writing songs
Telemaster
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alrighty, everyone out there...i need suggestions on how to get starting writing songs. I've heard that you should pick subjects of a song then pick a title, then do lyrics, then do instruments, can anyone attest to this working, and give any suggestions? any good topics to write songs about?
My mind is not for rent,
To any god or government.
To any god or government.
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Eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken
Than any man ever seen
it's growing up just like me.
there's no right and wrong...
if you have some lyrics... fine... try to write some music...
and a title first might be a good idea if you don't know what to write about...
but i have to say that most of the time i just have a few riffs and mess around on the guitar and then i just try to fit some words or a melody... most of the words are just improvised... but it's a good way to find a melody...
did you know that the original lyrics for "yesterday" by the beatles were "scrambled eggs"?
well, most of the time there's at least one sentence of my improvised lyrics that i really like and i start off from there...
my best advice is to write what feels natural...
most of the time my lyrics aren't great but they just feel right for this particular song...
i always have a hard time to find music for the poems i write...
so, for me it works better the other way round... music first, then lyrics...
just one more piece of advice...
keep it simple (you can always add other things later)... the greatest songs in the world work perfectly with just one acoustic guitar...
oh, and try to avoid the verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus scheme...
Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.
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pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06
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just play and see what comes out. dont think too much about it.. itll never come easy that way
-d
and some take 3 weeks
its all really up to the muses and how bitchy they are going to be that day
i tended to have scraps of lyrics around that i scribble down when they come to me. then, as i was messing around with chord progressions etc, i found stuff that fit. usually, that lead was enough to build a song from.