Post songs you have wrote.I am wondering if /mu/ can help me, I have a few songs on my guitar and I am a pretty competent writer of poetry and prose and I have lots of ideas for songs but for some reason I struggle to write lyrics. I get a few good lines but then somehow I just can't muster the rest, I don't know why on songs I specifically struggle so much but I must have like 20 half finished songs.I'm wondering if any anons could offer some advice on finishing songs?
>>129463093Put all your effort on a particular song you wrote and you really enjoyed its result instead of endlessy writing demos you will never listen to again.
>>129463093Post lyrics or vocaroo and try to merge half finished ideas into a single song
writing words has nothing to do with music, go to /lit/ or /LGBT/ you fucking hack
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Go look up Robin Frederick. She has a few interviews with Taxi independent A&R on YouTube that are great.... and you can get what you need without buying her books.One of her simple tricks is taking what you have and writing out some Questions then use your answers to build more verses/chorus etc.So if you had something like;You are the greatest girl in the whole world ever,I'd sell you to international slavers, no never.You'd ask the questions like:Who is she?Why is she go great?What does she look like?Who are these slavers?How did this happen?What do you want to happen?Simple but effective.I met her in a noodle jointin a Bangkok slum.I was smuggling gunsShe was selling drugs.I'd suggest you look into Ralph Murphy, too.
>>129463093post some of your prose so we onow where we're starting from
>>129463093Why dont you learn song stucture. you know songs have sections right... Pull up youtube videos.
In the majority of pop songs each verse leads to the chorus logically. So if it was the mid 1970s and you were writing a disco song this wouldn't make sense:verseI took out my chevy vanI got the oil changedI talked with old Gushe sounded kind of strange.chorus:We're gunna boogie all night.We're gunna boogie all night.... it just doesn't make sense... unless the guy is fucking old Gus.But if you had:verseThe week is finally overits time to have some fungunna stay out till morningnow the weekend has begunchorusWe're gunna boogie all night.We're gunna boogie all night.verseI put on my bell bottomsI got my dancing shoesI'm jumping in the chevyI'm gunna pick up you.chorusWe're gunna boogie all night.We're gunna boogie all night.verseThe disco is closingI guess it's time to goBut the fun is just startingWhen i get you to my home.ChorusWe're gunna boogie all night.We're gunna boogie all night.Stupid? Yup. But each of those verses lead logically to the chorus. The verses also create a step by step story. And there is a (not so much) surprise twist at the end where dancing becomes sex and therefore has an increase in perceived emotional intensity. The song builds. I don't think Gus got raped.
If you take the lyrics to like 90% of songs and take away the music they fucking suck. Dont worry about it so much and just put in what sounds good to the music
>>129468034What about a metal song?
>>129463093https://vocaroo.com/19fKhrvqFDMgbeen writing music for a long time, started this project a year ago
>>129472497my advice on finishing songs is to dedicate a good amount of time to the idea collection phase. like this song, I had the starting riff for about 3 weeks before, had the title for about 2 months before, then spent 2 days sitting down and collecting riffs related to the feel. then one day recording everything and putting drums to it. I'll put bass on it which will take another day, write lyrics and sing which will be another day, maybe a 1 day pass of lead guitar. each "day" is like 3-6 hours of work. I do separate the tasks and it makes it a lot easier.
>>129472497>>129472552my advice for OP specifically is to find a music writing partner who likes writing lyrics. be open to their ideas with the idea of growing.
>>129471731I don't know about all metal genres. Songs are all stories. You are communicating something to another human being. Sit down and look at your favorite metal song lyrics. There will be a structure just as much as there are chord, riff, and drum beat structures.
>>129471731PusciferSelf Evident:You're an idiotYou embody every bit of itEven set a new precedentEmpiricalConcrete evidenceMinimal due diligenceWe've concluded what is obviousYou're a bungholeConcrete evidenceMinimal due diligenceWe've concluded what is obviousBloody drongoYour voice induces migrainesYour presence party-poops the entire roomYou're an idiotAnd a bungholeOoh-ooh, oh, you'reOoh-ooh, goddamnOoh-ooh, oh, you're (your nature is pugnacious)Ooh-ooh, goddamn idiotYour nature is pugnaciousYour temperament deplorable (it leaves a residue)So mucous-like it leaves a residueYou're an idiot (oh)Goddamn idiot (oh)You embody every bit of itYou feel like a wet mudslideObnoxious gear in overdriveA walking, talking (ooh-ooh, oh, you're)Skid mark prat (ooh-ooh, goddamn)A Muppet and (ooh-ooh, oh, you're)A twit and twat (ooh-ooh, goddamn idiot)That's you.....................Same general structure works... The chorus or central idea is "you're an idiot." consider that a chorus. Everything in the song points to that one idea. Read any set of lyrics an that song and put "you're an idiot" behind them and they make sense in the song.
