Not everything needs to be about the guitar

For the past couple of weeks or so, I have been making some music with my roommate Rob. He generally listens to EDM music and dubstep, but occasionally listens to rock and funk rock. Through making music with him, a person who's musical tastes are completely different than mine for the most part, I learned that not everything needs to have guitars in them. It sounds like such a dumb thing to say when you really think about. "Of course not EVERYTHING needs to have guitar." But when I hear music today and music from various time periods, I hear the guitar, whether it be the electric six string, or the bass guitar with four strings. He has musical knowledge in the respect that he has played piano for quite a while, but knows very little music theory, just like me. What he CAN do though, is hear a melody in his head, and keep it there long enough to write it out in the Digital Audio Workstation known as FL Studio via synths, claves' and other instruments.

Rob showed me a piece of music he had been working on for I'd say a week or two. He would always add new parts to it, ask my opinion on them, and re levels parts of the songs as he saw fit. Eventually, he came to a standstill, and had no more musical thoughts concerning this song. I looked at the most recent melody he had made, and I added on to it by transposing the piano melody onto my guitar, finding the key, and then writing a continuation to the piece. Adding on to that song showed me that everything isn't centered around the guitar, and that the guitar can still be used for writing, although it may not make an appearance in the song or piece itself.

What amazes me more is that when I played back the song, I was stunned that I had actually written that part, and that it got added into the song. It is as if a piece of myself is actually in that song and it represents just how far I have come as a musician. Writing a small part of that song showed me more about music and melody that I thought possible.