What is your creative process?
write it down when it comes to you, creativity can strike at any moment
I try to make my songs based off of real life observations. Stories I've been told, the News, everything in life is material to become a song. It depends on the theme I'm going for with a song or a CD. I have a very elaborate process as far as putting together material. I think that it pays to be as creative with your words as you are honest. You also just have to feel the music you record over. I have a wide variety of interest in music so it is represented in the sounds I look for in beats. A rapper I know once said, "Dope beats, dope rhymes, what more could y'all want?"
Flowing to the beat & letting my creativity take over.
I start with lyrics. I have always had a poetic leaning I suppose so for me it is always and always has been the start. After that I usually get a hookline into my head for the chorus, the rest flows from that and then it is all usually taken apart by my producer who fills in all the rest and creates sounds and feelings that I could never imagine.
Gotta see eye to eye with the producer (or director, or whoever I'm working with). Gotta make sure I can legitimately bring something to the project. Don't want to be dead weight. Want to enhance, weave magic.
I have refused jobs before because I thought I couldn't bring it.
Once producer and I see the same world, then the Muse talks to me and the magic happens. Dunno how - it just somehow always works.
I get most of my creativity while listing to other music and also watching movies. I like playing with different sounds as well and that helps me to produce something unique.
A lot of my writing comes directly out of worship. Usually in the morning after morning prayer and worship and sometimes during. There is no ONE way really.... sometimes I sit down and write a word or a sentence, and other stuff seems to evolve out of that... other times I think about a particular theme, like, Sept 11, and begin to free associate. Other times I write lyrics in a book , forget about it and come back days or weeks later. Ive learned NOT to PUSH or FORCE the creative process. It's elusive when you do that... I DO find its important though, to move forward. I try to write SOMETHING every day, or at least perform something even if it means going over my old stuff and reciting it.
I usually look for sounds or harmonies that will move someones imagination. I try to combine elements for many different areas around the country when it comes to hip hop to create a song that hopefully anyone can appreciate.
I just try to write and collaborate as much as possible with as many different people as possible.
Sometimes I hear a melody in my head, I record it and I start building a song around it.
Sometimes I play something on the piano, I record it and start building a song around it...but the mixing process takes a lot of time, a lot...
i don't really have one......sometimes a guitar part comes to me or a melody or just a general idea but theres never one definite way to go about it
Listening to music, seeing a band and having someone creative to workshop ideas with gets the juices going. I generally write down everything I need to do and add things while I'm out to do when I get into the office in the morning. Coffee helps in the mornings and a beer helps in the evenings!
Simply get together in a room and jam.
when i play guitar i always come upon new ideas and melody, riffs,etc. so there is always music ready and waiting. then when i feel the mood i write the lyircs and pick from the music I'v written what sounding music goes best with the lyrics.
The night inspire me. I love it. |
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