On Daring To Be Different

This blog is by way of encouragement to do something different.

To dare to stand out.

To claim your own unique identity.

I know we're all influenced by what's around us. What we see, and what we hear. That's natural. It's part of what makes us human.

However, another part of what makes us human is the ability to express our own identity. And to be creative in the way we do that.

I was asked, earlier this year, to write an album of music for String Quartet. Around ten to twelve pieces, each two or three minutes in length. My first thoughts were "Why me?" and "What should they sound like?", and it was in trying to answer those two questions that I realised that there wasn't anything they should "sound like", they should sound different, exciting and new. After all, if this person had wanted them to sound like Mozart, he'd have picked a recording of a Mozart piece and used that.
No, he wanted something different, (and that's what I'm currently working on).

I'm sure, if you're reading this, that you're the creative type. You've had to learn how to produce what you produce, maybe by watching other people or by listening to them. Even, to begin with, by copying them so that you could learn how to put something together.

OK, you've been there, you've done that. Now it's time to do things your own way.

Are you, for example, using the same music as everybody else?

Do you hear someone else's work and think how familiar it sounds? And how yours could fit in so well to that genre? Stop and think! Maybe that merely makes it run-of-the-mill?

Dare to be different! Be brave! You need to STAND OUT to be noticed, otherwise people will just pass you by!
Be egregious! Be inspired!

After all, as a composer it doesn’t make sense to write something that’s similar to something else. I mean, that’s already been written, right? It only makes sense to write something new. Do the same with your videos.

Bob Good has around 300 production tracks available exclusively on half a dozen libraries, including Cinephonix in the UK and Music For Productions in Canada. He prides himself on producing high quality music, always recorded using real instruments.

Bob’s recent library placements include BBC ’s Masterchef, Autumn Watch, The One Show, Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom, ITV 's This Morning, Long Lost Family, Channel 4 ’s A Place In The Sun, Channel 5 's Age Gap Love, Billionaire Babies, Netflix ’s Al Hayba, Discovery ’s British Treasure, American Gold, France 3 's Au Fil De La Durance, Canal Vie ’s Ex Au Defi, Finnish Film ’s Spandex Sapiens and many more.