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Compositional Inspiration

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Without going into specifics, this article provides general ideas on how to begin writing your own music. A few of the ideas discussed are recording yourself playing around, learn a new scale or pattern, and apply some new music theory you may have learned.

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music composition, song writing

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compose, composing, creating music/composition, musical composition, songwriting, write songs, writing music, composition, instrumentation

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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