Being creative

I’ve started working on some production music to upload to some non-exclusive music libraries and many of the ideas that I’ve been using aren’t that new to me.

But that doesn’t mean that I’m not being creative.

I’m thinking of what will work given the context of what I’m writing. I’m being creative in a different way than thinking of a new idea or an interesting musical idea for me to play with. There’s a specific context that the music needs to fit into and whatever music I write needs to fit into that context.

The chord progressions are fairly simple. The arrangements are fairly simple. The form is consistent.

But within those constraints I need to be creative.

Even if you have constraints, whether they are artificial (in my case) or because you’re working on a specific project, be creative within those constraints.

ISJ