How to find musical inspiration 19 Articles

by Sean Curtis

Musical inspiration can come from within yourself or the world around you. You should always be ready to be inspired by something. When it happens, and you feel that desire to creative something, don't hesitate. Get to wor...read more

by Jason Brandon

Musical creativity is often depicted on television as a person sitting behind a piano, trying to desperately capture an idea from out of the blue, until they actually come up with that award-winning melody. However, this ...read more

by Virginia Lynn Emrick

Who Inspires You, Baby? (c)2007 After attending numerous workshops and lectures by fellow writers & other creative folks, I've decided the number one question asked during the Q&A sessions is "What's your inspiration?...read more

by Christopher Buczkowski

First off, I just want to say that I have revised this article by adding a more concise version ("Part One") of the full article (now "Part Two"), in order to allow people to find what they're looking for more quickly, if ...read more

by Marion Davis

The Music Maker Sam was a young man, with a gift he never knew he had. As a child he dream of being a musician but he never knew it would come to past. Until one day something change his life and motivated him. He too...read more

by Gerry Baird

"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -anonymous I learned my first lesson in the true power of music when I was 13 years old. During my middle school years, I occasionally listened to new age piano an...read more

by Michael Cannata

Songs Life Sings to Me - Part 2 This is actually the tail-end of a long story. It's part of the story about how and why I have been writing songs for just about as long as I could write. While there have been times I've...read more

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by James Hall

I just had a little moment. I was watching the incredibly outrageous [Those two words sum it all up in this case I think] Eurovision song contest, whilst listening to totally contrasting music of serious, solemn, beauty. ...read more

by K Prouty

How i find musical inspiration. First off i try to never get idea's from other music,like it or not you end up sounding like whatever inspired you. A healthy diet of reading book's of interest sparks most of my lyrical ...read more

by Joshua Mackle

'A nightingale in a golden cage...' Even as I sit here typing out this article, it still amazes me how I get my musical inspiration and where it comes from. I am playing 'The Escapist' by Nightwish, and Anette's voice i...read more

by Tiffany Brooks

Ask yourself the following questions: 1. What method do you use to compose? (i.e. pen and paper, on a computer or writing on an instrument?) 2. Where do you write music? 3. Do you write music in the same place or do y...read more

by Joe Lodge

There are infinite ways to find musical inspiration. Perhaps the easiest method is to listen to as much music, and as many genres of music that you can. Whilst some composers choose to listen to no music apart from their o...read more

by Darrel Gauthier

Finding musical inspiration seems easy for me. It is your feelings, your thoughts, your environment, your past, your future. Writing a song can be done in many ways it could start out as a hum or a sentence being spoken, w...read more

by Taylor Mclay

Did you ever turn on the radio and felt so excited about a certain song being on the radio, that you could hardly breathe normal enough to sing along? That happens to me on a regular basis, even when I put in a CD and I kn...read more

by Johnny Slade

There can be a number of possible source for musical inspirations from any significant events or predicaments and they can either be positive or negative. That happens to be the beauty and fact about having a creative out...read more

by Jessica Turner

Music Is Within Ones Self How does someone find musical inspiration? I would have to say music is within someones inner self. People express how life is within themselves and they sing...read more

by Eric M. van Hall

ESSENTIAL GROOVE Resonance Music keeps him moving forward at key transition points in his life: Metheny's polyrhythmic, textured guitar voice fuels and transports him to a place of peace and power; Mozart shatter...read more

by Alex Hales

06/09/1995; Rene Higuita, busy writing himself into the next-day headlines with that crazy-ass goal line manoeuvre at the old Wembley and in a hometown boozer (the George & Dragon, I think) myself and a few close family me...read more

by Cody Shouey

Have you ever had one of those days where you can't seem to come up with any ideas? I do all the time and so do some other musicians. I've devised a strategy to find musical inspiration, that works for me 99.9% of the tim...read more