I describe my ongoing lyrics writing projects. Where I get my ideas, how I match my words with other people's music, which little helpers I use...
Normally, when I start writing a song the first I would come up with is an idea for the chorus. But as for "Spartacus", "Europa", and now "Ganymede", where I'm telling stories, I've begun with the verses. So here are two more verses for Ganymede that...
Post lesenJD, a fellow songwriter, suggested a few corrections. It is "tear up the town" not "tear down the town", for example, if you mean "having a good time". Then I had to change the sex since KJ only has female singers, so it's a "big ad poster boy" now: big...
Post lesenThis is a text I've written for KJ. The structure of the song, as I see it, is: Verse - Verse - Chorus - Verse - Verse - Bridge - Chorus fell in love with you at first sight couldn’t get you off my mind you always look unworldly bright sometimes I wish...
Post lesenI altered the second verse which I was not happy with, added a third verse, and added a part that shall serve as a kind of bridge or interlude. KJ told me that the song will be recorded with a female voice so I also had to change the sex of the addressed...
Post lesenKJ (Karl-Jürgen) has produced quite a few pieces of music, some of them I will set to words in the next time (do you say "set to words"? I know it's "set to music" when you create music based on poems or lyrics). Anyway, his music basically are chord...
Post lesenTypically there would be two different approaches to writing lyrics. It's either lyrics first - possibly with some kind of tune in the mind that will not necessarily play any part in the further process, or music first. Actually, the first approach means...
Post lesenWhen I write for myself I'd normally begin with a tune in my head and one or two phrases for the chorus. Later I'd complete the text for the chorus and add the verses, normally without a tune for the verses at that time. Two of my recent projects both...
Post lesenSo far I've written 31 titles for the Blues Rock band MotorPlanet from Bremerhaven. Plus a few additional songs where they have set my lyrics to music that were not originally written for them. When I work for MotorPlanet I'll first be sent a recording...
Post lesenAfter "Spartacus" and "Europa" my next historic or rather mythologic project shall be "Ganymede". Yet again it's Zeus falling in love with a beautiful human being, but this time it's a boy. Other than with "Europa" this time I was having a tune in my...
Post lesen... only two hours after my last post I've come up with a viable solution, at least I hope so. I'd come across the English pronunciation of "Zeus" which fortunately rhymes with "youth" - not a perfect rhyme, but a rhyme nonetheless. So, with a little...
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