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Kanno:
I figured some of you were in bands so here goes.  I always get stuck after writing one really good riff and can't figure out how to make good riffs to connect to it to finish out a song.  Any suggestions?

Thrillho:
Think of variations on that same riff, changing it up just slightly.

Are you actually in a band? Cause one way could be going minamlist on it and just letting the bassist cover the riff during the verse while you either do nothing or just do some ambient effects, before you pile back in in the chorus.

Or, you could just triple the speed, make sure the song comes in under a minute and call it hardcore, which I've done on at least one occasion and it resulted in something pretty good.

Chorbalan:
My advice is to familiarize yourself with some music theory it makes life a whole lot easier in terms of song writing.

valley_parade:
Bargh, theory.

imapiratearg:
Play as many notes as you possibly can in the shortest amount of time.  It doesn't matter if they are in the same key.  No one will be able to tell.

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