Change up the creative process

Try to write music in different ways. I kind of naturally do this because I have different ideas from different things. Sometimes I think of ideas while playing piano or playing guitar. Sometimes I just think of ideas in my head and want to make them into music. Sometimes I come up with ideas while messing around in my DAW (Reason or Pro Tools).

It can help you think of new musical ideas that get you out of making the same sounding songs. The ideas I’ve thought of on piano are different than the ones that I’ve thought of on guitar or in a DAW. Neither is better than the other. They’re different ideas.

So whatever you do to write music. Try to write music outside of that context. Get out of that one habit. Maybe you’ll get some inspiration from a different instrument. Maybe it’s a blank piece of manuscript paper.

Whatever it is you’ll find new ideas in different places.

ISJ