I've been drumming for about 5 years and I think I'm pretty alright and come up with creative parts, not just in the sense of 'muh time signatures', and have started taking some music theory classes.
But because I don't play any melodic instruments other than dabbling in keyboard, I don't really know the process of how to write a song or write a chord structure.
Any advice or ideas on how to get things going?
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Hmm, i make electronic stuff but getting a daw might be quite helpful if youre having trouble writing a song. you could use it to plop notes down and arrange stuff and listen to it on instruments that you cant play (pirate some sample libraries and you can mock up your own orchestra if you want).
the process for writing a song is you plop notes down andsee how it sounds. thereis no real process just make the music. what you plop down first will sound like shit. tweak it and stuff until it sounds shit but less shit, then move on and work on a new track with the lessons you learned from the first, etc.
dont think about it too much, this will fuck you up. dont worry about any rules of songwriting, just make a few fucking songs, no matter how terrible or disorganized. after you know what it is like to make a song, you can focus on learning how to actually do it. but right now, youre focusing on getting things going when you could be writing the song by plopping some fucking notes down. if you need direction, write 12 bar blues in C major, put melodic notes on every beat and choose which notes they are using a random number generator. would bring you closer to your goal than typing our your post did