The Warbler
All this talk of writing makes me consider something I haven't tried in quite a while. Has anyone ever come up with a good way to write songs? I can take care of the music fine, picking out a melody tends to come pretty easy to me. However up to this point I haven't been able to write lyrics for anything.
I was sitting in the shower a few days ago, and came up with a method that has potential (although I haven't really tried it yet). What if we took it like one would write a book?
Grab a topic phrase or word.
Then write 2-7 sentences about that word/phrase, either describing it or attributing it to something, or going through a who what when where how type of methodology.
Then take each of those and expand it into a far more descriptive 2-6 sentences in a more paragraph form. So something with a definite beginning, middle, and end from each description sentence.
From there change the sub sentences to more typical lyrics. Make it rhyme if you like, put in more adjectives, simile, metaphor and what not. Also adjust the cadence to fit each other (as music hasn't been written yet).
Finally set it to music.
I know a lot of musicians tend to do the music part first, then find the words that fit, but I've never been able to get that to work, and theoretically this way, you could talor any set of words to fit most any set of music. Is just my idea, questions, concerns, comments, experiences?
Of course... It would probably help if I could sing with any range at all...
Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky? I think so Brain, but where are you going to find a pot big enough to boil that much vasoline?
method. I'm thinking you need to approach it more like how you'd write a poem. Don't worry so much about going from begining to
middle to end like a story would. Maybe approach it by thinking of an idea or concept you want to capture and then writing down
all the phrases you can think of to describe that topic in what ever mood you want to convey. Then say the phrases with the music
to see which one strikes a cord. Or you could think up one phrase you really like and write a whole song around that. Course this is
a totally unscientific approach to this....as in why are you asking us unqualified individuals and just research songwriting techniques
online. First google hit for song lyric writing tutorial gives you this page: http://www.ultimatesongwriting.com/song-writing.ht...
And now for one of my favorite phrases from a song: Shake it, shake it like a Polaroid Picture. ;p
So keep that in mind...whatever my message was. Or smoke weed, that always expands your mind.