Do you think some people simply don't have the sauce when it comes to making good songs? If someone really liked music and tried to make it but the songs weren't very good in technicality and songwriting. Does that mean this person doesn't have the sauce
>>130644493well maybe they got the sauce just not the righf sauce. it can happen maybe you're just in the wrong genre?
Honestly self doubt is good, it motivates you to work harder. Too much confidence just turns you into imbred.
>>130644493No. They dont have theory thats whats missing. Music has an architecture to it. Some people are fools and think they can figure out everything on their own and its certainly possible but it's hard as nails.Learn theory, if you are young go to music school. Or at least be surrounded by friends that know what they are doing.
>>130648885no...this goes out the window when you consider a retard with a sampler can move more people than a tranny guitar hero.
>>130648885I figured out melody, harmony, and rhythm intuitively before I learned theory "properly" and I didn't really feel like I learned anything new, it did give me a better way of communicating my ideas to other musicians but desu it's more fun to just demonstrate them>>130650812E. L. James has moved more people than Franz Kafka. it's not a popularity contest guys
>>130648885>Learn theory,Literally not required. If you love music and you love to make music, you must also listen to good music, and you will make good music. If all you listen to is crap like death metal or Olivia Rodrigo you will never make good music.
>>130650890plenty of great musicians havei awful taste. the Beatles grew up listening to fucking doo wop and skiffle
>>130644493Great songwriting is such a rare talentLike 1 in 20 billion. Only appears every several decades and maybe 10 times at most in a century
When you look at successful songwriters you will find they write a LOT of songs and the vast majority are crap. I saw an interview with Desmond Child once and he said he had a hit out of every thousand songs he wrote. Everything an artist does is a masterpiece. "The sauce" is practice and quantity.
>>130650912>Shitting in Doo WopSilence, Nigger. You will NEVER write good music.
>>130650961>Desmond ChildHe has a 1,000 shitty songs because he doesn't write from his soul. He writes music for others.Think of how many actual good songs someone like Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Strokes, The White Stripes, etc made. I doubt they wrote 1,000 shitty songs. Desmond is what we call "brute forcing" a good song.
>>130650919the fuck you mean 1 in 20 billion? you think that there’s only been five great songwriters in human history? name them
>>130651042>is what we callwe? please link your hits.Desmond is just an example. I'll take the Beatles from your list. They wrote and wrote and wrote. If OP were to look into songwriting he/she/it would find that writing a lot is the way that many, many successful writers got good. Another example would be what happened at the Brill Building. Writers would go in and grind away 8 hours a day. Practice. That simple. The idea of innate talent and inspiration is magical thinking. It takes practice. It takes work.
