Ok, I've been building a while but never really took the time to write a song or music for it. Just wondering where to start and if anyone can guide me along the way. I don't expect anything less than a simple thrown together song. Any help would be great.
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I been writing for some time now (nothing published or anything like that), and I write about relationships...news I don't like seeing....pretty much anything really. I usually start by asking myself what genre' of music I want my song too be played in, then create a rhythm on guitar and write the words as played. I'm sure everyone has their own way of doing it....
Happy song writing....
So I've been thinking about this as well.. As far as I can tell the Blues is a communication between man and his creator. This seems to have happened while the man was working like picking cotton and this would be working rhythmically or to a rhythm. Place the words to a rhythm and go. That'show I'm gonna start...
Well, there's two basic ways (as far as I know)…1) start with music (a riff a rhythm or both) and add a melody and then decide what you want your song to be about and follow the melody when writing the lyrics (and if you add more parts musically then add more melodies and lyrics). So, for example, McCartney had the music for Yesterday and then when he first sang it was famously, "Ham and Eggs, oh god how I love your legs" and then later he wrote the lyrics and edited and edited I suppose, or; 2) Write lyrics or a melody and then make music to fit them (not that I am a Beatle fanatic or anything but) a great example of this is McCartney's Paperback Writer--the lyrics were written conceived to a melody in his head (written on a paper napkin actually), then they made music to fit that.
When I have written songs in the past they are almost always done from the #1 method…I'm just stronger lyrically than I am musically I guess...
There are books of course about how to build a bridge into your music, how to know what key you're in etc….I would suggest three things instead: 1) Find some people to jam with who already write songs; 2) Learn all the great songs in a genre (if you like country blues learn those songs or Soul etc.)…it's like getting a lesson from the greats, and; 3) Bring your instrument with you everywhere…because you never know.
write about something you know and care about. start with 12 bar blues in a singable key. edit, edit, edit.
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