Members Mark L Posted March 20, 2013 Members Share Posted March 20, 2013 Every now and then I'll be doing something extremely prosaic and a song will come to me'Osama Bin Laden's Dead' came to me as I was having a bath one eveningIt's like there are songs floating around in the aether just waiting to be 'grabbed' by an unseen antennaAny of you guys experience this, or am I going insane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted March 20, 2013 Author Members Share Posted March 20, 2013 Here's the Osama Bin Laden song, by the wayhttp://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10625312 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted March 20, 2013 Members Share Posted March 20, 2013 I get what I call pregnant with a song. All of a sudden I'll just know there's a song in there, I just have to go through the "labor". Often I won't even have the beginnings of a melody or mood or anything at all specific, but I still just "know". nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted March 20, 2013 Author Members Share Posted March 20, 2013 nat whilk II wrote: I get what I call pregnant with a song. All of a sudden I'll just know there's a song in there, I just have to go through the "labor". Often I won't even have the beginnings of a melody or mood or anything at all specific, but I still just "know". nat whilk ii That's a good analogy. I know exactly what you mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted March 21, 2013 Members Share Posted March 21, 2013 It usually comes on me suddenly and can flit away quickly if I can't address it. The good songs will often sort of assemble themselves in my subconscious and then, if I'm lucky, it all comes out pretty coherently onto the page. But if I have to work at it, it usually shows... I know all about the proper ratio of perspiration to inspiration, but it seems like the more work I put in, the more workmanlike the result. If you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted March 21, 2013 Members Share Posted March 21, 2013 I wake up a couple times a night with some new melody and lyrics banging around in my head wanting to be written down. I capture maybe 1 or 2% of these. Sometimes one will get stuck in my head for a couple weeks, with the details (counter-melodies, bass parts, bridges; etc.) slowly pulling themselves together over that period. After letting it stew like this for another week, I have to write it out so I can get it out of my head, and be able to move on with my life. They're sort of like ear-worms, but in a good way (usually). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted March 21, 2013 Author Members Share Posted March 21, 2013 blue2blue wrote: It usually comes on me suddenly and can flit away quickly if I can't address it. The good songs will often sort of assemble themselves in my subconscious and then, if I'm lucky, it all comes out pretty coherently onto the page. But if I have to work at it, it usually shows... I know all about the proper ratio of perspiration to inspiration, but it seems like the more work I put in, the more workmanlike the result. If you know what I mean. Indeed. But I go further. If a song is taking too long to write, I abandon it and move on to the next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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