I used a dartboard to write a song
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2023
- When writing a song, there are a lot of creative choices to make. But what happens when we leave the choice of the genre, tempo, key, and subject matter up to a throw of a dart?
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If you like the song in this video you can now stream it! It's called "Shut The World Away" and it's on my new album, "I did it for me"
The dart board is a winner. This should be a regular series
This man’s keyboard drumming skills never cease to impress 😮
This is genuinely a song that I would listen everyday, I loved it, I hope it will get on Spotify soon
Your channel really deserves to blow up, hope it happens for you
Spencer, I really hope people get the true underlying lesson in this video. As a recording student in college, I was required to take first-level Songwriting. It was easy for me - being a life-long musician - with years of music theory behind me, and a penchant for poetry. But - one thing my professor stressed is the paradigm of IT'S A JOB! Songwriting is a job! People who write songs for a living dwell in a totally different headspace. For the money, the most militant atheist can write the most soul-stirring Christian song; someone who has never lived anywhere but the heights of Manhattan can write the most inspiring tune about the beauty of the Grand Canyon. it's. A. Job. If you want to make songwriting your profession, you absolutely CANNOT rely on personal experience or "inspiration". Much like your dart board, it's about GET IT DONE. I hope I've expressed myself succinctly. Now, write a song about that - - -LOL! Love you, brother!
Just found your channel. This is great. I’d love to see more of these writing process things. The random assignment challenge is so great!
Cannot express how much I love that channel. Such a joy to see you composing with your heart and soul. I did something similar with a dice, and it's been HARD! Major props for checking all boxes. Great indie rock song, especially the rhythm section
I feel a bit of Gin Blossoms and Greenday esqu-ness in there. Brilliant!
You make it look so simple 😂 great job!
dude this is so fucking good-
I like the chord progressions you choose to use, they're familiar without being formulaic.
I really like the dart board approach. Great songwriting and execution.
Fantastic again Spencer, you just keep hitting it out of the park! Amazing!
Awesome work Spencer!
I love the way you play the drums on the keyboard!!!
Wow, awesome ! I wish I could start a band with you lol!
Idea for another video. Sometimes I find a clean slate to be very daunting, I don't know where to begin, the options are endless, so I end up just staring at the blankness of it for quite a while. And that's when I do the thing where I start with someone else's song/picture/story. No more anxiety over a blank slate. And no matter what it is, writing, painting/drawing, making a song, it works for any of these. What you do is start with something else, a thing that's mostly or all the way done. And you go in and start changing it up. Change it from happy to sad, colorful to muted, exciting to calm, whatever to whatever. What you're doing is changing it and changing it and changing it, adding and taking away, until what you have is absolutely nothing like what you started with. What would be an interesting video is if you started the video with your song, and went backward, slowly bit by bit showing us what you started with. And that way the reveal would be quite surprising, were we way off or were we way way off? Because if you do it correctly we shouldn't be able to guess what you started with.
Hi Spencer, short, sweet, and simple: I love your videos. Thank you!
This is great! Love the idea of using a dart board. Subbed!