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Post by Administrator on Oct 29, 2007 18:19:46 GMT
Many inexperienced songwriters begin by writing a lyric that looks like a poem, complete with nice rhymes and a regular, sing-song meter. What you get when you write lyrics without music is usually bad poetry. So, let's say you want to write a song but you don't play a musical instrument, here's what you do: Pick a song that already exists and write new words to it. Call this pre-existing song the ghost song because you are going to use it as a pattern on which to base your lyrics, then it's going to vanish completely! If you have a favorite artist in the genre you'd like to write your song in, use one of their songs as the ghost song. Play the song until you are familiar with the melody and can hum it to yourself.
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Post by db on Nov 7, 2007 1:54:45 GMT
Many inexperienced songwriters begin by writing a lyric that looks like a poem, complete with nice rhymes and a regular, sing-song meter. What you get when you write lyrics without music is usually bad poetry. So, let's say you want to write a song but you don't play a musical instrument, here's what you do: Pick a song that already exists and write new words to it. Call this pre-existing song the ghost song because you are going to use it as a pattern on which to base your lyrics, then it's going to vanish completely! If you have a favorite artist in the genre you'd like to write your song in, use one of their songs as the ghost song. Play the song until you are familiar with the melody and can hum it to yourself. I wouldn't call it inexperience, but a starting point as some great song writers did this and then developed their ideas. Phil lynot of Thin Lizzy did this on a regular basis. So its down to experimentation for the individual to find there perferd writing style. Some writers find it essayer to work from a song title. As some come up with a concept of an album. Thing is, be prepared to get your ideas down when they start to flow. AS in most cases personally they always come at the wrong time.
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