I sometimes make music for my animations, but I have no formal training in anything remotely musical, and a lot of my songs end up sounding the same. How do I add more variety to my songs?
if making a song different does not make it different enough, try to actually make it not a song. it may end up being a song anyway, but at least you may have got a head start on the differentness by attempting to throw it out of its category entirely. it's like the old fairy tale, if you want to get a mouse to go to a different room, throw the mouse out of the house entirely, and it will still come back but it might come back to a different room