For Real Tho?
I realized something today.
I've been in a writing group for the last 10 years or so, and I’ve been subconsciously pretty convinced that real music started with an acoustic guitar. That’s just ingrained in me. It’s in there, whether I want it to be or not. I didn’t think it was correct, but that’s what I think I believed deep down, and those are two very different things.
The electronic writing that I’ve been doing lately, the jamming and improvising, really feels like writing. And for the first time in my life, I don’t think about it like, “real music?” I just don’t think like that anymore.
I don’t know if it’s experience, if it’s confidence, if it’s just time, but it kind of snuck up on me, and it’s great.
It’s hard not to listen to everybody. Song writing group FOR SURE: acoustic guitar + singer= real song. But I joined that singer-songwriter group to force myself to write, and that’s how the good ones started out. If you’re making pop music and you start with a guitar or piano, that’s a pretty legit way to do it. It worked for me.
But over the years, and especially over the last five years, I’ve figured out how to build electronic systems to crank out a decent amount of music. And then when I’m done with that system, I know how to make another one.
So I don’t really get worried about writer’s block. I’m not scared that it will end. I even kind of look forward to the next end and seeing what the next system is. Like writing a book-- in control but along for the ride too.
I’m deep into a system now, and I just love it. It’s fun. I enjoy jamming, and I look forward to writing with it. It feels as real as anything I’ve ever done.
So there it is. I’ll take that.