The Best Music to Listen to While Writing
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Music is an essential part of my writing process. Here are my best recommendations for what to listen to when writing certain genres and moods.
PLAYLISTS
Music for Writing Sad Scenes: open.spotify.com/playlist/1hO...
Music for Writing Action: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Mo...
Music for Writing Sci-Fi: open.spotify.com/playlist/2z9...
Music for Writing Mystery: open.spotify.com/playlist/5gZ...
Music for Writing Fantasy: open.spotify.com/playlist/6mt...
Music for Writing Horror: open.spotify.com/playlist/0YH...
You can find music I've composed, including the soundtrack to my sci-fi film The Nature of Reality, here: www.graysontaylor.info/music
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Prelude
0:46 - Sad Scenes
1:28 - Action
2:30 - Sci-Fi
3:07 - Mystery
3:51 - Fantasy
4:26 - Horror
5:07 - Coda
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I'm Grayson Taylor, an author and filmmaker, here to help you on your creative journey by sharing what I've learned-and what I'm still learning-about storytelling. After writing my first full-length novel when I was seven, I've authored more than a dozen action-adventure, sci-fi, mystery, and dystopian books. I've also written and directed several short films, composed music, and acted onstage, on TV, and in films.
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Pop-punk (like Heart Attack Man), Midwest emo (also like Heart Attack Man), hardcore (like Turnstile), and heavy blues rock (like Royal Blood) are my main inspiration. Particularly Midwest emo and pop-punk convey deep-rooted and relatable stories that I personally think make for good inspiration, especially characters. The other two convey less deep meanings and stories, but they’re catchy and high-energy, perfect for action scenes
You should add Dune soundtrack by Zimmer to the Sci Fi one
Just did! Thanks for the reminder-I've been enjoying the soundtrack of both films lately, but forgot to add them to the playlist initially.
I have a playlist of around 800 songs from osts to indie music that i use for most activities where i want music like writing, they say variety is the spice of life, and my mouth is on fire
edit: its always on shuffle
Me with the Summoning Salt soundtrack in the side tab every time I do quite literally anything
I love the leftovers
I LOVEE listening to John Williams’s music for writing (especially his Harry Potter scores). Unfortunately, his soundtracks are so good sometimes that I get distracted😭
Ooh, yeah, stranger things. My MG series is basically Stranger Things for kids, no swearing or horror, but very a similar feeling to the show
Middle schoolers searching for the cryptids of their small town (not exactly ST but gives me the same feeling)
I absolutely love writing to Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department. Idk I just enjoy writing while listening to songs I can hum or sing to, specially coming from my favorite artist.
I listen to the playlist that the Tale Foundry here on RUclips put together. I think there are three and just short of an hour each. Ambient background music, not distracting at all.
Absolutely, I've written a couple stories with Tale Foundry's playlists
I love Interstellar! it's such a beautiful soundtrack overall, Murph is such an underrated track.
For fantasy, my suggestion is taking a listen to Thomas Bergersen's album "Seven" particularly "Return to Sender." It is just so beautiful and full of emotion.
I'll check it out!
I do the instrumental thing, too, but I also listen to music with lyrics that aren't in English, so I can't understand them and start singing along, at least until I get to know them too well For example, Jeremy Dutcher. He sings in his mother's language, Wolastoq (east coast Canada and Maine Indigenous), and he's a mix of classical, traditional Indigenous, synth, and postmodern. Go find him: he's wonderful. I don't know if you can do vocals at all while writing, but until I learned his material too well, it worked for me.
Thanks for the recommendation! I hadn't thought about listening to music with non-English lyrics, but that opens up a whole world of music to listen to while writing.
Thank you so much for providing sources even musical inspiration. Just wondering, what did you use to compose the music on your film? I am trying to do this myself. Any resources?
The soundtrack of Vice by Nicholas Britell, specifically the track, The Lineman In E Flat Minor. It has such a powerful and inspiring feel to it with an iconic melody as well. The entire soundtrack is not talked about enough.
I agree completely! I love that soundtrack; I've been listening to it a lot lately.
Now those are some good recommendations!
Thanks! 🎶
A stupid and often short, but meaningful and full life.
Oops you had a misspelling! Didn't you mean "muzak" not "music"?
LOL appreciate your video really good!
do you have recommendations for finding these? like if I want to write a sad scene, but I don't have any more that I know, how do you find more music related to the scenes pictured?
What if you're studying music while also writing? XD