Assuming we use the Western scale, there are 12 notes in each octave on a piano keyboard. Let's say that in a typical song you have a range of 3 octaves. That's 36 notes. HOW THE FLYING FUCK do you put together a mere 36 notes and yet make something entirely new?!
Writing is comparatively easy - there are n thousand words in the English language. (I don't actually know how many, but I believe a vocabulary of 8000 words is considered the basic necessity for life). If I find myself struggling, I just pick up a thesaurus and find some synonyms.
You could sit the guys from MCR down and ask them how they do it, but I don't think you'd get an answer. Because people who can do it just can. It would be like saying "How do you see different colours?" or "How do you manage to move your body to be in the right position to intercept the ball?". That's why it's so damn frustrating.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:31 pm (UTC)Writing is comparatively easy - there are n thousand words in the English language. (I don't actually know how many, but I believe a vocabulary of 8000 words is considered the basic necessity for life). If I find myself struggling, I just pick up a thesaurus and find some synonyms.
You could sit the guys from MCR down and ask them how they do it, but I don't think you'd get an answer. Because people who can do it just can. It would be like saying "How do you see different colours?" or "How do you manage to move your body to be in the right position to intercept the ball?". That's why it's so damn frustrating.