

45 Minutes of Creativity

Grab your guitar and put some energy behind what you’re going to do.

Make sure you’re in a good state of mind.

A good way to do this is to listen to some of your favorite music.

I’ve been listening to a lot of Mozart and Chopin lately and I’ve gotten some melodic motives from these guys.

I’ve also been listening to a lot of As I Lay Dying, Joe Stump, George Bellas and Machine Head. Machine Head are on there journey towards their 25th anniversary tour of their first album “Burn My Eyes.”

So check out their Instagram and their website cus it’s bangin!

As I Lay Dying just released a single “Refined,” and its the best thing since sliced cheese.

This shit is heavy and purely awesome. Brutal riffing and vocals as well.

All in As I Lay Dying fashion. Their video is absolutely amazing – check this video out right here.

Lyrics are there too!

So like I said…get some inspiration and grab your guitar because were about to do 45 minutes of creativity.

Now all of this is really up to you, you don’t have to follow any rules. Really… there are no rules, just 45 minutes of working on riffing and ideas.

So if you want to work on lead, fine, if you want to work on rhythm – it’s all up to you.

I’m not in charge

You are!

This is what worked for me and what always works for me and I just like to share it.

So I started riffing with my guitar tuned down.

I had this urge to tune low to D flat and so I did and I came up with some pretty nasty stuff.

I was lacking some inspiration so I turned on my drum beats app and it was at 200 and I came up with three or four riffs and then another 3 to 4 for a couple of song ideas.

Then I went down to 70 bpm and I worked in 6/8 time.

I recorded everything into my phone.

I’ve been doing this a lot lately and I really, really love it.

Instead of thinking about scales or what I got to learn, I just look for ways to satisfy what I want to hear.

So if I hear something that sounds from a major key and I don’t like it, I’ll bring it a half step down or if I don’t like the IV cord I’ll bring it a half step down and then hammer on to the IV if you know what I mean.

In other words…don’t be restrained by scales.

Riffs change key all the time and so do melodies, so this is really an exercise to satisfy the soul.

The key point I want you to realize here is that riffs change key …all the time …and so do melodies.

So when creating music, because that’s what we’re doing here, don’t be constrained by rules.

It’s more fun that way.

And that’s why we got into this in the first place.

Isnt it?

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