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As students, most musicians at least start to explore the idea of writing their own musical compositions, rather than just play other people’s music all the time. These experiments often end just as quickly as they began because students feel that they aren’t any good at it, or they run into the dreaded “writer’s block” and they give up to early.
But composing and writing my own songs brings with it all sorts of benefits that I just can’t get from playing music written by others. But what is it that draws people to composing their own music? Despite a lot of students giving up too early, the vast majority of amateur composers and songwriters aren’t out to make boat loads of money or to pen a #1 hit that lingers in people’s minds for decades. No, in fact, most people who compose music don’t really even consider themselves “professional” songwriters or composers, even when they get paid to do it. So why bother to write songs if you have no interest in doing it professionally? Well, as it turns out, writing your own music has a number of health, emotional, and social benefits.
