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View Poll Results: What Comes First In Songwriting? | |||
For me the music comes before the lyrics..... | 17 | 22.67% | |
For me the lyrics come before the music..... | 7 | 9.33% | |
It depends for me....A little of both it seems.... | 37 | 49.33% | |
I wish I could write music for my lyrics!.... | 3 | 4.00% | |
I wish I could write lyrics for my music!.... | 7 | 9.33% | |
I have no talent in either department.... | 4 | 5.33% | |
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Truefire just published a lesson with Ellis Paul entitled: "Song Factory: Birth of a Song (A creative system for inspired songwriting).
Much of it is intuitive, but it does provide some needed structure and ideas of where to go next. I recommend it! Rick
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Like most everyone else it's a hazy combo.
For me the usual is a line comes, whether pre music or as I sing. Often the line is pretty obtuse even to me. But then I turn it over in my head and find a story for how it got there. At that point I try to get a verse and a chorus. Once I've gotten that I can tend to get on with it without the guitar to some extent. The other challenge is do you keep the same measure/feet count for each and every verse or do you allow every verse to follow the lyrical direction. I do both but certainly some measures can be super hard to write to and you end up literally counting out syllables. This is one about my Mum getting dementia and us having to put her in a home. I definitely combined both approaches above because... Well there was a lot to say and I really wanted the story to be as clear as possible (without venturing into super literal Nashville revolution territory). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhpWzb0LPU |