for me it’s probably being overly emotional, everytime I have a meltdown I swear I pump out like 5 songs lmao
also just looking at the love of my life will do the trick I could write bibles about them
looking at my bf , food , and honestly just feelings .
imo , i think poems are technically song lyrics !
my greatest accomplishment was a song about my cat. she was sick and I was in immense dismay having to deal with taking care of her because she wouldn't eat or move.
I wrote the core structure of the song while basically sobbing on my midi keyboard about 8 years ago. it turned out to be a good melody and had a good chord progression. it was a powerful memory and so I held onto it, though the song was ambitious and took years to produce. I only finally finished it this year.
I'll say that writing music while in turmoil is not a great experience and I don't recommend it, and I would not ever try to confuse pain with inspiration. it is incredibly distracting to be suffering and also trying to write music. not ideal.
some of my best music came from melodies I dreamt in my subconscious and then I get up and try to interpret them quickly on my computer before I forget.
that or what happens usually when I'm producing is that I'll get stuck and start randomly jamming stuff on my computer keyboard with my left hand (using AWSEDFTGYHUJKOL) while my right hand is on my mouse messing with various parameters. sometimes I'll suddenly realize that whatever random thing I'm playing sounds pretty good and then I'll save it and use it later by transposing it into the key of one of my existing songs, as I often am in need of extra harmonies or melodies to bridge together different sections where there may be gaps. these are not melodies that I think of, they are just whatever my fingers feel like doing.
it can also happen in the opposite way where I am fully aware of what I am playing, and using both hands, and perhaps I am just simply jamming (as an active form of leisure) to whatever notes my passing whim takes me to and then suddenly I realize that whatever I just played sounded good and so I expand it and then record it, even though I went into the session with no intention of recording anything.
usually I'm not really in any mood in particular, and it just happens to be that some musical expression came about in my mind that I think I can work with. this is especially true for writing drums. if you are in the mind to write music, over the years you tend to accrue a lot of "impulsive" melodies that you weren't looking for and the more you have the more that come, as you naturally anticipate how your own music should go with a critical ear.
I prefer spooky
listening to music and memories, i guess. oddly enough, people screaming into a mic about their issues in life is motivating in a way.
writing about memories can help me process them, kinda. it depends.
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