you do this many exercises for so many hours and one fine day you are going to start being creative, no but instead in this article I'm just going to share some ideas about what I personally feel about being creative is all about.
Writing a song is not an easy thing to do !! I think anyone who makes a statement like that should seriously look back at his works and start enjoying the process of making music again. Writing a song is all about having fun, you don't need to fit in the right chords at the right place, you don't always need words that rhyme, one thing that I feel is always important is to make sure that it comes straight from the heart, that makes it a whole lot easier. Learning how to play or rather I should say play good can often be more complicated than rocket science but making music and composing your own song is all about applying what you've learnt and having fun.
What to write about ? Well if you look back at some of the most popular songs of any generation, it's always been writen about something that was very close to the songwriter's heart. When ever I try and write a song, I always stick to a topic that's close to my heart, the closer the topic is, the more easier and fun the whole process becomes. It doesn't always have to be fun, it's not necessary that you're always writing songs about things that makes you happy, you can also write about things that have had a negative impact in your life but what's important is that whatever the topic is, the song should always strike a chord to your heart
Who do you write for ? Unless you're writing for your girl, I think it should always be about you. You are the first (and hopefully not the only one ) to enjoy your songs. Don't care about what someone else thinks or how someone's gonna take it. There will always be critics in this world. Let them do thier jobs and you do yours
Keep a track . We've all had our moments of getting drunk at the middle of the night and coming up with the most perfect song ever, or atleast it sounds like that to us. But there's one small problem, the next day morning you just can't remember wether you were playing Em or E maj , or even worse you don't even remember the tune. One thing that's always bailed me out in situations like this is my handy phone. Most of them don't have a great recorder but atleast everytime I record something I end up remembering it the next day morning. If it still sounds nice, I record it or else it's always good to have some memory
Well, I've been wanting to write about this for a long time so I did. I know some of the things are probably the most obvious things in the planet. But it's always the obvious things that always gets ignored. I hope that you guys enjoyed this. If any of you feel like picking up your guitar after reading this post and come with a song, please upload it somewhere and post them here, would love to hear them.
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