If you've started exploring melodies or chord progressions on the piano, you're ready for the next stage in your songwriting journey: collecting and refining your musical ideas! Deciding which of your musical ideas to work on can be frustrating if you don't have the right mindset -- the pressure to write music that other people will like can stifle our natural musicianship.
Does the fear of being acceptable to others keep you from writing music from your heart? I know from experience that trying to impress other people isn't a sustainable way to motivate your piano journey!
Often, our new musical ideas don't come to us fully formed. They start as a seed of an idea, and need to be extended and shaped until they express our vision for it. Today I talk about this refining stage of songwriting, and share why I use design principles -- not music theory -- to help me grow my ideas.