@Shane Wilcox thanks, wanna post how u use this plug in with synths? must be crazy

@Jessica Maddie Well, my ideal routine is balanced, yeah. My actual routine is as balanced as can be and sometimes all over the place, I think, as with most other people. Finally I found that mornings are extremely good for logic and routine tasks, technical drill, exercises, getting stuff done and whatnot. However, when it comes to real flow state creative phases, I love nights. I'm a night person, really. It's just I've learned how to make mornings viable out of necessity, so to speak. The best ideas though, they come whenever they please. Hows it for you?

@Jessica Maddie hm it depends, ideally i either have a zoom recorder, phone oiece of paper to write down the sketch, but over the years i ve also learned to memorize ideas for a long time, theory/ear training have helped me a lot with that

I hope this one will not come around too cheesy, but you remember this one scene in Lord of the Rings where Frodo looks into this magic well by Galadriel and he sees things that were, things that are and things that could be? That's really what making music is to me It's this strange language that manages to communicate Human experiences across continents, countries, timeframes. I've had the luxury to be inspired and touched by artists and musicians whom I will never be able to meet, simply because they already passed away. And at the same time, I've I had the experience of having touched other people around the world ,whom I will never meet, with my own music. And lastly, while making music I connect to moments out of my life that were in the past, there are situations that are currently in my mind and coming up with all kinds of imaginary realities simultaneously. And funnily enough, it allows me to connect to some very old tribal part of my being that is completely disconnected from the celebral mind It makes me feel like I'm still a child playing with a toy one time, And at other times it hits me with a tsunami of existential dread. I don't know if I could name anything more alive in my existence.

Thanks for putting this out there. I started my own school community this spring based on Alex's advice. I'll be honest, it can be tricky to get going in the beginning, but now that it's up and running, actually, it has been a surprisingly rewarding and fascinating journey. Not only did it help me to improve my musicianship a lot, but also the amount of people and great other players I get to know that way is incredible.

If you want the safest route to write melodies over chord progressions, I would recommend that you focus on the individual chord tones and just connect them naturally. In a major scale, for instance, a perfect fourth can lead nicely towards the major three, major seventh can lead nicely towards the octave, and when combining different chords, for instance, you can approach the new chord tones from a semi or whole tone step above and beyond. So basically I would try to map out the chord tones on these downbeats and connect them with simple steps from above and once that is in place start going crazy with it and changing stuff that feels too simple. That's what works for me most of the times. Happy composing! :)