@LSchefman is an amazing composer, he's blessed, he's keen on detail, and he spended into sufficient gear.
Though I had over years piano lessons, was able to play reading the sheets, I quit playing the piano and taking lessons, soon I was infected by a virus named electric guitar in 1992. I started as an autodidact, had two years of guitar classes with a teacher prior he left for his university studies. He taught me to use my ears instead of playing strict like given by a tab. The fretboard offers different opportunities for the same tone or chord. It took me some years before I dared to use a guitar for my own music. I had of course "developed" some - what I called - finger trainings, likewise song fragments, licks or so. 2013 or so - whilst I was attending a class to become a hatha-yoga-teacher (aside my job) - I bought a DAW and started to record those ideas. I don't compose by writing chords or so on a sheet of paper. It's exploring the fretboard. Of course there is something I imagine in my mind. The core intent of recording is to conservate those "ideas" and to reset the brain for new approaches. For my fathers 75th and 77th birthday I dragged those tunes on a CD. He was amazed by this DIY present from my heart. He died last year, I kept my creativity. This year to her birthday my mother received a CD with the new songs since the passing away of my dad. The first tunes were impressed by the yoga practice.
My approach is to develop intro, verse, chorus, bridge, outro, shape the ideas as the basic, play the tune as a whole repeatedly, then I record the rhythm figure, add a bass line (I use an octaver effect for that to play it with an ordinary guitar), maybe I add some fills and/or a guitar solo. Up to now, I'm not able to arrange a drum track.
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Though I had over years piano lessons, was able to play reading the sheets, I quit playing the piano and taking lessons, soon I was infected by a virus named electric guitar in 1992. I started as an autodidact, had two years of guitar classes with a teacher prior he left for his university studies. He taught me to use my ears instead of playing strict like given by a tab. The fretboard offers different opportunities for the same tone or chord. It took me some years before I dared to use a guitar for my own music. I had of course "developed" some - what I called - finger trainings, likewise song fragments, licks or so. 2013 or so - whilst I was attending a class to become a hatha-yoga-teacher (aside my job) - I bought a DAW and started to record those ideas. I don't compose by writing chords or so on a sheet of paper. It's exploring the fretboard. Of course there is something I imagine in my mind. The core intent of recording is to conservate those "ideas" and to reset the brain for new approaches. For my fathers 75th and 77th birthday I dragged those tunes on a CD. He was amazed by this DIY present from my heart. He died last year, I kept my creativity. This year to her birthday my mother received a CD with the new songs since the passing away of my dad. The first tunes were impressed by the yoga practice.
My approach is to develop intro, verse, chorus, bridge, outro, shape the ideas as the basic, play the tune as a whole repeatedly, then I record the rhythm figure, add a bass line (I use an octaver effect for that to play it with an ordinary guitar), maybe I add some fills and/or a guitar solo. Up to now, I'm not able to arrange a drum track.
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