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DorkLink posted...

Also on the subject of writing music, I know this happens to everyone, but sometimes I get dreams where I hear decent music that I'm pretty sure doesn't exist IRL and I'm like how the fuck can I figure out how to come up with that consciously

Learn which notes are what by ear, just take an instrument and sing along with scales, then play a random note and match it with your voice, then eventually sing a note and find it on guitar, then eventually play a note and learn to sing the major 3rd, 5th, other common intervals

Also a thing that helps is start associating music with shape/color. I do it without thinking but it can probably be learned since apparently it's not a typical thing. That way you can wake up and draw it right away or at least write down the basic note intervals for whatever melody you dreamed.