Excellent suggestions, thank you!
If it were left to my decision, I would try to come up with something along the lines of an Archspire song…extremely fast, insanely brutal and dauntingly complex. You have been a voice of reason.
Technical death metal does not equate to romance lol.
Thank you so kindly for the confidence.
Since we are in very similar situations @tamaraster, what would you say your first milestone achieved was with the program?
Since I was encouraged to compose my own song after playing with the thought (for my DnD group) and asking for help here I can just agree with your assessment. I played guitar in the past but never really known anything about music theory.
I still have to figure out the singing melody but so far it is an enjoyable journey.
With the knowledge you already bring in I think you got this! Good luck!
Thank you so very much. How has fantasy adventure influenced your music style, especially when it comes to composition?
I am a passionate gamer as well and I’m hoping at some point, I will find inspiration therein.
Yup. Finish B2B. Hopefully it helps.
Well… to be honest not at all at this point in time. When I started it has been a long time since I’ve done something creative and it was like a flood gate opened in my mind.
A short summary on the background and motivation behind it. I’ve already written a bit about it in the thread where we post our original creations but to sum it up I have a long running DnD group and one of the party members started singing “I’m fixing my shield clang clang” and in the lore of our gaming world it evolved into a hit song. My bard composed a full song out of it according to lore and after starting B2B I finally felt like I had the tools at hand to do so in real life. I’ve written out lyrics, a chord progression and a drum track. Started recording vocals and… became frustrated after realising I would either have to let someone else do the vocals or well… practice singing. So that’s where I’m at now. I’ve gotten better at singing but haven’t returned to my composition yet.
The main influence while composing were “Joint Venture”/“Götz Widmann” (one of them died, the other one continued touring/publishing) because I think the genre of “Singer songwriter with guitar” fits best for my bard with a lute.
Then there’s Pink Floyd - Money from where I took the basic Idea of using not drums as drum track. Keeping in line with the theme I chose smithy sounds as drum beats. That turned out to be challenging since a lot of sounds are pretty high frequency so they are high in the spectrum and cut pretty hard in the mix. Maybe I’ll rework that part.
Also Gio pointed out that it would be good if one could recreate the drum beat in a tavern setting. So I worked out the drum beat in a way I can recreate it on a table with a clay mug.
All in all I tried to write more of a “hit song” one can sing/shout in a tavern over an ale than I tried to use medieval sounding scales/modes or something like that.
In the future I may be analyzing more of the medieval sounding music of bands I like. There are a lot of German (I am German) medieval rock bands (In Extremo, Schandmaul) or even bands who just try to sound medieval without the rock in it (Corvus Corax). Carmina Burana is always interesting regarding medieval stuff. It’s one tidbid of music history I know of because of the roleplaying background.
Many mistake the Camina Burana for Carl Orffs creation but the Camina Burana is actually a song compilation from an old century (dates are all over the place. Some seem to be as old as the 11th century) and Carl Orff was simply the first one to interpret it in modern times. He also didn’t interpret all of it just some selected songs.
Sorry. I try to keep it short but then it always felt like an incomplete answer. I hope I don’t bore you to death. 
Not at all. I’m not really a short answer kinda guy myself.
Medieval tones or arrangements are very interesting to me as well. There is a composition that I’m using for my warm up play that is very lute, flute and hand drum driven and I love playing it.
I hope she didn’t assume that I was going to sing it as well. She and I are both poets, so lyric challenge I feel confident I could do. Singing? You and I are in the same boat there. I would love to almost as much as I want to get good at bass. Might have to look in to some voice practice…but the composition of an instrumental piece I’m sure will be more than enough to make her happy.
I know it isn’t the whole story and like all of those music games it doesn’t measure everything but my UltraStar Deluxe (Singstar Clone) and sing practice app scores have drastically improved since I started.
Someone who probably is also willing to share his experiences with recently started vocal training is @Vik. I assume it would be more helpful for me to actually join a singing community but I just feel kind of connected to the community here. We talked about singing courses here. And since you’re composing you could do it in the range your voice feels most comfortable in.
That said I am sure you are right and she doesn’t expect you to magically serenade her with your voice if you haven’t sung before.
Would love to see her face if you do though.
I’ll make this part of my promise as well. Since I turned to this course and this community for support even before starting the project, I will share the end result.
depends on the audience!
My wife thinks you are my other soul mate for saying that.
I’ll take it slow if you’ll have me…homie. 
Haven’t read every reply, so somebody already probably mentioned this. But to state the obvious you do realize you could play 2 notes and sing I love you and she will love it, right.
Sage words from a fellow skater.
Yeah I know, but there is no challenge in that right? Its the difference between tre flip and tre flip to revert down a six set.
Yep. I get that too. Either way your going to kill it. And BTW, my nickname since I was a kid is rat. I adopted the logo but I can’t skate 5 feet without crashing 
Alright lots of encouragement from me, not many ideas. Soo confession, I have done this. It did not turn out well. Wrote a song for an ex, sent it to her. Yikes. Learn from my humiliation.
Well then Ratty, I’m very sorry to have imposed a skater identity on you but I have nothing but respect for not being able to ride. lol you are a champ.
As to the rest of the advice, it was so good, I almost want to write a song for you.
Be my best plutonic friend?
P.S. They’ve always called me Lucky. I need a clover…
I’m here for you 
My dude…
Love and rot,
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