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Does a musical instrument influence the way you write a song?

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Kafla:
100% in my opinion

I try to write from guitar , keys and occasionally loops

I like writing melodies in my head and then trying to work out the chords afterwards

Even a different guitar makes me write a different type of song 😎👍🏻

MrBouzouki:
I'm mainly a strings man but most of my ideas start in my head as melodies. Sometimes just a tune but sometimes singing words that might or might not make sense.
I feel that makes me work in a linear not vertical fashion with interweaving melodies or patterns. Any chords fall out of this way of working.

Having said that, I do get inspiration sometimes from guitar usually using altered tunings, often DADGAD, so modal in nature I guess.

But mostly, it is just melodies in my head. It's always been this way. Maybe I should see somebody about it ;-)

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