I hope this is the right place for this.
It does involve writing and a person's faith in himself/herself.
I had a little discussion with my oldest son today about my songwriting. He is 20 years old, a music major in college. I have been asking him to help me with the musical notations for my latest song. I wrote the lyrics and the music, but I can't actually write music. I can't do the notations on the sheet music. That's where he comes in. He said he would do it.
He asked me to sing the song onto a tape and he would listen to it and figure out the notes/chords, etc. So I did. He gave me a sample listen to what he came up with.
It sounded pretty much right. But he was arguing with me over some musical stuff that I don't really understand.
Anyways, eventually he asked me what I expected to accomplish from my songwriting. He said, "Do you want to make money from this? Or do you just want to make a CD for yourself just for the fun/pleasure of it?"
And basically he was making me feel like I would go nowhere with this endeavor, saying that most songwriters perform their own songs, which is not what I had intended to do. I wanted to be like one of the Diane Warrens of the music industry, who composes songs for OTHER artists.
I felt like he was trying to talk me out of the whole thing. I was telling him that a person who has a passion for something, who has this ability should at least give it a try.
What do you think?
It does involve writing and a person's faith in himself/herself.
I had a little discussion with my oldest son today about my songwriting. He is 20 years old, a music major in college. I have been asking him to help me with the musical notations for my latest song. I wrote the lyrics and the music, but I can't actually write music. I can't do the notations on the sheet music. That's where he comes in. He said he would do it.
He asked me to sing the song onto a tape and he would listen to it and figure out the notes/chords, etc. So I did. He gave me a sample listen to what he came up with.
It sounded pretty much right. But he was arguing with me over some musical stuff that I don't really understand.
Anyways, eventually he asked me what I expected to accomplish from my songwriting. He said, "Do you want to make money from this? Or do you just want to make a CD for yourself just for the fun/pleasure of it?"
And basically he was making me feel like I would go nowhere with this endeavor, saying that most songwriters perform their own songs, which is not what I had intended to do. I wanted to be like one of the Diane Warrens of the music industry, who composes songs for OTHER artists.
I felt like he was trying to talk me out of the whole thing. I was telling him that a person who has a passion for something, who has this ability should at least give it a try.
What do you think?