[quote name='s_u_y_*' post='79158' date='Oct 25 2007, 12:20 AM']One thing I do sometimes, especially if I'm finding it difficult to find something complementary to what's going on, is to sing my parts.
Unless you're on the top of your game, I find that it is much easier to create musical parts by singing in your head.[/quote]
totally in agreeament with this. I used to work with a songwriter who had his own studio.He couldnt play bass but he'd sing out the bass ideas he had floating around in his head to me,and we'ed use those as a framwork that I could flesh out..some phrases were like brass parts,others like something a piano would do.everything was almost upside down compared to how I'd ever written a bass line before and in all honesty his "basslines" were something I'd probably never have come up with off the bat.the point is they worked,were very musical and made me realise that I needed to start listening more and that even if I had all the technical ability in the world (didnt then and still dont now),it still was no match for his instrinsically musical soul.
so if its in your head it will out eventually
DJ