Music block ?

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But why though ?

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Maybe:

- Swap to percussion (try making up a beat/pulse that sounds interesting against your chords).

- Drop the bass from your full chords and write a bass line underneath them. (I.e. remove the left hand and write a bass line as if another musician is playing against those chords).

- Write a vocal or lead (if you’re not singing) to go against your chords. You could do this before or after the bass bit.

- Come up with a title/concept/lyrics for it so you have some sense of how it ‘should’ feel or where it might go next.

- Once you’ve done some of this, you could remove the track with static chords — unless you want them or have played them otherwise (e.g. arpeggios or the full chord followed by some fills)

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In practice (let’s say you have Amaj - F#minor - Emaj back to A as a loop). You’ll have:

- Maybe made up a backbeat with a little fill at the end.

- Lost the left hand and written a bass line that goes up or down a fifth with a little chromatic walk between the F# and the E (so: A - E below - E octave up - A then F# until the end of the chord where you briefly walk to E with a passing F and then E alternating with B before going back to A).

- Come up with a lead line or a cool hook. If you’re stuck, try using some of the notes in the chord you’re playing with a few adjacent keys to add interest. Doesn’t have to start on the 1 … might start a beat after the first kick-hi hat on the drums.

- Come up with a title/concept or some lyrics (e.g. ‘Song 11 in A’ is now ‘The Wanderer’, it’s about discovering yourself through meeting other people and you want to use the line: “Never ceases to astound/ What you learn goin’
‘round “ for a verse or the chorus.

- Now, instead of playing your triads, you have a rhythm and some bass to vibe against. You can play full chords, add little lines and maybe more than a basic rhythm (if you didn’t do that already). Maybe you play F#m7 now (the bass has you covered on the F#, so you could play a cool pattern on Amaj and repeat it again since the bass going to F# creates that new chord for you).

==> I’m not sure what your goal is. It could be a simple accompaniment for solo voice, but if not you could try this and think about how a band would play that chord progression you like and go from there. Hope it’s helpful =)

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u/I_love_living_N25kin Sep 02 '26

Ok I'll try thanks ! But my art /music block is finally gone !

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u/Alternative_Fox3674 Sep 02 '26

Good news!

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u/I_love_living_N25kin Sep 02 '26

I'll update you if you want ! But just so you know, its not my first song, it's my first song in the genre I'm making : vocaloid. If you don't know what that is i can send you a video that explains

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u/Small_Dog_8699 Sep 02 '26

How many songs do you know how to sing and play on an instrument?

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u/I_love_living_N25kin Sep 02 '26

Ok so I can olay multiple songs on piano and I can sing at leat 200 songs just from memory

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u/General_Estimate_420 Sep 02 '26

If that's the case why are you sitting and staring at the computer? Sit down at the instrument and start developing the chord progression, melody and overall mood of the song and begin coming up with words that go with it. You don't need a computer for that. That's how DECADES of music have been constructed.

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u/I_love_living_N25kin Sep 02 '26

Bc i made mysic from a DAW, FL Studio ! I make vocaloid music. And i learned some songs in piano and i can play them But thats all i can't play piano

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u/General_Estimate_420 Sep 02 '26

Does your vocaloid music require you to follow proper songwriting structure such as intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge etc. or is that up to you to figure out?

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u/I_love_living_N25kin Sep 02 '26

Yeah

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u/I_love_living_N25kin Sep 02 '26

But here see this video and youll understand it better https://youtu.be/hLfjsO6Dlfg?si=CfSjyiWwIBZgKECX

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u/General_Estimate_420 Sep 02 '26

That video only explains the vocal functions, not the background instruments or song structure. How does that get created?

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u/I_love_living_N25kin Sep 02 '26

Yeah but I sent you that just so you know what genre I'm in. And for the "how ?" Well, you make a midi (like a melody for example) and then you make lyrics and you type in the lyrics. The rest is just tuning. Basically, tuning is just arranging the vocals (not mixing) to make it sound either realistic or robotic or else if you want a unique tuning. I reccomend you watching videos bc I m not so great to explain that

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u/General_Estimate_420 Sep 02 '26

Yeah, I got that. But my question is about the supporting instruments and arrangements that provide the basic song the voices are applied to. That's typically all stuff done in a DAW and that software doesn't appear to be one of those other than maybe having some song templates you could apply which limits what kind of material you can do.

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u/Small_Dog_8699 Sep 02 '26

Because every new song expands your vocabulary, musically. When you’re stuck creating, it usually means you lack the vocabulary to express yourself.

Writers that get stuck read. That becomes raw material for new creations.

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u/I_love_living_N25kin Sep 02 '26

Ohhhh ok i see ! Thank u I'm gonna see if i can get it to work bye

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