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Topic: My most favoritest unheard of band w/o a name
Posted: April 27 2012 at 21:11

Smurph: You have admitted familiarity with Three Days Grace's discography.

YOU LOSE

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Posted: April 27 2012 at 08:15

Might I recommend downloading MuseScore to write your songs down? http://musescore.org/

It's free unlike Finale, but it's probably not quite as professional and can get a little glitchy on occasions, but it works really well for the basics. I really enjoy it, and about half of what I know about writing sheet music, I learned while using the program, so give it a try even if you aren't already great with sheet music.

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Posted: April 27 2012 at 07:54

^My band with the largest discography and most complete history with band members named etc..was called Flying Colours...I kid you not.

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Posted: April 27 2012 at 07:51

So 3 Days Grace ripped off your fake band?

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Posted: April 27 2012 at 04:15

Nah, I hold on to stuff. Like I've actually crafted some albums with distinct beginnings and endings that are refined but not changed over time. I even have a double album with two discs: This House Is Not A Home and This Home Is Not A House.

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Posted: April 27 2012 at 04:07

I can't make full albums. I literally hear music in my head that I cant control so I scramble to make it but sometimes I don't make it... and then it is lost forever. A gorgeous moment of crazy.

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Posted: April 27 2012 at 04:01

When I came back from China I found a whole lot of lyric books in storage in my parents house that I had filled up and was so ashamed at what a lot of nonsense the whole thing was that I put them in the fire.

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Posted: April 27 2012 at 03:58

^I have notebooks and folders full of the stuff. Most of the folders are long gone but I could find a notebook.

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Posted: April 27 2012 at 03:50

Anyone got titles to share? Among my many imaginary albums, all of which were extremely well received by me, are The Minotaur, Planning Your Flight, Goodbye Suicide, Atheism Motherf**ker, Killer Towers and Kthxbye,

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 21:20

Yes. It's not always deliberate, but it's never some arbitrary, nonexistent band in my head; I think of it as my creation, albeit one that will probably never be shared with anyone. Usually the music that goes through my head is death metal, which matches my mood at the times when I'm in most need of "head music."

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 20:12

Textbook wrote:

It's worse than that. I even interview myself in my head about my non-existant music.

So you're Joe, of Joe's Garage fame?

I confess, I dream up tons of tunes that will never be heard by anyone.

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 19:56

Snow Dog wrote:

Smurph wrote:

Textbook wrote:

Smurph: I too create music and entire albums in my head. It's very detailed and quite good in my opinion, but I know I lack the ability to make it.

Awesome! It helps knowing I'm not alone in this.

Yeah I already said i did it. Ouch

Damn sorry I didnt notice that at first... not sure why.

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 16:50

I don't think having vain daydreams is all it requires to be a musical genius ;) Well it's probably a key part of it now that I think about it, but some actual capacity to get a record made is also useful.

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 16:50

Smurph wrote:

Textbook wrote:

Smurph: I too create music and entire albums in my head. It's very detailed and quite good in my opinion, but I know I lack the ability to make it.

Awesome! It helps knowing I'm not alone in this.

Yeah I already said i did it. Ouch

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 16:45

^Dude. You're the sh*t. This is the sort of thing that I used to do before I started making music.

Maybe give yourself a lot of time and instead of learning to play an instrument, learn to write sheet music without an instrument. You could figure out ways to get down what you have been thinking. You might be a musical genius and not even know it from what it sounds like.

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 16:34

It's worse than that. I even interview myself in my head about my non-existant music.

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:32

Textbook wrote:

Smurph: I too create music and entire albums in my head. It's very detailed and quite good in my opinion, but I know I lack the ability to make it.

Awesome! It helps knowing I'm not alone in this.

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:27

Smurph: I too create music and entire albums in my head. It's very detailed and quite good in my opinion, but I know I lack the ability to make it.

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 14:42

That would be awful if the noises went away. It's kinda one of the main reasons I'm able to write infinite amounts of music. I love the noises. They keep the voices away. Haha.

If I allowed the noise thoughts to write lyrics they would probably be more like

AND HE JEERED AND FEARED THE DEPTHS OF THE WORLD.

HE KNOWS THEY ARE COMING.

THEY ARE COMING.

THEY ARE COMING WITH FERVOR AND FEVER AND ANGER AND PESTILENCE.

THEY ARE RIPE WITH THE OVERZEALOUS.

THEY FEED ON NOTHING AND EAT EVERYTHING.

SIX CHILDREN WATCHED AS ANOTHER SIX TURNED TO DUST.
THEY DID IT WITH THEIR MINDS. THEIR MINDS.

YOU CAN'T SCRAPE THE INSIDES OF MY VEINS OUT.
IF YOU DO, YOU MIGHT FIND OUT WHAT I'VE INGESTED, AND THAT WOULD ONLY LEAD TO THEIR ARRIVAL.
THEY.

THEY.
THEY.

That's free writing things that pop into my head. It's not very pleasant in here. Hahaha

Also, it doesnt make very much sense but then I guess I could probably write prog music with it because then people would just try to figure out what I meant when really it's just my thoughts being random and crazy.

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Posted: April 26 2012 at 13:28

^ You should just see them imaginary groupies *inmyhead*

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