Don't feed your guitar after midnight. Also if you play Stairway To Heaven in the guitar store they will take you out back and execute you Korean style.

Do it on all of the strings your instrument has. It’s okay if you need to adjust the melody line to fit slightly if it exceeds the upper or lower range of the string, just make sure it sounds good. Make sure you take note of what strings the melody fits best on in that key

This helps you develop familiarity with the fretboard as well as laying out the melody in a more logical way, allowing you to see where the tonal centers are on each string in that key.

Once you’re able to do that try doing it on only two strings. Experiment with where in the melody and on the fretboard it’s convenient/comfortable to switch strings. Limiting yourself like this forces you to develop an awareness of the ways you like to finger certain sequences of notes.

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Learn how to play a riff or lick that you love. Then, tweak the hell out of that thing. Change a chord, change the sequence of notes, use a different picking technique, add or remove notes, just continue making changes until it sounds distinctly different.

Listen to an existing guitar part and then try to come up with something that has vaguely the same kind of sound/feel. Don't try to figure out the exact notes of the original guitar part, just go with the flow and if your idea kinda resembles that, you're good.

Experiment with a drum track to come up with riff ideas that suit the drums.

Take a couple of bars (for example 4) that make up a riff and experiment with changing around the order - example: playing bar 3 first, then 1, then 4. Tweak accordingly.

If you want to come up with something potentially much more wacky (tech death ninjas unite), write down a couple of intervals and/or chords you really like. Assign numbers to them i.e. 1-6. Plug into a random number generator to determine the order in which to play them.

These are my favourite methods for coming up with song ideas, especially number 1 & 2.

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i think the most important tip i can give is to think about the “horizontal-ness” of a piece rather than it’s “vertical-ness”.

what i mean by this is that more attention should be paid to counterpoint - the ecosystem of different melodies living inside the piece - rather than the harmony, which is a singular moment, an out of context frame, (a chord):

imagine having a videoclip with different characters in it, moving and doing different things. analyzing harmony is picking a frame of the videoclip and paying attention to how the characters interact with each other. analyzing counterpoint is picking a character and watching how they move and what they do throughout the duration of the whole clip.