Being innovative in music might seem like a difficult task. Trends are hard to predict, and understanding what will work and what won’t is something simply no one can do for sure.
Great artists and innovators have been rejected for years for not being good enough or trendy enough, before making a major breakthrough and changing the world forever. What they all have in common is that they’ve taken the time (consciously or unconsciously) to understand the fundamentals of what has been proven to work again and again before.
True innovation comes by understanding what has come before and building on to that. So in this article, I will go through some concepts in music that have been proven to work time and time again, and help you use those concepts to push your music further.