Composing and Songwriting

[dNate]

Well seeing as I am a music theory n00b, it usually just comes from one riff. I kinda play a riff and refine it and then in my head I kinda get an idea of how I want it to groove with drums and then I will just kinda jam on the riff and the work on the technique of playing.

Then from there I'll try to build a song around it.

For me lately, my issue is just taking the times to really crank out a full song.

I kinda have to allow myself to get into a zone.

 

[Repner]

For a while I decided the keys of my songs by playing dice. I had some d12 die from my RPG days and I used them for key changes and experimentation with atonality. Fun stuff, not very pleasing results though.

That's a pretty cool idea. I think I'll have to steal it. I have CD&D lying around somewhere