Concrete noggin!

Well, I'll just jump right in it then! I've had this piece sitting around in my unfinished folder for a few months now... It's supposed to be a sort of magical wintery sounding piece... It's crazy, everytime I try to sit and work on it, it feels like someone empties a cement truck into my brain so I just give up and go watch tv... I'm at what seems to me like it would be the end of a phrase? (I don't have any formal music education so bear with my butchered terminology) I feel like there should be more but it just won't come out... it's like im "creatively constipated" >.> Bad analogy... Anyway, any suggestions or tips would be appreciated. :sadtears:

Thank you in advance!

~Solburnt

welcome winter.MID

I think that it's just that the first idea of your piece is complete... you can move somewhere else (a second idea).

You need to grab your piece of music on paper, just go sit somewhere quiet without the TV, and let yourself hear what you have written in your mind. If you can't do that, go play it until you can. So then you can think your way into the next bit, trying to remember what it sounded like in your mind.

Either that or start something new.

Well, I spent a few hours on it this evening and changed a few chords and added some dynamics, got a bit farther trying your suggestions, then became stuck again. Tell me what you think of it so far (I'm still working on it ^^). I'm at a kind of crossroads here and need some advice. Should I a) bring back a little of the tempo and melody from the beginning or b) continue with the slow expressive part for a while and expand on my current melodies?

I look forward to your replies!

~Solburnt

welcome winter.MID