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Namuwrimo

November 14th, 2008 Olli Leave a comment Go to comments

No, I haven’t posted about this before, but yes I’m working on NaMuWriMo as well and quite successfully so far. As a challenge I’m trying to compose all on my guitar and not from my computer, this gives me the advantages that I get to pick up on my guitar skills, my knowledge of chords, etc.

Anyway, I got the basic chords down for both verse as well as chorus and even the melody is starting to come along nicely. I’m still working on the rhythm and the lyrics, but I suppose I could have that done before the end of the month.

Biggest problems so far is to write a lyrics. What the fuck do you write about anyway? Most lyrics are about love and death, agreed, but I don’t have problems with either, so I’m looking in to other things that annoy me, so far still no luck, but we’ll get there.

Another problem is that I only work on the music when I’m alone. For some reason I feel terrible insecure about it so far, so I don’t want to share too much until it at least has some shape or form and before I can actually play it. *sighs*

Oh well, I think it’s a great exercise though :)

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  1. Deus
    November 14th, 2008 at 14:39 | #1

    Oh well, I’m still stuck on having 4 chords, all played 8 times per measure…
    That’s all I have: 4 measures for one instrument. Every time I try to expand on it, try to make a melody, change some rhythm or what, it just sound like absolute crap…

  2. November 17th, 2008 at 23:02 | #2

    Perhaps picking different chords might fix your problem? I abandoned my initial scheme as well, and although my current thing is far from decent, I figured it will get gradually better as long as I spend some time improving it :) .

    Another method could of course be to just get into the shower, think of those 4 chords, and start singing like it’s your last day with voice ;) .

  3. November 17th, 2008 at 23:02 | #3

    Perhaps picking different chords might fix your problem? I abandoned my initial scheme as well, and although my current thing is far from decent, I figured it will get gradually better as long as I spend some time improving it :) .

    Another method could of course be to just get into the shower, think of those 4 chords, and start singing like it’s your last day with voice ;) .

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