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04-25-2006, 07:20 AM | #41 (permalink) | |
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heh, im not so much in disagreement with ac/dc being poetry, i just didn't use the right choice of words, i didn't think it was going to be payed much attention to but when i said poetry i wasn't really thinking into it, what i clearly meant was that lyrics didn't have to be overly descriptive and in depth, you people nit pick alot you know that? however i will not accept that ALL lyrics can be called poetry. |
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04-25-2006, 08:06 AM | #42 (permalink) | |
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04-25-2006, 05:21 PM | #44 (permalink) | |
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skiesofganymede, could you talk us through your own songwriting process? |
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04-25-2006, 06:30 PM | #45 (permalink) |
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My own process is probably pretty similar to what I've seen. Write guitar riffs first, have melodies stewing in me head, either use the vocal or guitar line to determine the next riff (like, what follows from here?), then go away put words to it, and maybe muck around with the strong structure if I change my mind on something in the process.
Lyrically...I'm all over the place. I maybe put myself in a mindset that's been interesting me, or look at photos, or mentally walk places and try to grab words and phrases that sort of encapsulate that, or get at some aspect of that. Songs tend to emerge. Can't write in a row. It's a really ineffectual way to go about it, but I usually end up with lyrics I'm not too embarassed by at the end, so I guess it's all okay. Philosophically...I think maybe words like love, happiness, sadness, are, to some degree socially programmed, or at least we're socially programmed to lump how we feel into big descriptive categories. But is that general feeling of discontent really sadness? etc. So I guess alot of what I write is about cracking open a mindset, figuring out all the mechanisms that keep it going, what it feels like to be in that 'place', maybe how that relates to society on a whole. Sometimes questioning my own motivations, because sometimes the way you justify things isn't really why you do them. I guess language is a tool for communicating the abstracted: things you can't possibly communicate by pointing and grunting, so ideally I want to push that aspect. At least this is what I aim to do...or aim to do adequately, one day.
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04-25-2006, 08:49 PM | #47 (permalink) |
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So are we posting poems now? becuase I'll do that.
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04-25-2006, 09:07 PM | #49 (permalink) |
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Ill make a thread.
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04-26-2006, 07:57 AM | #50 (permalink) | |
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A_Perfect_Sonnet, what is your songwriting process? Big3, by making a thread, what do you mean? Could I suggest that we keep the songwriting thread's layout like it is now, but recommend that people say whether what they are posting is purely a poem, is a 'lyric' which is not yet to music, is a lyric with a vocal melody only, is a lyric with a melody and chords or is a whole song with full accompaniment. Ok, maybe that's a bit long winded, but you get what I mean? |
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