Writing Songs

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billie_joe_fit King For A Couple Of Days Age: - Gender: - Posts: 3844	January 21st, 2006 at 07:31am Anyone got any tips on how to write songs? Either from the guitar point of view or lyrics. I have all these ideas for lyrics in my head but I cant put them to good lyrics. And when I make songs on guitar, they sound so pop like. How can I make them better? Is there a certian way in which to do it? Please post your ideas here, or what it is that you do to make songs yourselves. It would be much appreciated.
meggy72wants2bminority Geek Age: - Gender: - Posts: 395	January 21st, 2006 at 04:14pm Megans tips for making good song lyrics - -make sure you know what your song is about first! - make sure your song MEANS something... or the meaning means a LOT to you! just let the song COME to you in a way, like hit you! - for better wording in the songs, read a lot of books, find fancy cool words that are hard and hardly ever said - simple words make the song somewhat boring - if you want your song to rhyme and you get stuck, sing the abcs, and try a word that rhymes with the one your stuck with for every letter - you'll come up with SOMETHING!!!! - dont listen to music while writing the song!!!!
Matt Smith Admin Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 31134	January 21st, 2006 at 04:22pm meggy72wants2bminority: Megans tips for making good song LMAO@ your name.
Hippy-Faggot-Punk-Rocker Jackass Age: - Gender: - Posts: 1315	January 21st, 2006 at 05:37pm ....EXPERIMENT... especially with lyrics.......try unusual structures or phrasings .....and the best guitar effects can be found....in the strangest ways S.
Faith Addict Age: 38 Gender: Female Posts: 11507	January 21st, 2006 at 06:23pm Go to ebay and buy a talent - everything else with work out by itself. No, seriously, you don't need tips. Just do what you feel like and it will work out. Sometimes you don't need a rythm or rhyme, sometimes just singing what you're thinking can become a good song. Maybe just write down/record a stream of thought and them pick out the best parts. Sometimes that works
cheese_for_a_day Falling In Love With The Board Age: - Gender: - Posts: 6602	January 21st, 2006 at 10:23pm meggy72wants2bminority: - if you want your song to rhyme and you get stuck, sing the abcs, and try a word that rhymes with the one your stuck with for every letter - you'll come up with SOMETHING!!!! - dont listen to music while writing the song!!!! i do that first part sometimes..i dont know why thats funny..but oh well..hah.. and as for not listening to music when you're trying to write a song, i agree with that cuase then your song might sound just like what you're listening to
The Fool On The Hill Had A Life Before GSB Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 26154	January 22nd, 2006 at 12:41am I usually get my tunes when I'm listening to music. I'll try to hum along to it and then I'll screw up and just come up with something different. I came up with something just from humming along to my basketcase rington and I screwed up and came out with something weird. Lyrics... I'm having a problem with that too.
meggy72wants2bminority Geek Age: - Gender: - Posts: 395	January 22nd, 2006 at 01:31pm The Fool On The Hill: I usually get my tunes when I'm listening to music. I'll try to hum along to it and then I'll screw up and just come up with something different. I came up with something just from humming along to my basketcase rington and I screwed up and came out with something weird. Lyrics... I'm having a problem with that too. yea i do things like that!!! one time, i was listening to 'The Grouch' and came up with a new rocking christmas song about how christmas is depressing after a while ... lmao!!!!
The Fool On The Hill Had A Life Before GSB Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 26154	January 22nd, 2006 at 01:33pm Sweeeet. Yay for randomness high fives
Tre_Bangs_Hard Geek Age: - Gender: - Posts: 250	January 24th, 2006 at 10:52pm Just write something down and pray it makes sense....... but really i just write the things in my head down and then fix it up...
Green_Tre Geek Age: - Gender: - Posts: 126	January 24th, 2006 at 10:57pm For lyrics just write out exactly what comes to mind, no worries about rhyming/verses/if it makes sense xD After it's all there, start editting it to something that you would listen to yourself. Don't worry about what other people will think; if you like it, then it's perfect. As for guitar (this can go for any instrument, I mean, I play drums x3) just start by randomly playing anything. Slowly you'll find something you like, even if it's just one power chord or something. Then just add to that. Eventually it'll be a full fledged song! Then you just need to fit the words to the music, and voila!! Good luck <3 I know it can be hard writing songs, trust me
dysLEXIa King For A Couple Of Days Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 3542	January 28th, 2006 at 01:14am I love metaphorical lyrics. That's why I lvoe Jesus Of Suburbia so much. These are two lines of what I've made up so far (don't steal, even if they do suck) A single mark to paper and it will never be the same It can be covered up but the image will never fade All metaphorical. I was screwed up in the head a few weeks ago and came up with that while writing something down in class. o_0 But try to find something you want to write about and see if you can find something to relate it too and put it there. For me, the songs that mean the most are the sognst aht don't just go out and say something, they make you think about it.
Nicky and Cambria. Haha. King For A Couple Of Days Age: - Gender: - Posts: 2787	January 28th, 2006 at 06:08am I suck at writing songs. I've only written one good one, it's called "I have real problems and I cry" and it's in the poetry forum. It's so emo and sad, it just touches me ;_;
k-contentbarrier- Addict Age: 32 Gender: Male Posts: 14139	February 3rd, 2006 at 01:08am watch TV
Gustavatron. Addict Age: - Gender: - Posts: 12813	February 3rd, 2006 at 08:02am Learn to play some old country song and name it 'Untitled (how old is this country song?)' and send it to a record conpany. Almost how Simple Plan made it to the top.
Nicky and Cambria. Haha. King For A Couple Of Days Age: - Gender: - Posts: 2787	February 3rd, 2006 at 08:05am Gustav! At The Disco.: Learn to play some old country song and name it 'Untitled (how old is this country song?)' and send it to a record conpany. Almost how Simple Plan made it to the top. o.o
spill_no_sick Falling In Love With The Board Age: 30 Gender: - Posts: 8588	February 5th, 2006 at 03:16pm music first: lyrics last most great musicians don't write their lyrics until the day they record (Nirvana, Metallica, etc.
Kitti Falling In Love With The Board Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 5688	February 5th, 2006 at 06:38pm spill_no_sick: music first: lyrics last most great musicians don't write their lyrics until the day they record (Nirvana, Metallica, etc. Lyrics are way overrated anyway. I'd rather sing lyrics I hate with music I love than the other way around. I don't know about the rest of the world...
meggy72wants2bminority Geek Age: - Gender: - Posts: 395	February 12th, 2006 at 11:49am paradoxical: spill_no_sick: music first: lyrics last most great musicians don't write their lyrics until the day they record (Nirvana, Metallica, etc. Lyrics are way overrated anyway. I'd rather sing lyrics I hate with music I love than the other way around. I don't know about the rest of the world... i think that lyrics r first actually... but probably only cuz i like to write poems along with songs.... but i think that the music is just as important as lyrics
Rockaway Beach Jackass Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 1279	February 12th, 2006 at 12:27pm I agree with everything meggy72wants2bminority has said. But also, if you go to poetry.com you can search for rhymes, definitions, related words ect. if you having trouble finding the right words or something. I use it all the time for my poems.

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