Members EdDrums Posted January 30, 2005 Members Share Posted January 30, 2005 Alright well my band dosent have singer and we finally decided that all of us will sing (switching) and we need to start writing lyrics and i need to know what are the basics or where can I learn how to write lyrics thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fido Posted January 31, 2005 Members Share Posted January 31, 2005 Great Lyric Site Tons of resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gc8jdmsti Posted February 2, 2005 Members Share Posted February 2, 2005 you can't learn it... you have to discover it and then shape it,look for inspiration, it' all aroundstop, feel, listen, observe emotional distress helps too, getting dumped by girl or other personal tragedy can be turned in to young artist's best friend MUSE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LDF Posted February 2, 2005 Members Share Posted February 2, 2005 Originally posted by gc8jdmsti you can't learn it... you have to discover it and then shape it, look for inspiration, it' all around stop, feel, listen, observe emotional distress helps too, getting dumped by girl or other personal tragedy can be turned in to young artist's best friend MUSE ^ What he said. I've never found any resources that actually helped in my songwriting. It's basically a lot of hit and miss. A lot of writing crap, thinking it's decent, realizing it's only crap, starting over again, and writing more crap. But eventually you begin to learn how to really write what you feel in a musical way. Ultimately it's a lot of hard work if you want to be good at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PhantomDan13 Posted February 2, 2005 Members Share Posted February 2, 2005 Songwriting is often like a process of distillation. Your first few songs will be awful. But you still need to write them anyway, because you need to understand what makes them bad. My first songs were filled with cliches, bad rhymes, and they also strayed too far from the point I was originally trying to make. As gc8jdmsti said, personal pain and the view you take of it can be really important. Your inspiration is your raw material. If it runs out, you either need to find some more, or go out of business. Another bit of advice is to listen to the great songwriters. They show you the craft of songwriting, and the mechanics and structure of it. I would say songwriting is 70% technical, and 30% personal. But I'd also say that the 30% of personality that you inject is usually the eternity between a poor song, and a classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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