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Old 09-28-2009, 02:10 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default If you are a decent song writer:

okay, well i have been singing and performing over all for about 9 years, but i just always seem to get writers block when i try to write music.

im into the whole indie/acoustic scene and i would appeciate some help on how to write a song, thank you(:
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Old 10-05-2009, 04:46 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 10-05-2009, 06:04 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I have done a wee bit of songwriting... Well, just two or three songs, and I'm not ready to use they for anything yet. But I can't just sit down and write, what I have written so far just kinda came to me at random (dreams, etc.)
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Old 10-05-2009, 06:16 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I have to agree with ocean and silence,dont try.It should come natural.Or drink a brew and reminis.Get your mind relaxed.
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Write what you feel.

Write it how it is in your mind, don't try to rhyme or anything.

That's a little biased of me, since I hate rhyming, but it's true.

I would suggest a subject that you're passionate about.

I would suggest brainstorming if all else fails.

Do you read a lot?
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Old 10-05-2009, 07:45 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Is is music or lyrics you're having trouble writing?

As for writing music, this is how I normally do it. I usually come up with a progression of base chords, for example a simple progression would be Em, C, G played in a loop. Then once I have discovered a progression of chords that I like, I start to mess around with them - break them up, play them in scales or arpeggios, play alternate versions of the chords, etc. A lot of writing music for me has to do with messing around until I discover a melody or progression I really like.

As for lyrics, they may start off as a string or words that I like. Then I might add to it a rhyming sentence, or another sentence that doesn't rhyme, or sing them to a melody that I like. As I said, for me personally a lot of writing music is just about messing around and building on things that I create until eventually they resemble a song.
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Whoops, I based it solely on lyrics.

But I guess it applies, still.
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lyrics can actually be made from just about anything: poems, experiences, dreams, fantasies, protest, love, hate, etc...

the list is endless
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Old 10-08-2009, 02:30 AM   #9 (permalink)
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"Writers block" happens to everyone.

When it hits me, I just practice.

The best way I've found to practice is simpy to write stuff in a style similar to your existing "good" material - or, failing that, someone else's.

There's no shame in learning someone else's song note for note - every classical musician does that, as do jazz musicians.

It seem that in Rock music, people prize this non-existent ability to just write stuff with no prior experience.

Like I say, this does not exist.

If you are a composer, compose.
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Old 10-27-2009, 10:57 AM   #10 (permalink)
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I have problems with stuff like this all the time . . . I'll come up with 3 or 4 really good lines and from there I'm S.O.L but I never throw away the bases I get . . . if you can do something like that, you can look back at what you've started and add on later . . .
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