Practicing an instrument or learning a new plugin can be fairly straightforward.
You run your scales, or you learn what a threshold is, and you repeat until it is memorized. This type of practice is objective and has a clear goal in mind. However, sometimes, your goal is not so clear.
Writing music is a subjective skill. So how do you learn to write music well? While there are foundational elements like chords, scales, harmony, progressions, rhythms, etc. There are countless combinations of those foundational elements that go into making a song, melody, groove, beat, and more.
Today, we will cover three approaches to practice writing music that engages with our foundational elements creatively. These approaches will either set a focus or a restriction that will challenge us to think in new creative ways!
These are the following approaches we will look at:
- Limiting note choice
- Focusing on layers
- Using new rhythms