It is common for songwriters to fall victim to predictable patterns of songwriting, and it just gets worse with time, and often they realize it too late. Understandably, each individual prefers a certain way of doing stuff and they have their individual preferences for music, musical instruments, and style. While consistency is believed to be the key, adhering to the same type of music is often detrimental to the artist. Listening to artists produce the same kind of music time and again eventually leads fans to lose interest in their music and reduces their anticipation for the next release, and after a certain time, it just gets plain boring.
So how can one get over this pickle? It is often a good idea to pause, reflect and re-launch oneself into a fresh musical mindset. It is one of the best ways to thrive creatively as a songwriter and of keeping fans engaged and on edge when it comes to your new releases. However, easy as it sounds, that is not the case in reality. Getting yourself into a new musical mindset takes a lot of work and determination. Here are some ways to give your musical mindset a make-over:
- Try out different song-writing exercises
Songwriting Exercises are one of the quickest and surest ways to uplift one’s musical thinking. Some of the best exercises to explore one’s creative versatility include word association; learning, mastering, and rewriting your favorite songs, the 10-minute song, and free-writing. By their very nature, songwriting exercises aim at taking songwriters out of their rut and helping them understand and identify the underlying problems in their music. It can help writers get back on track and get excited about creating music once again instead of falling into a monotonous loop.
- Take short breaks in between writing
Take a cue from Ross and Rachel and take a break! Maybe that’s what your relationship with songwriting needs to reconnect with a fresh perspective. Often when one writes continuously for a long time, after a certain point, one starts lacking the motivation and creative inspiration that one needs to breathe life into the music. Taking a break helps you reassess how music adds meaning to your life and how it fits into the pattern of your life at that point. It helps you get an insight and you will realize your musical creations grow as you have grown.
- Explore new songs and genres
Music, like water, begins to grow moldy when you keep it stagnant for too long. Each day the music industry produces a new song and with time new genres of music are explored and created. Think of your songwriting journey as an inspiration to seek out new things. Get out of the notion that discovering new music is limited to people in their teens and their 20s. As musicians, it is one’s utmost duty to be inspired by new music, and even if new music fails to move one, one should try and discover old music that they haven’t had the chance to be acquainted with yet.
- Modify your basal writing process
There are a hundred ways to alter one’s songwriting process. But for that one must first be well aware of their existing methods. Sometimes altering the instruments/devices of writing helps as it brings newness to the creative process. Sometimes jumbling up the steps of writing help. Mix it up a little and experiment. One of the most tried and tested methods is to experiment with extremes. It helps songwriters open up their minds to new possibilities that they might be missing when they stick to a predictable range of themes, tempos, and tonalities. Setting goals if you are a writer who creates at a whim is a significant change that you might want to try out. If you are fond of layers, try to peel some of those in your next song and experiment with minimalism.
- Delve into the unfamiliarity
While embracing all these changes can seem like a difficult feat but that is what the point of the whole ordeal is. Different situations affect your psyche and creative procedure in different ways and this diversity is what one needs to inculcate in their music to prevent it from turning boring and lame. Try working with different artists, expand your horizons and make the most out of the different resources that you can divulge. Human beings are by default accustomed to falling into habits that blot away creativity and newness. Therefore, the songwriting procedure must remain open to curiosity, risk, and excitement to spice things up from time to time.
In case a songwriter ever feels that their mindset has reached a state of stagnancy, the above methods can be genuinely helpful in starting things up again with a fresh perspective.
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