When I first tried playing guitar while frying I couldn't even feel the strings more or less play.
But after a lot more LSD and time I was able to play perfect 1/16th notes for an hour straight-a feat I could never achieve sober. Point is, it just takes practice. Of course writing and playing are 2 different things....

Nice! That can really get some abstract thinking going if you're so set in a specific compositional pattern.

TOOLS, man...

tools.

I've maybe posted this before, but it's still a great concept, encouraging fresh thinking that is also personal :

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/bria … lique.html

a few examples that have got me inspired this morning

"You can only make one dot at a time"
"Dont be afraid of things because they're easy to do"
"Give way to your worst impulse"

tl;dr

great write up. only thing that would make this better is visual examples and maybe even a couple audio ones.

Once I took a hit at this big joint and said to myself: "I'll make a track now, it'll be awesome". I ended up with the most retarded drum phrases known to men.

Really, the whole point of this thread seems to be ways of changing your songs to make them better, or just different techniques you can try. It may be pointless to you, but for me, for example, I can use this to find ways of improving my songs in a way I like. It's a useful tool. If you've got your songs sorted, then that's good for you, but this is valuable for people who are still learning. Maybe you even want to check out some of these ideas. Try them. You might like them after all.

it's time FOOOOOORRRR

i think if you need to read how to make your music interesting, you should probably stop reading and just make more and more songs. For me i just made a shit ton of songs, as the years rolled by i took things i liked from this and that software, ways to sequence drums and shit like that, until i settled in familiar techniques that make my music atleast interesting to my own ears if no one elses. I kind of find threads like this a bit pointless. but thats just me. hopefully they aid some people.

Its kind of interesting that Squarepusher talks about guitar after Hendrix, because for me it was that way with sequencing after listening to Squarepusher and Bogdan, sequencing could never be the same for me.

Yeah I used to write some killer fucking melodies that were happy, tried to have a good amount of variation within my songs. I usually failed because I'm kind of a hack, but my track Handheld Hero, which can be found under my ..uploaded music on this site, that was kinda the shit. But I got really bored making music that is technically interesting, even if I only wrote one or two songs that fall into that catagory. I just wanna write the most hardcore music I can and inspire playful violence at shows.

That's the whole point of this thread. To recognize and find styles and techniques that you–yourself–enjoy.

meh, i could make some prog track with lots of time signature changes and make everything "pseudo classical" but thats not  something i enjoy. if people criticize me for making melody based music i could care less, im not going to force something out of me that i dont enjoy.

Honestly, most stuff I wrote on drugs is shit. I loose the control over composition and instrument, as well as objectivity about what sounds good and what doesn't. There hasn't been a drug yet that was able to pull me out of a creative slump either.

Well, I guess caffeine and nicotine work to keep me going, but that's more physical.

All great techniques.

And gee, thanks Goughy:)