how do you write songs?
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Adrian Ramirez
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Christian Roberts
come up with a chord progression that doesn’t use only maj/min chords and then write a melody in the right key
And obsess about songwriting autistically for years because it’s all you have
Noah Robinson
Open up a track in a daw and record whatever comes to mind for about 30 or so mins... chop out the good parts, create loops and write over them. Repeat until I get something I like.
Jacob Bailey
old sabrina best sabrina
Joseph Rodriguez
lol
Kevin Wright
Come up with a cool melody, chord progession or drum beat and build on that. Or think of a cool thing i'd like to do in a song or a cool element or thing i'd like to have in a song and then build on that.
Making an entire song out of an idea isn't very hard for me because I know theory and have practiced writing. I do like to have a vision or feel for the song tho, I don't like to just build a song just based on a riff or whatever.
Anthony Rivera
my usual approach is improvising on a synth until I feel I'm done, then listen back for pockets to add more instrumentation, continue adding layer after layer, in the process establishing the structure, and whenever I feel there's no more room for instrumentation, or until I feel the instrumental can't get any better, I move onto writing lyrics and finding pockets for vocals
Parker Brooks
>obsess autistically about songwriting for years because it's all you have
are you me.
i used to think i couldn't do this but things actually do come to me in the midst of the spontaneity and i'll be able to make it coherent, its kind of weird how it happens.
she is though.
i rarely work off of a riff or single instrumentation. 90% of the time i have vocal melodies, hooks, or all of the lyrics to base things off of. in a way i do feel that its limiting my ability to get better at composing music that's equally as attention-grabbing as the lyrics, which is something i've been autistic about perfecting since i started.
Andrew Turner
Might as well ask this thread to ask: how ok do you think is writing about things you haven't actually lived? For example, I've never had a girlfriend. Is writing about love ok? I wanted to write a song about somebody who I knew who suicide, but I don't know anybody like that (luckily). I don't want to be fraudulent, but I just don't have many real living experiences to write about.
Somehow I think you can easily get a pass for that if you write movies, theater plays, etc but people resent musicians who do that.
What are your thoughts?
Nathaniel Anderson
i don't see why you would even have to think twice about it. to take into consideration what other people might think of your writing before even starting is a great disservice.
there's plenty of people who do what you're talking about, and there's probably more who don't confess to it.
half of the smiths' catalogue is literally that; summaries/plots/paraphrased retellings of old british movies, poems, and morrissey's daydreaming.