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The key essential element to becoming a better writer and perhaps THE most important factor to developing an individual style and sound is to learn and experience as much as possible from existing types of music.
If you feel buzz about thrash metal this week then immerse yourself in recordings and find out what makes the genre tick. By making your own tracks inspired by other great artists you learn the craft. Most of the time even if your intention was to mimic an existing track you'll find that the results of your work are original ( unless your intention was to copy note for note )
Most of the worlds greatest original musicians and writers learned their craft and became as great as they are by experiencing and understanding the other genres of music around them at that time:
Film composer John Williams - studied all of the great classical composers and still plays their music..... he was also started out as a jazz pianist before any of his film score commissions 'Johnie Williams'
Matthew Bellamy from Muse has made a fantastic use of Rachmaninoff and chopin styled piano styles as well as harmonic sequences in their songs
Jazz Stride Piano legend 'Fats Waller' when asked about his technique and style swore by the 'three B's' as he put it: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
Understanding and enjoying different styles of music is not just fun it also gives us huge amounts of knowledge that help us develop and shape our own styles.
Its all good ! The more you understand about different types of the music the more options you have and routes to take when writing.
Beer.
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