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Post by Mojo on Dec 20, 2009 9:51:19 GMT -5
I have always written songs - I just didn't use to share them I am enjoying it. This is not an easy time in my life right now, and writing a song usually helps me, either directly or indirectly, express some emotions that otherwise would remain unprocessed as it were... I find that the last 10 or so songs I wrote came to me and were all finished in 15 to 30 minutes. Another 30 minutes to record, and here you have a song in under an hour. Writing the lyrics for me is the easiest thing. All it requires is my laptop and sitting down in front of it. Once I start, the rest comes on its own. Sort of flows out as it were. I notice that I write more at night than any other time. I have always been interested in writing. Heck, here's a true story: when I first got to College, I was very much in love with this girl. I wrote a book for her - that's right, a book. A whole dang book. I thought it was wicked romantic. She thought it was creepy. Guess it wasn't meant to be ;D
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Post by woodensaint on Dec 20, 2009 11:24:15 GMT -5
I almost never write lyrics or poetry in a single sitting. Often times I am lying in bed staring at the ceiling and a line or two comes into my head. I will get up jot it down and usually hum it for a bit before falling to sleep. I keep a notepad with all these musings next to my bed and occasionally I will pick a few lines and ask myself ok, how do I get from this line to that one. After I fill in the blanks and can hum a tune to it, then I dig out the guitar and try to make it all work together. I often find the middle of the night my most creative time, but I have a day job and though it is easy for me to get obsessed with an idea acting on it often destroys me for the next day.
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Post by Mojo on Dec 20, 2009 18:48:57 GMT -5
I am not that organized. Stuff that I think about when in bed'd better captivate me, or else it's gone forever
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Post by Mohikanas on Dec 27, 2009 15:58:47 GMT -5
For me, writing lyrics takes some time (few months). I usually write down every thought that comes to my mind... I'm kindda "dreamer" guy, so I usually need to be alone in order to concentrate and think of some really deep and meaningful thoughts for the song. I haven't done this for a while though...
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Post by woodensaint on Dec 27, 2009 18:33:36 GMT -5
That is Why I keep the notepad next to the bed. If I don't any thing I might have thought is gone by morning.
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Post by Mojo on Dec 27, 2009 19:23:45 GMT -5
The past 15 songs or so I wrote, the lyrics came to me in under 30 minutes each time. I rarely "edit" after the fact, so that's usually what it is right there.
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Post by Mohikanas on Dec 28, 2009 5:44:20 GMT -5
I wish I could brainstorm like that
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Post by Mojo on Dec 30, 2009 12:55:53 GMT -5
For me it starts with a line, and then a song comes... For example, I heard this the other day while walking past the TV room: open a beer bottle w/ your eye socket I have no idea what the context was, but I know that I will write a song with that in there
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Post by Mohikanas on Dec 30, 2009 14:39:05 GMT -5
For me it starts with a line, and then a song comes... For example, I heard this the other day while walking past the TV room: open a beer bottle w/ your eye socket I have no idea what the context was, but I know that I will write a song with that in there Ha!Ha! Well you wrote a bunch of songs, perhaps you've trained your brain for that now ^^ Well who knows, perhaps I'll work on the songwriting some more in the future, right now I'm very enthusiastic to learn some nice guitar playing ^^
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Post by Mojo on Dec 30, 2009 16:20:15 GMT -5
I have been writing my whole life, poetry, fiction, etc... I love the song format because it's succinct and can be done in 30 minutes
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Post by Mohikanas on Dec 30, 2009 16:33:05 GMT -5
I have been writing my whole life, poetry, fiction, etc... I love the song format because it's succinct and can be done in 30 minutes Thought so, it had to be some training in your life
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Post by 469roadking on Jan 9, 2010 12:20:26 GMT -5
I write music constantly but lyrics are another thing all together. I have to be really moved to write lyrics and then they usually come quickly. Thankfully our singer writes lyrics on every spare gum wrapper around. Mojo, If you wrote a whole book for a girl and she didn't think that was romantic, then she would have been a mistake long term. I just wrote a little tune for my wife when we were dating and she still thinks thats cool. You're freakin Romeo in my book.
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Post by melodeous on Jul 4, 2010 12:24:11 GMT -5
First, let me say one thing I've learned since attaining the double nickel age. Writing isn't an event. It's more than that. It goes well beyond the act of sitting down and turning everything off to concentrate on writing. It's a symbiotic part of your life where you begin to use your senses in a way that are much more attuned to all the events, people, weather, seasons, time, situations, moods, successes and failures, struggles and comforts and all that you encounter both remarkable and subtle in your lives. Its easy to let the daily routine and settled-in complacency desensitize you and put a sort of numbness on your senses. Eyes don't see, ears don't listen, skin doesn't feel, etc, in the way they might if asked to.
I have two young sons - 11 and 16 - and when we go out I pay attention to what they notice around them. I'll ask if they saw this or heard that while we're either traveling in the car, at the store, etc. It's amazing what they miss that would otherwise have been acquired knowledge - useful or not - from the world within their grasp. So, I keep harping on them to pay attention (it's free) and try to remain aware of their surroundings wherever they go. It's their (your) world, learn and absorb it. If you've ever read great books they usually deliver to you your own world in a manner that's most entertaining. All good works of fiction, fact and fantasy revolve around a central core reference that embraces everyone's sense of the familiar and then takes the reader on a journey or excursion from it but never leaves it completely. That's why good writers make their lives an exercise of absorbing every detail. They do come in handy. Okay, so much for Creative writing 101. The point is writing demands that the senses remain alert and once that becomes part of your make-up, the world opens up and becomes much more self-entertaining if nothing else.
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Post by thecomeons on Jul 6, 2010 14:50:36 GMT -5
inspiration for chord progressions and groves comes from messing about. the words can come anywhere at any time. i tend to write stream of consciousness poetry that gets edited when i think i have cord progressions that fit.
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Post by Mojo on Sept 12, 2010 19:22:09 GMT -5
All kinds of cool info and different methodologies in this thread. I love it. Thanks for sharing!
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