My mistake was focusing too much on the minutia early on without an idea of structure. As much as I'd like to think the music can just come easily, I believe brilliant work is definitely a calculated effort.
I tell my students this who are working on writing or personal statements. Great writing is when someone reads it and says "Boy, I wish I was as talented of a writer as _____. The writing just comes so easily to him/her." It's when everything flows so easily that the reader cannot tell that painstaking effort went into making that work fantastic.
Same goes for music I suppose. Songs on the radio that sound so simple or cheesy probably had teams of sound engineers, composers, lyricists, and more -- just so we'd think that song was 'so simple'.. yet for some reason we can't stop listening to it....
Take 3 will be posted here. As soon as I finish it.
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