I'm a musician (piano and guitar) and usually when I'm writing a song I just mess around and play different chords. Once I've got the melody down I just write lyrics that complement the chord progression I've made.
I also like to write short stories when I'm bored.
When you're going through an intensely emotional stage in your life, how do YOU transfer this anger/depression to a creative work? I can't seem to make a song that truly expresses my emotion because I'm too angry or depressed to actually work on a good chord progression.
I'm just asking your personal methods.
2007-07-19 09:25:25 · 4 answers · asked by Jon 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Well, I am not musically inclined, and I do not have the patience to go through the proper dynamics of putting things down and then putting them in order for a story, so I write journal entries, or letters to people. It gets it all out, and sometimes I mail them, sometimes I shred them, but I have to get them out or I will be a wreck. Congrats for your musical gift!
2007-07-19 09:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not musicly inclined. I can whistle! lol. but I do write alot. And the majority of what I write has to do with what my emotions were at that time. I don't really know how to explain it. You know what you are feeling, and it just seems to come out. Don't fight it, just let it flow out of you, if that makes any sense. You'll find that the words fit exactly what your mood is. Sometimes I have gone back and read some things and thought, "Gosh was I really feeling that way?" Sometimes, though, my mind wasn't in that right state that it takes to do that, I was distracted, and the words do not flow right, and do not really express what I was wanting to get across. You have to get in this "zone", for lack of a better word. It is the same thing that an artist has when they are creating a masterpeice. Your mind is totally focused on what you are feeling, the emotion that you want this peice of art to have. You are completely focused on what you are doing and feeling, and it seems like nothing could be able to shake that focus. You are just in the "zone". It could possibly just be one of those things that takes practice. If you are not used to expressing emotions through words or music, then it could be difficult. Have you ever tried freewriting? Just getting a pen and paper and writing the first things that come to your mind, and do not stop until the page is full. Don't think about what you're writing, just write. It will probably start out as just things like "apple fruit candle house fridge milk." But eventually you will start to see on the paper sentances being formed, and then eventually different thoughts that have to do with what you were feeling at that moment. Try it out. It can open up your mind to expressing itself more through words. Maybe once you figure out how to get in that "zone", it can help with your music, too. Good luck.
2007-07-19 09:50:38 · answer #2 · answered by Lindsey H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Write what you feel and feel what you write. I don't have the talent for music but I have friends who do. I find the words to express the way I feel or what someone else wants to express. They just come to me. Maybe if you develope the words first, the music will come to you. Get in touch with your heart.
2007-07-19 09:48:59 · answer #3 · answered by crazyginfizz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have an album, im not gunna tell you who i am but, just take the guitar, & play random notes & sing about everything thats happened then it will just come to you! trust me!
2007-07-19 09:34:12 · answer #4 · answered by Da_Fish_King 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋