[codq]

I'm not a SWE, but this is how I sometimes make music if I'm starting without an idea.

Take a song you love—or even a song you've just heard 15 seconds of—and try to recreate it, but extremely loosely, taking as many liberties as possible exploring directions the initial inspiration leads you towards.

More often than not, it'll morph into something unrecognizable compared to the source inspiration, and quickly become it's own thing.

Staring at a blank sheet of paper, or the the void of limitless options, is frozen death. Give yourself a limited toolset and an inspired spark of imagination to get yourself going, and incredible things are possible.

[inetsee]

I discovered a long time ago that I often get lyric ideas while listening to other songs, usually in the car. What I find interesting is that most of the time the ideas that pop into my head are completely unrelated to the lyrics of the song I'm listening to.