Like, maybe the reason you keep using the “same chords & ideas all the time” is a sign that you should…check some stuff out that has a different harmonic orientation? Maybe study a bit of theory? Try to understand how having a narrow group of influences might constrain your creative output?
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Well yes, getting good at stuff takes time & digestion & reflection & understanding.
I know, we all live in Billy & Jimmy’s world & just about everything we hear confirms to the KLF Manual structure
Spoiler alert: in The Manual they point out the problem with the music biz isn’t music it’s capitalism but oh well. Here we all are. The bad guys won
But there is a difference between internalizing something & spitting it back out - repetition with a difference - that puts a human fingerprint on it