10 Top Tips To Prevent Musical Boredom 🫢

Here's 10 Top Tips to beat - or follow 😊 - the 8-Bar Rule along with many music examples.
What's your favourite way of adding interest to your music?
Music examples used:
sLayers: • 70's Vibe - "SlayerS" ...
Beautiful Dreams:
Glaze: • Glaze - LoFi - Chill -...
Dark Water: • Dark Water - Melodic A...
Champions: • Champions (Rediscovere...
A Taste of Italy: • A Taste Of Italy - Mus...
Nowhere toHide: • Nowhere To Hide (EDM) ...
One Secret: • Melodic Techno One S...
Crisalis Berlin School: • Berlin School - One Sy...
Where Were You: • 1 Retro 1980's Song - ...
Future Shock: • 10 BBC Computer Game T...
Christmas Lullaby: • Christmas Lullaby - Mu...
Goodbye Mr Palmer: • Chill, Laid-Back. Film...
Sunday Morning: • Sunday Morning - Chill...
Hooked on Christmas: • Hooked On Christmas 🎅 ...
Stars and Stripes Forever: • 10 BBC Computer Game T...
Carousel: • Carousel - Music For A...
Roshan: • Roshan - Melodic Ambie...
Traveller: • Traveller - Dark Chill...
Urban Clown: • Meet Your Friendly Nei...
Cuba: • Cuba Native Instrume...
Ambient Berlin School Track Breakdown (adding ear candy): • Track Breakdown - Ambi...
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro - the 8-Bar Rule
0:49 Its purpose
1:50 Breaking the 8-Bar Rule rule :-)
2:24 Transitions
3:10 1. Add another part
5:24 2. Remove a part
7:18 3. Change instrumentation
8:41 4. Add additional instruments
9:51 5. Create a drop
10:59 Transition examples
13:09 6. Change key
16:12 7. Add a second or counter melody
20:27 8. Add fills
22:51 9. Add another section
30:11 10. Ear candy
31:48 Summing up
32:15 Outro
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[@ToastandJam52]

Brilliant!!! Fantastic!!! Love it!!! Thanks for this one!

[@IanWaugh]

So glad you liked it, thank you 👍

[@mwmusic29]

This is a treasure trove of fantastic ideas and advice and a great reference for us all! Thanks, Ian - Cheers!!

[@IanWaugh]

Glad you liked it, thanks Matt 👍

[@RobertLiveMusic]

We have few teachings on TH-cam about composition. Thank you very much Ian for his teachings.

[@IanWaugh]

Happy you found it useful, thank you 😊

[@TheSemtexCow]

Great video Ian, thanks mate

[@IanWaugh]

Glad you liked it, thanks Chris 👍

[@DisciplinedCommotion]

Cheers Ian for the reminders. (the Cuban piece near the end... It felt like I was there) :)

[@IanWaugh]

You just need a glass of rum and a cigar 😄 Thanks, Tim 👍

[@DisciplinedCommotion]

@@IanWaugh we have Rum. :)

[@IanWaugh]

@@DisciplinedCommotion 👍

[@flashgord2007]

so true

[@IanWaugh]

Indeed 😊

[@chromatic-me]

Thanks for presenting this in a structured way - techniques which a lot of us use instinctively but it’s useful when itemised like this. I’m just starting out in ambient composition and production and I think my tracks “Drifting” and “Quinque” (over on my channel) utilise nearly all of them somewhere 😊.
I think one of your chip tune tracks was in 7/4?

[@IanWaugh]

Hi Paul - Yes indeed, I think many musicians do these things instinctively. Thanks for checking it out 👍
Future Shock is partly in 7/4 😊

[@F.R.B.Synths]

📏📐📏

[@IanWaugh]

Something like that 😊