I often think up a tune from the top of my head.
When I sit down to try and figure out a song, it sounds derivative and forced.
The notation software programs would probably defect with what I do. I have an interest in film music also, which often does'nt have a strict song form. I'm here basically to learn to tighten up song structure doing the 3 to 4 minute verse chorus song, and learn more about recording.
I could do something of a standard blues song, learning the scale. Which really is'nt hard to do. But I would rather be off kilter because it starts sounding like something I have heard a million times before otherwise.
More like muzak than anything artistic.
I can write at a very simple level the particuliar chords and measures of a song.
I wonder how the notation software would read with something really off kilter?
Or if that is'nt even a factor.
There are some notes I hear I don't think I have ever heard before.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but has every note there has been been accounted for, and how would anyone know that?
In a lot of alternative rock there are all kinds of bent notes and the object often is making up chords.
Well, at least that was the case more in the beginning of the scene.

Matt

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