RenegadeDave
Huge nerd
I'm one of those players who spends WAY too much time on technique. I've practiced to click tracks, but my new preferred method is to take passages of songs I like that are difficult in Guitar Pro and slow it down on repeat and play it repetitively (same type of deal as a metronome, but practicing something else).
On to the issue. I'm a perfectionist by nature, so for the first couple of years since I started playing more seriously (started in on guitar after a 10 year hiatus in summer of 2006). My technical ability is nearly there, and I know I should be writing. When I just noodle, I can come up with some pretty stock thrash riffs and decent rhythm tracks, no problem. But the brick wall I always slam against is composing melodies.
Do you have any references that helped you start writing melodies? Books would be great, any web articles are great too. For background: I know all the modes of the major scale, I can look at charts to figure out keys and the like, but I need help practicing my creativity. Obviously it's not fluid.
Back to the perfectionist bit, I'm terrified of writing "bad" music, but I recognize that song writing is like any other skill, you get better at it the more you use it. I need to try harder to listen to that little voice inside of me and actually create rather than just be a mimic.
So does anyone have a really good book they can recommend? I have the berklee guitar method book, but have had a hard time actually sitting down and practicing it. I live in a small apartment with a wife and a parrot. My wife is a terrible distraction to sitting down and practicing from the book (working @ my DAW w/ big studio monitor ear phones faced away from her, she typically leaves me alone). Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance guys!
On to the issue. I'm a perfectionist by nature, so for the first couple of years since I started playing more seriously (started in on guitar after a 10 year hiatus in summer of 2006). My technical ability is nearly there, and I know I should be writing. When I just noodle, I can come up with some pretty stock thrash riffs and decent rhythm tracks, no problem. But the brick wall I always slam against is composing melodies.
Do you have any references that helped you start writing melodies? Books would be great, any web articles are great too. For background: I know all the modes of the major scale, I can look at charts to figure out keys and the like, but I need help practicing my creativity. Obviously it's not fluid.
Back to the perfectionist bit, I'm terrified of writing "bad" music, but I recognize that song writing is like any other skill, you get better at it the more you use it. I need to try harder to listen to that little voice inside of me and actually create rather than just be a mimic.
So does anyone have a really good book they can recommend? I have the berklee guitar method book, but have had a hard time actually sitting down and practicing it. I live in a small apartment with a wife and a parrot. My wife is a terrible distraction to sitting down and practicing from the book (working @ my DAW w/ big studio monitor ear phones faced away from her, she typically leaves me alone). Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance guys!