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The working title for one of my music collaboration projects is Starlight. Just last week, I cribbed a bunch of phrases from a radio documentary about pioneer astronomer George Ellery Hale. All that I have to do now is arrange those coherently and add a few rhymes. If that fails to impress my collaborator, I may be forced to read up about Watney's bitter ales.
Cheers!
Or in other words i gave my teenage daughter some money to go to the supermarket and buy herself some lunch to cook at home. I’m exagerrating for effect (to avoid derailing into a parenting thread), but I hope you get my point.
There used to be a website by a guy called Axeman Jim who had some really good songwriting tips, it was more metal based, but he gave a great example of turning a dog stealing a dropped sausage at a barbeque into a set of metal lyrics.
https://www.coursera.org/lecture/songwriting-lyrics/point-of-view-pUQjV
Silly me though not having responded for a while, as in actual fact I may not have been all that clear with what I was asking about. I'm ok with lyrics generally (relatively speaking, obviously I'm still rubbish but less rubbish than at the music bit) but it's actually more the music I was looking for ideas with as nobody listens to my words anyway. As in finding things to represent with the music, caring enough about something to try to find a way to recreate that feeling in the music. The words can just be fit to it afterwards if needs be.
Not sure I'm explaining myself very well to be honest
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If you have words written down, hopefully, their meter should suggest a basic rhythm and tempo. Once you have that, try to devise a melody. Once the melody is established, the rules of harmony and counterpoint will govern what the accompaniment chords need to be.
You really need to stop running yourself down like this. It is not conducive to creative work.
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Take a break from the then and the now
Bridges built and burnt
Just missing the when and the how
Crap i know, but that took all of five minutes using the oblique strategies @revsorg posted above, just get something down, it doesn't have to be the greatest thing ever written , just keep writing until you find something you like.
The music is the same, take a chord sequence and rearrange it or write a different melody to the original.
Keep the chords and add something completely different underneath it, a lo fi sparse drum pattern under a baroque classical progression, you might end up just keeping the drum pattern and writing something completely different over it.
Going to try to get some rhythms together over the Xmas period to try and build from there
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All writing styles exist in their own framework which you have to learn, whether it's a novel, film script, news article, poem, academic paper or song lyric.
Band tunes are more rudimentary sketches - it's pointless spending time writing drum parts because the drummer will do his own thing, whereas the bass player and guitarist have good ears and will play a part if I suggest it - although I trust them to write their own parts too.
Solo stuff - I try to constrain myself to a degree - I have a definite idea of the genre/style I am writing, I have a pre-loaded project template with all the main instruments I typically use including a few signature sounds. I tend to write tunes that are initially too long, then edit them down.
In both cases, I have learned that while friends and family are encouraging, don't expect them to give much in the way of critical feedback, or even to listen to things!
For a great lyricist try clutch or the national
I feel like this someyimes you have to seek inspiration in new places
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