How Do I Compose?
This is going to be a short article about how I compose my songs. I'm not going to get into much of the recording and mixing methods but rather talk about how I put the melodies together and decide on the tempo, scale and overall structure of the songs. Of course, the technologies and recording process heavily influence the composition, but I will try to stick mostly to composing rather than recording. How Do I Start? Well, it starts with "I wanna record another song" and this thought leads me to grab my guitar or turn on my laptop to start the fundamental structure of a new song idea. I don't really remember the melodies that come to me unfortunately, and when I start to build a song, it starts with thinking about the scale first. I first decide on the scale. The first scale that comes to my mind is E minor and then sometimes C minor.
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