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Black Velvet Lace
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11/5/2008 8:42:20 PM
Artist's Block
I don't know what's wrong with me, I had fully intended to spend my break time from IAC getting new music together. My sound guys are finally situated and have the time. And yet, I've done nothing.
Anyone else ever hit a wall and just stay plastered to it????
~Lace~
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Duane Flock
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11/5/2008 8:50:06 PM
---- Updated 11/5/2008 8:51:30 PM
Hi Lace!
I've hit a wall When I was plastered, and kinda slid downwards.........
For a good part of this year I've been really struggling to come up with new stuff. Then I started asking people to do collabs and I suddenly have been coming up with great ideas while having that person in mind. Kinda like a customized tune if you will.
D.
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never never band
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11/5/2008 9:22:33 PM
well,I wrote a nice chord progression for a lovely poem someone here wrote..
:-)
But I Haven't put it to track yet..
As for my own material, I cant write a song to save my soul this past few months..
Lots of guitar practice, several neat instrumental ideas and a bit of verse here and there but somehow nothing really congeals.
I think I'm just stressed out, working too much, teaching all the time and trying to stay afloat as a self employed artist in a crumbling economy..
heh..
I'm sure I'll be fine really, but my inspiration comes in tid bits and snippets, nothing realized or organized....
But I've had this sort of block before, a dark night of the soul, a chapel perilous ....
a prolonged bad mood..
;)
I sense some light on the horizon at least..
---}-@
P.
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11/6/2008 4:44:48 AM
I'll tell you what's wrong with you Lace ... you're a girl and as you well know ...
... girls just wanna have fun ! They just wanna ... they just wanna ... oh oh oh
I'm still plastered to the wall I hit quite a few years back, I've almost got the full use of my expressions on the bottom part of my face... soon I'll be able to upload a full faced photo of myself though it might be a bit stiff !
Aside from my goofy addition to your thread, I am sincerely looking forward to your future recordings ... are they gonna be originals ?
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Richard Scotti
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11/6/2008 5:44:21 AM
I have a friend who never gives a predictable answer to a question and sometimes he's just down right cryptic. He a great singer songwriter with much accumulated wisdom in many areas. I was once complaining to him about writer's block that I was going through and he said: "There are plenty of interesting things you could write about. You just don't want to reveal them". That was his short e-mail reply and it really made me think that perhaps we intentionally block ourselves from expressing important emotions because those things might be too painful or too revealing and writing about them might make us feel too exposed. It's easy to write a "throwaway" song. You just take an easy but catchy riff, put some cliche words to it you have a song. But obviously that's not the song you really want to write. But if you get in touch with your subconscious you might find a whole bunch of deeper topics to write about and once those words were on paper they would give you a clue as to what kind of music to put to them. The more meaningful the words, the more complex and interesting the music will be to fit those words.
But if you start with the music, starting on a minor chord instead of the major chord that starts most songs. Minor keys inspire all kinds of atmospheric words. Toss around musical ideas that are different from you usually write. Go off in a new direction. Sometimes it's the detours that lead you home.
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Tony Vani and Debbie Hoskin
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11/6/2008 8:15:17 AM
Go for a walk in the woods all alone or with your dog. (if you don't have a dog, you can borrow one of mine) Dig down deep, into your emotions. Capture an emotion that seems to be speaking the loudest. Start humming, let anything come out. Do this for a while until you feel you are channeling something. Then start fine tuning it. deb
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Hop On Pop
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11/6/2008 8:20:46 AM
Since early 2005, I've completed maybe 4 songs.
And that includes songs that I have partially written before then.
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midriff
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11/6/2008 8:48:18 AM
---- Updated 11/6/2008 12:02:05 PM
Well just look on the bright side, you may have had writer's block for the last 30 years but at least you ain't gonna suffer writer's cramp - and every gal needs a sound man behind her and most off them will prefer you to keep your mouth shut j/k ;)
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11/6/2008 11:03:36 AM
I can say I haven't had a writer's block as long as I remember. My problem is finding time to write it all down and document my thoughts.
Sometimes you can write an exceptional piece if you force yourself NOT to write for a time, it all comes crashing out.
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Hugh Hamilton
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11/6/2008 12:03:49 PM
Don't get me started (lol)...get plastered then pick up an instrument and see what happens.
Or not - SamCat already gave us Whiskey Symphony...
Songwriting for me turns out to involve alignment of celestial bodies, arrangements of "to-do" items on schedules, and hormones. I think.
Good luck!
;)
H
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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11/6/2008 1:11:45 PM
Lace
One of my boys is stuck at the moment also---hasn't written for a year-----it seems to me he keeps finding excuses not to ----somehow he tricks himself out of that space where creativity flows-----
My advice find a GREAT song to cover ___and do your own interpretation and arrangement ---once ewe start DOING IT-----the rest will surely follow?
love and peace
Robbie
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The Man With No Band
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11/6/2008 1:52:19 PM
Just put a picture of that beautiful face of yours in front of you Lace ....
It works for me ! ... (not my face .... your face) ... :)
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Black Velvet Lace
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11/6/2008 6:18:40 PM
God I love you all, I'm on the fly right now, but I'll be back with individual comments......
MUAH
xox
~Lace~
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Auset
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11/7/2008 7:20:28 AM
Hi again Lace -
For me, my problem isn't getting new ideas... they're constant... my problem is not having time to actually complete my songs. I can't tell you how many half baked songs I have in the oven... waiting patiently to be finished.
And what often happens, is when I do get some time to sit down with half baked tunes, a brand new song will push its way in... and shout "no, work on me, work on me".
perhaps a prayer to the Unblock Fairy will help : )
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Black Velvet Lace
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11/23/2008 8:14:49 AM
Whoa, had to post a topic to find this thread (and my blog) again. My dad was just released from the hospital, operated on for colon cancer, we're waiting for the path report to see if anything further needs to be done. Anyway, I lost the thread in the midst of all that and with him situated for now (say a prayer he doesn't have to get chemo/radiation) maybe I'll have more time to spend here amd there in my life.
Duane, LOL were you and Hugo at the same party :D Glad to hear you're up a running again with new music. Meanwhile I just heard BBE isn't playing on my site, so I'll have to check out what's up with that. It's always sumethin....
Never, didn't see that chord progression on your site, did I miss it??????? I hear ya about being stressed out, where do you teach? I'm looking forward to your horizon ;)
Anjuli, you look so lovely from the eyes up one can only imagine how much more beautiful from the eyes down :D Future recordings will include only one original written many years ago in collab with Never, and more covers. I'm not a songwriter, and so this block is even more ridiculous. I mean how can one be vapid when they are just redoing somebody else's work!!!!!!!!!!!!????????!!!!!!!!!!!
Richard I think what your friend revealed is probably one of the deepest reasons I don't songwrite. I barely reveal myself here in postings, I make a terrible blogger, I'm just too private I guess. My forte has been gigging live as a singer/musician in cover bands. I can live through other's music and feel a flood of emotions through their words. I've published poetry, but didn't feel that the prose lends itself for musical application. Maybe I should just follow your friends advice.
Deb, you purple haired troll you, ;) I spent so much time walking the woods as a kid/adolescent, if I lost all mobility I'd probably have enough memories to pull on from those long ago times. There really is something to be seriously said for spending time surrounded by nature. I'm going to at least meditate on the walks and see if your suggestion sparks something.
Todd, then since 2005 you are four songs ahead of me.
Midriff, are you related to Shania Twain? :P Seriously I've been blessed by soundmen who are not chauvinists. (Lucky for THEM). I am such a gadget hound they are usually amused by my interest in all things technical from watching them solder broken wires to peering around the inside of speakers. At some point they eventually all got around to seeing me as *one of the guys* which can be a good/bad thing.
Berlin, are you related to Ben Affleck? :P Seriously your pic does look like him.. you are lucky to be prolific. Rock on...
Hugo you will laff and laff when I tell you I tried to play the guitar from ages 10 to 17, unsuccessfully, but I really tried. (I played piano from age 4). Then one magical night in my freshman college dorm, in the midst of a party and several beers (maybe a few shots- can't recall that clearly) l picked up a friends guitar and lo and behold.. I could play it! I was 18, maybe.. hormones had something to do with it :P
Robbie, I did actually find that GREAT song to cover and with a few tweaks (quite a few if you count leaving out the entire rocked out part of BBE :P) I ended up HERE with all of you great folks. My next songs will undoubtedly be more covers. I just hope no one here minds that. Maybe with enough imitating (gah wasn't 20 years enough?) I will bust out and write one of my own.....
Sam, you kill me.. I will keep that in mind knowing fully well it will have to be late at night, preferably completely dark, or maybe by candlelight, as the.. morning sun when it's in my face really shows my age/wrinkles/liver spots/furrows/acne/LOLOLOLOLololololOLOLOLolololollllllllll
Auset I will start a prayer to your Unblock Fairy ASAP!
You are all an inspiration to me, really. Yesterday I finally went down to my soundguys studio to start dumping the programming I did into his computer to begin the recordings (all covers.. two for Christmas.. alas but it's a start) and THE SEQUENCER WOULDNT TRANSFER THE MIDI INFO.. WHATS WITH THIS?!?!?!?!?!?! ::tears hair out:::
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