Songwriting Tip:
Zen arts as songwriting
The late Harlan Howard had a songwriting tip to take an existing melody and rewrite the words. Then using the new words rewrite the melody. This is similar to the Zen arts where students model the forms of masterworks.
The good news is that those masterwork forms--after much familiarity through repetition--become embedded in the subconscious. And the subconscious, if you let it do its job, will naturally recombine and alter the forms. This is the long way to say it’s probably a good thing if your work resembles other work you admire. How could the Zen arts and Harlan Howard be wrong?
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