I spent just enough time driving yesterday to listen to the soundtrack from Amélie by Yann Tiersen. I'd love to be able to write music like this -- instrumental music with great melodies, not necessarily complicated but layered. Here's a sample:
Yann Tiersen - La Valse d'Amelie by nurseda_cagatay
Really, the hardest part of writing a song like this would be composing the melodies, which I think has more to do with inherent talent than a technical knowledge of music.
I had a dream last night that I heard this great arpeggiated chord progression in my head. I struggled to pick it out on the guitar. Eventually I failed to recall the arpeggiation and soon I was unable to play the simple chord progression itself.
In terms of events this dream is far from interesting, but what is interesting is that somehow my brain created this complex melody in my head as I slept. (That or my brain tricked me into thinking I come up with this melody. Which might be likely.)
This isn't the first time my brain has written songs for me during that most sublime form of nocturnal respite known as sleep. Last summer I dreamed about hearing this new Peter Cetera song -- I could hear everything in my head, guitars, keyboard, drums, vocals -- it was all incredibly vivid. (I'm pretty sure my brain drew heavily on Bon Iver's love-it-or-hate-it "Beth/Rest" for inspiration since that song could be tacked on to a Peter Cetera album without anyone knowing the difference.)
My favorite YouTube comment for this video: "this song is like going to a really nice restaurant and getting served a bologna sandwich only to find out that it is the most amazing thing you have ever eaten."
So now I'm trying to determine if I'm really this talented musician while I sleep or if I my brain is just making me think I am.
A couple of times in the last month or so I wrote what I thought was an amazing song in a dream. I dreamt that I wrote one of them with KCK and that it became an instant radio hit. The 2-note hook went like this: Noah, Noah, no no Noah! I'm not sure what I'm trying to keep Noah from doing, but I'm now determined to use it in a song. I've been wanting to start a dream journal lately. We should compare notes.
ReplyDeletei appreciate your vivid dreams, as i have them all the time. apparently even about wookies holding popcorn makers. though i still contend that exists.
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