The brain has an amazing natural capability and I wish to share it

I have created tunes and themes in my mind through pure emotion (inspiration) alone and nothing else. Music is something very emotional and all that is needed to create great and catchy tunes in your mind is just pure inspiration/emotion alone. The more emotion you channel in your mind, the better the tune you are very likely to create since it is that much more likely to be a more emotionally profound, powerful, and compelling tune. These tunes are, to me, catchy, compelling, and convey powerful and profound emotion whether that emotion be something that makes people want to get up and dance or something else. It's the melodies themselves that convey this to me and not just the instruments I've chosen. Even though I perceive these tunes as great and catchy, I do not know how others would perceive them. Just because I perceive them as great and catchy does not make it so which is why the feedback of others is so important. I have made some improvisations over the last tunes I have created and, hopefully, these new tunes will convey what I describe them to be.

My melodies might also be very basic, but it is well known that even basic melodies convey powerful and profound emotion. Haven't you ever listened to a simple theme or tune that was catchy, famous, and conveyed something powerful and great? So, here are my new tunes. I am only sharing to you the tunes I am making for now and not fully perfected songs. I think I have some great, catchy tunes and that was what I was wanting to share for now until I become a professional composer later on who is able to create fully perfected songs. I am currently a complete beginner at composing and have yet to learn. Nonetheless, our brains are still more than capable of creating any great work of art in our minds whether it be tunes or landscapes. Even people who are not artists or educated are able to have dreams, psychedelic trips, and near death experiences where they witness whole new artistic landscapes whether it be heavenly and hellish landscapes or music.  These are crafts that skilled artists themselves would create. Therefore, our brains are already natural artists and they can already create amazing masterpieces on their own.

That is how I was able to create these amazing tunes in my mind. I did not require any education, training, dreams, psychedelic trips, or near death experiences to pull it off. All that was needed to bring out the brain's amazing, natural, artistic capabilities was pure inspiration alone.  Using the brain's amazing natural capability, I can create any next best amazing theme whether it be the next best Zelda theme, Super Mario theme, or any theme in general.  Even though I am perhaps a savant mentally since I create these amazing tunes in my mind, the problem arises when artists such as myself attempt to convey their envisioned masterpieces in the real, physical world. In order to successfully convey your vision, then that might require much knowledge and training on how to do it. Or maybe not. I really don't know. Maybe there is a shortcut (a way for me to successfully convey my themes now). That is why I am sharing to you these amazing themes I hear right now despite not being educated and trained. Hopefully, these amazing themes will become coherent for the listener and their great and catchy power conveyed.

https://soundcloud.com/user-432115982/sets/my-best-themes

 
 

SuperMarioGamerThat is why I am sharing to you these amazing themes I hear right now despite not being educated and trained. Hopefully, these amazing themes will become coherent for the listener and their great and catchy power conveyed.

https://soundcloud.com/user-432115982/sets/my-best-themes

amazing is quite a stretch.  actually,  it is amazing that you think so highly of your music, lol.  i like to be encouraging to beginners,  but i don't like to encourage delusional egos.  i would say be a little more humble and put in a lot more work before you start thinking of yourself as amazing. if you ever want to work professionally in music,  either in soundtracks for video games or whatever,  no one is going to want to work with someone that's and ego maniac and thinks of themselves as amazing.  there are just too many really awesome, and humble,  artists out there to put up with that (right here on this forum even!). Having said all of that,  i think you have some interesting little nuggets of ideas.  but as is,  they need a lot more work. 
 
I'll relate a little story.  When I was a young lad,  it thought i was really good at basketball.  i even entertained fantasies of being in the nba.  I easily beat my dad and kept up really well against my older brother.  I then played with some actually good players and got my ass handed to me.  i realized my dad was trying to be encouraging and my brother just sucked, lol. 

Hugh Mann
 
 

SuperMarioGamerThat is why I am sharing to you these amazing themes I hear right now despite not being educated and trained. Hopefully, these amazing themes will become coherent for the listener and their great and catchy power conveyed.

https://soundcloud.com/user-432115982/sets/my-best-themes

amazing is quite a stretch.  actually,  it is amazing that you think so highly of your music, lol.  i like to be encouraging to beginners,  but i don't like to encourage delusional egos.  i would say be a little more humble and put in a lot more work before you start thinking of yourself as amazing. if you ever want to work professionally in music,  either in soundtracks for video games or whatever,  no one is going to want to work with someone that's and ego maniac and thinks of themselves as amazing.  there are just too many really awesome, and humble,  artists out there to put up with that (right here on this forum even!). Having said all of that,  i think you have some interesting little nuggets of ideas.  but as is,  they need a lot more work. 
 
I'll relate a little story.  When I was a young lad,  it thought i was really good at basketball.  i even entertained fantasies of being in the nba.  I easily beat my dad and kept up really well against my older brother.  I then played with some actually good players and got my ass handed to me.  i realized my dad was trying to be encouraging and my brother just sucked, lol. 

I understand all of this.  But my question here is, are they catchy or are they just incoherent gibberish for other listeners?  Do they actually convey something profound, beautiful, great, and amazing despite the fact that they are not fully perfected crafts?  Here is one new tune I made and it, to me, conveys something profoundly moving and beautiful.  That might not be true and I am open minded towards the idea that I am delusional, but I like to discover the truth which is why I am here sharing these tunes and seeing how others will respond to them:
 
https://soundcloud.com/us...82/sets/my-best-themes

Hugh Mann
 
 
I kind of feel like this is a bit of a prank or something,  but I'll play along.  I like jokes, lol.
 
>But my question here is, are they catchy or are they just incoherent gibberish for other listeners? <
 
A little catchy,  but kind of gibberish.
 
>Do they actually convey something profound, beautiful, great, and amazing despite the fact that they are not fully perfected crafts? <
 
No they don't. 
 
:)

This is not a prank.  It could really be the case that any theme you have in your mind cannot be conveyed as long as you do not fully study up and train yourself on how to convey your themes.  You see, I thought there was a way for me to convey these themes right here and now that I hear in my mind.  They are, again, themes I hear in my mind that think are catchy, amazing, and conveyed profound emotion.  Me coming here was just a test to find out if I could convey these themes in the real, physical world despite being a complete beginner at composing.  I see that test has failed.  I have tried this test many times before and they all failed.  This was my final test and now I see that I really do need to fully study up and train myself in order to convey these themes I hear in my mind.

Hugh Mann

SuperMarioGamer
 
 
This is not a prank.  It could really be the case that any theme you have in your mind cannot be conveyed as long as you do not fully study up and train yourself on how to convey your themes.  You see, I thought there was a way for me to convey these themes right here and now that I hear in my mind.  They are, again, themes I hear in my mind that think are catchy, amazing, and conveyed profound emotion.  Me coming here was just a test to find out if I could convey these themes in the real, physical world despite being a complete beginner at composing.  I see that test has failed.  I have tried this test many times before and they all failed.  This was my final test and now I see that I really do need to fully study up and train myself in order to convey these themes I hear in my mind.

Yup.  But so does everyone else.

My post got deleted for whatever reason.  Maybe it was due to a forum bug.  But I will repost what I said earlier.  If you do not believe my claim that I have these amazing themes in my mind, then that all goes back to what I said earlier in regards to people who have near death experiences, drug trips, and dreams.  It is something I explained earlier in regards to how our brains are natural geniuses that are really capable of creating the next best themes in our minds regardless if you are a complete beginner at composing. 
 
If I were to become a professional composer down the road and I were to fully convey these themes I hear in my head, then if they truly were as great as I said they were and people really do think they are great, then I was speaking words of wisdom and truth all along.  But if I fully convey these themes later on down the road and it really turns out that they were not that great at all, then I was speaking words of delusion and grandeur. 
 
Nobody knows the truth for sure yet.  Only time will tell.  As for now though, it might be a waste of time for people to listen to the tracks I already have on my playlist if they are all just going to be lame, not that great, garbage, incoherent, gibberish, etc.  In addition, it would also be a waste of time and effort for me to create any more tunes and post them up on my playlist.

jamesg1213
You've made progress Matt. Don't worry about being 'amazing' or anything else, just keep writing and recording. There are no shortcuts.

For me, music is not just about producing a craft that I can be proud of.  It is more than that.  It is the very power that music conveys. I wish to create music that conveys powerful and profound emotion.  If, let's pretend, that I have produced a song that was painstakingly crafted, but that song did not convey any profound and powerful emotion and instead conveyed just a basic, average emotion, then that craft was all just a waste to me regardless of how much time and effort I put into it.  In short, if I am going to produce any theme or song, then it has to be amazing.

I think this is a prank, maybe....

The beginning, intermediate, advanced bs is promulgated by academics...($$)  I learned this early in studying guitar.  If you can write a note, you can compose.  Orchestration is a different ball of wax however.  If you want to learn orchestration, spend some time with Richard Strauss.  

Unfortuntately, we've all been brainwashed with that bs, because it creates careers for music teachers.   Hanz Zimmer is very advanced etc... Just listen to whatever genre you like and listen carefully.  If you don't know what to listen for, then take some lessons.    There IS a pecking order with respect to musicians and they can kind of gang up on you, but it has nothing to do with the quality of yours (or their) music.  Remember that and carry on grasshopper.

eph221
Mario, composing is like crazy eights, playing crazy eights...have you ever?

Music is very profoundly emotional to me.  I have created tunes in my mind through pure emotion (inspiration) alone.  There was no rational thought processes in the creation of these tunes.  So, maybe these tunes are gibberish since emotions are irrational and not a reliable source of judgment.  Perhaps I am projecting emotional judgments upon my tunes when, in reality, these tunes are nothing but lame and incoherent gibberish.  Since I know nothing about music, then I rely on my emotional instincts alone to create themes and tunes.  I then also rely on my emotional instincts to tell me if these tunes convey something catchy, profound, and powerful or not. 
 
Our emotional instincts are a different form of knowledge.  It is an instinctive form of knowledge and I use this alternative source of knowledge to create tunes in my mind.  For example, we can instinctively know that we are in danger or that certain acts, tones, and gestures convey something evil, beautiful, or profound.  But I think my tunes are not a random series of placed notes.  I think there is an actual pattern with these notes which means my emotions might have been right all along and that something more is needed to convey these themes.

...and start therapy...

Music isn't like maths, even for bach. Those who view it as maths and language miss the boat. It's much more than that. I think you mistake complexity for quality. Most of your musings are self centered. Music requires empathy. Work on those two things: getting over yourself and getting a better definition of quality.

Mario, I'd see a therapist, because it seems you're conflicted over something unrelated to music.  BTW have you heard john cage's pieces or any of the stochastic composers?  Why don't you pick up a copy of Grout's History of Music and start there?

No. But I think if you go to therapy it'll make you better. Right now you have the ego of a 2 year old. What you describe isn't a shared experience, and I'm not Cartesian. What you're describing is sensual dissimulation. Without the shared experience, you'll never know what is really loving or heroic. You'll just think you know it.