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Post by Rusty on Jan 14, 2009 23:12:55 GMT -6
I realize that a person has their own style,me included. But do you sit down to write a song with a certain feel,or style. Is it a plan to write a song today that sounds like the Beatles? Or do you just have a line or riff that you build off of until you get to the finished product?
I have always been into recording and writing,and I just build off one component until I have a workable song,then it just happpens. I'm interested in how it happens for everyone else.
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Post by vanman on Jan 19, 2009 4:15:16 GMT -6
Well, I've never written an entire song but several years ago I was inspired by a thought, that built itself into a chorus. That spread into a couple of verses. At the time I wrote it it was poetry, not music. I had an idea of how it would eventually sound but no idea of how to transform it from a poem to a song. I sent it to a friend of mine and he to another friend and that guy took the lyric, added melody and music to it and transformed it for me. The cool thing was.... what he did to it- and we'd never talked previously, is exactly what I wanted it to become. It was a song to my wife and I was writing it for an anniversary, got the music back in time to practice it a bit and I TOTALLY butchered it on the morning of our anniversary, it was really sad. I just learned this past weekend from my friend, that the guy who came up with the music wants to record the song on one of his projects and is wanting my contact information so we can work out any necessary details. In the end- hopefully now she'll get to hear it as it was intended.
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Post by sanchofirestorm on Mar 22, 2009 22:39:33 GMT -6
song writing is a chore for me. the reason being is that it's permanent, and I have a heck of a time deciding what sounds the best. it's all music for me though. there are usually two ways it happens. 1: I sit down and do my practicing, then I go do something and wham, something will hit me, then I sit down and humb the melody while I start putting together riffs. 2: I will be at work and a song idea will just pop in my head, usually at the worst possible times. I learned from this to carry around a tape recorder (which I now have a blackberry) but then I have two problems that I am working on. 1: I just wright too many riffs for a song, then I have to decide which riffs go into the song and which will be on the drawing board. I guess I could make a 20 minute ultra progressive song 2: I have a horrible time with fills, lead ins, segways and all the "glue" of a song. I make all these riffs and all of them go together perfectly with the melody of the song, but they never fit together perfectly. 80 % of my song writing is trying to figure out a creative fill, and one that doesn't sound like a fill or lead in in one of my other songs
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Post by vanman on Apr 2, 2009 0:54:56 GMT -6
do you incorporate your fellow band mates in this process or do you each present to the group a finished product? If you tend to work together then lets say you have 10 ideas of riffs for a song that requires you to only play 6 of them....play them each within the context of a practice session and you all decide together what sounds best AND bring in other less biased friends, gorlfriends, wives, etc. into this "voting" process. You may need others removed from the whole writing process to help or even totally choose for you what will work best- they gotta listen to it, you are wrapped up in the moment, what is gonna sound best to your target audience is what is gonna sell the CD's.
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Post by Rusty on Apr 2, 2009 7:53:08 GMT -6
I haven't written with a band in years,I have been writing by myself nd doing all the instruments for years. So over the time it takes to write the basic idea,and produce a finished product sometimes can be as much as 6 months.There is a lot of ideas that hit the cutting floor and several versions of each song,ect. The rough idea,the basic song,and the finished product sometimes bear little resemblance to one another other than the basic chord progression..lol
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