When I write music first I do a few different things, maybe you could try one you haven't tried yourself?įirstly, I write down my song story or theme. Do you write music first? Or write lyrics and try to put music to it after? Personally I've tried both and I prefer making music first, but sometimes I get hit by a muse and end up writing lyrics first. You may even use the same melody from your previous songs but sing something different over it.īut anyway, that's something to think about refine your own personal technique.Īctually writing the lyrics for a song. You will find with other artists that songs in an album will have a distinct lyrical process, with similar words, if not the same exact line in songs, just sang in a different melody or key. I like that about my own writing and I feel it is original to me. I always go back to that and it's a little signature thing in my songs. Personally I always go towards a theme of false hope by singing about satellites instead of stars. Sometimes you also tend to sway towards certain words. What words do you write? Is it always about she makes me feel this and that? Or is it all totally obscure poetic statements with double meanings? Find out how you write, this will come in handy to refine your own technique. Here's a few ideas to maybe try out next time to write: Randomly? By this I mean do you just have a syllable count and just keep to it. There's a few ways you can go about it in my opinion. Do it every morning to get your mind started with thinking about writing and lyrics
It's actually pretty fun, you basically just pick an object, and start writing about it, describing it, and forking into different topics from there, set a timer beforehand, and when you get to the end of 5 or 10 minutes, drop the pen. typically I have to write a bit more and rework 60% of it, but this is the first method I've found that really lets me keep on a topic.Īlso, you might look up objective writing. But then, when I start figuring out a riff on guitar or bass, and start trying to match it to vocals, I look through my notebook trying out various phrases written down in whatever pitches come to me while listening to the riff. a lot, with this method and throw 90% away. I'm by no means an expert, but the thing that has really been helping me recently is listening to some good music in the time signature I desire to write lyrics for (ie, typically 4/4 or 3/4) and then I grab a notebook and pen and start writing this hybrid poetry/lyrics that goes along with a rhythm, but doesn't really have any pitch in it.
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