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Where Do Your Song Ideas Come From??

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Response to Where Do Your Song Ideas Come From?? 2024-12-04 23:51:56


The concepts of my music come from all kinds of different places. I've made plenty of songs out of messing about with a sample or synth with no clear direction, and I've once made a song by exaggerating how I felt while I battled a cold. However, what makes me finish songs is attaching a theme to them. I'll try to get clear inspiration from somewhere, whether that is a series of reference tracks, a mood, a place, or even a whole story. For example, I made a liquid DnB song as a tribute to OPN's Replica, a french house song in which I invented my own old-school sample inspired by a Persian pop song, and a krushfunk song focused in achieving a stereotypical desert level vibe.


It doesn't happen reliably. I can't count on myself to finish every idea I have, but I can feel when an idea is great and I'll almost hyperfocus on it when inspiration strikes.

Response to Where Do Your Song Ideas Come From?? 2024-12-05 07:31:20


I think my ideas came from many many rhythm game (e.g. Arcaea, Maimai, Thapster (died thai game)) and game I played often (Geometry Dash, Minecraft) and also I love Vocaloid music!


The idea is like some fast, aesthetic, bittersweet and and unstable things like electronic music.


「 Polygenre music of storyteller 」

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Response to Where Do Your Song Ideas Come From?? 2024-12-06 20:11:14


At 11/23/24 11:03 AM, OVERSCORE wrote:So recently, I’ve been thinking more and more about what inspires our music. And I want your answers! So you fool around in your DAW until a cool sound gives you a whole track? Or is it a bit more.. abstract?

I’ll go first, because my inspiration is definitely more on the abstract side. I think well in terms of the abstract… each song of mine is basically a reflection of one moment where I was in a vivid emotional state. Everything I was seeing and feeling goes into the music as best I can convey it. And I’m also trying to find the melody in everyday places and things around me.

SO. What about you guys??


really anywhere, but mainly from a person who’s username starts with W, and ends with E


I like making music because making music is something I like

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Response to Where Do Your Song Ideas Come From?? 2024-12-06 22:56:06


At 12/6/24 08:11 PM, Creeperforce24 wrote:
At 11/23/24 11:03 AM, OVERSCORE wrote:So recently, I’ve been thinking more and more about what inspires our music. And I want your answers! So you fool around in your DAW until a cool sound gives you a whole track? Or is it a bit more.. abstract?

I’ll go first, because my inspiration is definitely more on the abstract side. I think well in terms of the abstract… each song of mine is basically a reflection of one moment where I was in a vivid emotional state. Everything I was seeing and feeling goes into the music as best I can convey it. And I’m also trying to find the melody in everyday places and things around me.

SO. What about you guys??

really anywhere, but mainly from a person who’s username starts with W, and ends with E


Does this mystery artist’s name happen to rhyme with “Potter Claim”


you guys like my tunes?

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Response to Where Do Your Song Ideas Come From?? 2024-12-06 23:13:50


At 12/6/24 10:56 PM, OVERSCORE wrote:
At 12/6/24 08:11 PM, Creeperforce24 wrote:
At 11/23/24 11:03 AM, OVERSCORE wrote:So recently, I’ve been thinking more and more about what inspires our music. And I want your answers! So you fool around in your DAW until a cool sound gives you a whole track? Or is it a bit more.. abstract?

I’ll go first, because my inspiration is definitely more on the abstract side. I think well in terms of the abstract… each song of mine is basically a reflection of one moment where I was in a vivid emotional state. Everything I was seeing and feeling goes into the music as best I can convey it. And I’m also trying to find the melody in everyday places and things around me.

SO. What about you guys??

really anywhere, but mainly from a person who’s username starts with W, and ends with E

Does this mystery artist’s name happen to rhyme with “Potter Claim”


Yes! As well as Barter Train


I like making music because making music is something I like

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Response to Where Do Your Song Ideas Come From?? 2024-12-14 21:14:00


My process is to fire up Ableton, drop a Drum Rack and simple percussion, and tinker with a bass or pad sound. I usually end up with multiple takes of something before I move forward, and I’ve literally spent days or weeks on something that is 15-20 seconds long because it just wasn’t right. Once it hits though, I’m usually done with the track itself in a few hours to a couple days. Sometimes I end up turning one thing into multiple others and save them as a different project. Always have 20-30 ideas just sitting around for a session where I forgot what the hell they were.


EQ/Mastering I usually do by ear with pro-q3 by grouped elements.


Yeah, pretty basic. Occasionally I’ll be a little motivated and hit the pavement with rubber burning already, and in those cases, I usually pump out some interesting things.

Response to Where Do Your Song Ideas Come From?? 2024-12-16 00:38:38


Dreams. The things I see, hear, and experience day to day. Emotion.


Music use to be my voice when I was a selective mute as a young child. And it still remains as such today.

Response to Where Do Your Song Ideas Come From?? 2024-12-19 16:30:57


I just write about anything that I think.