Quote from: winkio on September 08, 2009, 12:26:43 am
Quote from: Starrodkirby86 on September 08, 2009, 12:14:10 am
It also helps to be listening to lots of instrumental songs. You can easily find those if you play rhythm games, since there's a plethora of interesting melodies. 
...Or many video games in general with kick-butt soundtracks.
The more you listen to, the more inspiration you can get.
I agree, except it doesn't even have to be any certain type of music. My recommendation is just to listed to a lot of music, and a lot of different types of music. If you want to fully understand musical composition, learn some music theory. It sucks (as in, it's boring), but it's such a good foundation for knowing how things sound.
I don't think it sucks, it can be really facinating.
But yeah, listen to alot of music, and find some that has a kind of sound that you like, then try to find out why it sounds like that. That's what I did xD
I don't think it will help you xD, but bands that really inspire me are Primus, Miumi (from my area xD), Apocalyptica, Radare, Long distance calling (intrumental rock), Serj Tankian, Buckethead and actually many others. And you should try to listen to the soundtrack of eternal sonata, or to soundtracks from Motoi Sakuraba in general, he really is amazing.
I couldn't listen to all your songs so far, but the one I heard (House party) is quite good, just abit repetive, but catchy ^^ I would recommend you to put in some voice samples though. You'll have to find out what suits it most, I myself use samples from the police radio and politician speeches for my industrial song, but that wouldn't fit yours xD
Good thing my music made you write new songs though xD