Leon Willett
Active Member
I really wanna make music. I actually love doing music when the inspiration kicks in. But what to do when theres no inspiration?
Hello!
Inspiration is simply your desire for your music to be a certain way.
Amazingly enough, this desire is completely involuntary and inevitable. It is as inevitable as whether you like chocolate or not. You put it in your mouth, and what follows you either like or don't. And you don't get to chose what you like, it just happens.
In the same way, you inevitably and unstoppably want your music to be a certain way, and not another.
What is happening when you think you have no inspiration (or no "desire" for your music to be a certain way), is that THOUGHT is eclipsing your desire. It is still there (because your desires are in fact involuntary and unstoppable), but it is trapped underneath thought.
Notice that desires for music do not happen in language. They happen in imagined sound, or imagined emotion.
You desire your music to have this or that pitch/chord, followed by another. Or this or that emotion, followed by another. Again: all these desires are inevitable -- there is no stopping them.
But they can be eclipsed by thinking (which appears in language).
So thoughts such as: "I should really use some brass" or "I suck!" or "I need new samples" or "I should use the V chord here" or "the theme should come back here" or "I can't think of anything" or "I have no inspiration today"...
...are eclipsing your actual inspiration (which does not appear to you in language, but in fact appears to you in imagined sound or imagined emotion).
If you pay NO attention to the language-type thoughts, and pay attention to the sound/emotion type thoughts, you will discover that you have an unstoppable and completely involuntary inspiration machine with you all the time.
Look closely. Mistrust language-based thoughts. Be curious about sound or emotion-based inner arisings. Follow those ones. When language-based ones come back, notice and remember to ignore them.