Music writing problem

[Berethond]

And another thing, I have absolutely NO problem with writing classical music. I extremely enjoy and admire classical music. My teacher and I both play it together more often than anything else. The only thing is is that I can't do anything else, which is sad when it's not what I'd LOVE to be writing. I do accept that a lot of melodeath is based off classical, but when I try and translate it, it sounds too 'forced', I guess.

sounds like the classical is roaring out of you.

maybe we don't need another death metal band.

I've got to agree with this. We can always use more classical music, and if that's what you're writing, then ... write it.

 

[BonsaiK]

Okay, so here's the deal. I have been playing guitar for coming up to three years now, and I have been writing pieces for about a year. Throughout this year, I have always come across two (and only two) problems.

1. Whenever I try to write a piece (I try to go for Melodic Death Metal) it always sounds like its a flamenco or classical piece. I'm not complaining so much with this, I mean, I do really enjoy and appreciate them both and am honored to be able to write stuff similar to it, it just aggravates me because rarely can I write something melodic, yet, metal.

2. If and when I do create a decent melodeath sounding piece that I REALLY like, I can NEVER write pieces that tie it into a song. I mean, I can write a short and simple little riff that could be AWESOME, but I can't write stuff to go with it.

If anyone can help me with either of these, I would gladly listen and reply.

If you can't write metal, don't write metal. There's enough people writing melodic death metal in the world, consider yourself lucky that what you're ablew to write is reasonably enduring and likely to still be viable after the latest trends in the development of heavy metal die down. Chances are that if you were able to write good melodic death metal, by the time you get a band together and actually play any of it and record it, music fashion will have moved on and you'll be just another "clone band". Why willingly relegate yourself to that kind of status?