Composing gets EASY if you know THIS! - The CANVAS method

[@beatrixguitar]

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[@bmorewisely]

@@beatrixguitar Limitations are important. In music. A blank piece of sheet music is COMPLEX. Infinite possibilities. 8 bars, 1 thru 3 and 4 thru 6 yada yada ... Is structure. Is limitation. But most importantly its Compositional Progress! Architecture (i.e. limitations) Absorbs Complexity. So, we can make progress, whether its music, art, or just about any creative endeavor.

[@DanielNistico]

Hey Beatrix, you are a great host, asking very thoughtful questions and framing things so well. Thanks for having me on, I'm truly honoured 🙏 Hope our conversation will inspire many more guitarists to give composing a go!!!

[@beatrixguitar]

Hey Daniel, thank you for being my guest on the show! Our conversation was incredibly helpful for me, I can't wait to share the piece I wrote after we talked :)

[@DanielNistico]

@@beatrixguitar Amazing, can't wait to hear it!!

[@michelle-psl4441]

Very interesting. I write songs on steel string acoustic but never thought about creating compositions on classical guitar. The parallel period is like verse-chorus, verse-chorus; then comes the bridge to break up the repeated pattern of the "parallel period".

[@andressaborio823]

¡Great conversation! I saw an interview of Vladimir Horowitz saying that even though he was not a composer he had studied composition and that helped him a lot to understand better the music he played. It is a different mindset and way to approach and think about music...

[@jaybonny1954]

New sub sick vid-I’m obsessed with this topic. However I’d still argue that far more important than planning is honoring your masters and seeing yourself as one via the sheer intensity of your commitment and communion with said masters

[@beatrixguitar]

Welcome on board, thanks for your valuable feedback!

[@OldManSilencer]

I always enjoy oh sheet but this is a favorite episode lots of nuggets to work with.

[@beatrixguitar]

Glad you think so, this conversation gave me so much clarity to explore composing!

[@OldManSilencer]

@@beatrixguitar I basically immediately wrote some ideas out and started writing little melodic ideas it was a very fun day of guitar today. I’ve been a bit in the slog of practice right now and felt a lot of simple joy just exploring ideas and going where the music took me. I can’t do that every day but it was nice to do a pattern break prompted by the ideas in this podcast.

[@aspirativemusicproduction2135]

I was making up stuff in my head before I ever knew anything or touched an instrument. When I was four I wanted piano but no one would buy it for me. Once I was big enough to engage in some things I found the money for my own guitar. At that time metal was big so guitar was already a hot thing. I like the fact you can do tricks you can't on piano. I was copying Metallica, Guns and Roses, Nirvana, Slayer, Alice in chains....anything that was popular. Played Bach a little. To me there wasn't a line between playing others music and my own. It was both. I was using other's music as a reference to write my own stuff. I don't understand people who play music professionally and never ever composed anything or improvised. I spend almost all my time trying things,improvising. That's what makes it fun to me. Sometimes you come up with something fast. Sometimes you just try things until something sounds interesting enough. You can always attach chords to a melody using simple tricks so the main goal is to come up without cool melody that works rhythmically so you can build on that easily.

[@bek4706]

As someone who don't have any interest in learning how to play the guitar or particularly listen to guitar music alone. I find these videos very interesting, the output of guitar players and their view on music.

[@mer1red]

Composing is fantastic and great fun. It doesn't feel difficult or hard to do. The urge and need to compose comes spontaneously. I started doing this when I was 12 years old, when I could barely read music and knew nothing about harmony. Where did that inspiration come from? No idea. I had a friend at school who made drawings because he loved it, and they were amazing. Which means: some people do indeed get spontaneous inspiration. Look at the Beatles: they didn't even know the names of some of their chords but wrote more songs that were melodically better than some classical composers. Secondly, learning the techniques to better develop an idea is not difficult either. It just takes a lot of training and time. And you must find a good theory and technique reference, because many theory teachings are confusing, unecessarily complex and bad.

[@ashikabbasali1836]

This is a very good post

[@LiamWakefield]

Some really good advice here. So nice of him to offer the templates, too.

[@beatrixguitar]

I know, right? they are organized by levels, so everyone can find the one that's most helpful to them. :3

[@stephenverderber112]

Same to you

[@ashikabbasali1836]

Te.po is important too

[@ashikabbasali1836]

I can paint a draw also and do computer graphics which iv used on my post

[@ashikabbasali1836]

I compose my own music just started my channel on Xmas day with 1 post original guitar instrumental love some feedback original graphics also h n year click on the A no autotune or ai this is my kind of channel

[@aspirativemusicproduction2135]

All you need to compose is imagine the music in your head. Once you know what you are trying to play the rest is like excavation.

[@DonaldButcher-y8z]

All artists borrow from other artists, the really good ones steal outright 😮

[@ashikabbasali1836]

Structure and key and cord progression gives rise to melody starting note is key limitations frees u from frustration see my first post original guitar instrumental i Can draw faces when I was about 14 i drew my first portrait still drawing at 61

[@exnihilodub]

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[@beatrixguitar]

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[@LiamWakefield]

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[@ashikabbasali1836]

Rules first im self taught appreciate feedback on my original neoclassical guitar instrumental

[@marcbeaudin761]

Guitar teachers don't encourage composition: 'Don't be a Beethoven!' I suspect because they can't compose or improvise themselves...

[@LearnCompositionOnline]

Exactly. There is one goal in art, the excellence. For everyone.

[@LearnCompositionOnline]

But good composers they dont copy, they learn techniques in such a manner that they can develop new techniques if they need it for the creation . There is a difference between copy, imitation and emulation. You should try to be a good composer , not a fake one