Black Anathema

Ja m

Well... that might be how you compose metal like Black or Death Metal. But I meant more like this kind of metal. Its not all screaming and stuff but its symphonic metal (at least Wikipedia says so).Our first song in fact sounds pretty much like Nightwish.

Well... I think that if you don't stick into any specific genre of metal. I mean playing both heavier and lighter stuff... you get quite different songs.

Well... what kind of music do you suggest to listen/compose then?? Classic?? Pop??

So the story is this... I have an amateur band with few of my friends. And I ended up to be our composer (at least most of the time). The thing is that we are making metal music (mainly power-metal) and I only have classical training behind me and almost none composing experience. Well... we completed one song witch I really liked, but I composed it pretty accidentally :D (just played something whitch sounded good). After our first song I started really compose and I made some quite cool sounding peaces (at least I think so :D). Now when I have composed a while the songs I'm making are sounding quite similar... So what can I do to compose songs that differ from each other?? Any idea is welcome :D

Hello composers! I'm quite lost with composing, I don't know where to start. I played piano for 3 years so I know how to read sheets and I know how to play piano, but composing is somethin that I have never really trained. So could enyone give me some advise where to start?