https://reddit.com/link/vhxowy/video/8dx26hjh14791/player
I have been trying to write my first song on and off for the past year or so. Frustratingly, I seem to always be able to make a nice basic loop but can NEVER progress the song into the second portion.
Every time I try to continue the song, it sounds like a completely different song that was just spliced together.
Here I have attached something I have written. You can hear at the end of the song, it wants to progress, but I just draw a blank. Everything I try writing after this sounds like absolute trash. I just don't know what to do...
The only thing I really don't want to do, is just replaying the same melody with different chords (Or vice versa). I don't mind doing so to help brainstorm different ideas, but I really want the song to progress into something else.
I have tried many things:
- Writing something regardless of if it sounds bad, and refining later
- Repeating melody and playing something new with it, or changing it up slightly.
- Taking two separate melodies and trying to interlace them
- Using risers/silence to try and give a feeling to the transition
- Watching hundreds of videos showing people's processes, and how to convert loops to songs. (90 percent of the time, it seems people just have enough experience to not worry about this step.)
- Listening to other songs and seeing what they do
- Many other random things.
Any help from more experience composers would be amazing. Especially if you also struggled with this same problem in the beginning. This is quite literally the most frustrating thing I have ever done.
Also, if there are any services to where I could send this song in, and have someone else complete the second portion of it, I would be incredibly interested in something like that. I just want to hear what would be possible, so I can have some inspiration on how to finish it myself. If that makes sense...
Thank you!
Submitted June 22, 2022 at 02:41AM by redeyes222 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/vhxowy/could_really_use_some_help_on_my_first_song/?utm_source=ifttt