It must be fun composing totally freely by playing. I for myself need the limitation of scales or modes. For some years I have made several pieces of music in all modes. The great thing about using different scales and keys is indeed the new ideas and melodies they give you.

@RunningonairMusic

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I generally set boundaries when i write too. It's just that i don't always know what they are at first. It sounds like you've done a good bit of exploring too. Choosing an unfamiliar scale is perfectly good approach. I intend to do something like that for some up coming projects.

Will try and put all those music theory videos in a box and use my ears instead. Sting’s Lexicon reverb rack unit was on eBay a while back. He purposely had masked off all the numbers on the dials….

@RunningonairMusic

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Ears are always best, even if the result only mean something to you. What's the connection with sting's reverb?

I wasn't able to write music until I left the cliches of the major key and functional harmony behind - I might be unpopular in saying this but I think the major key sounds inherently wrong to me for most pieces of music (I guess some great composers get around it by using a lot of chromatism). For me, using modes and starting to modal chord progressions and counterpoint without relying on the I-IV-V functional nonsense was essential. Then I discovered the tonnetz and didn't worry about keys anymore.

@RunningonairMusic

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Yes, I essentially agree. Thanks for mentioning "tonnetz", it seems to align pretty well with my point of view.