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...
Although my musical skills are very limited indeed I just love playing the guitar. I can amuse myself over hours playing the same simple riffs and solo phrases all the time. Doing so, a few riffs have emerged over the last few weeks. I've pasted them...
Post lesenAs you will see, I actually did use ideas from my 'Bollywood vocabulary'. As I do rather regularly, I used rhyming dictionaries a lot. Lines like "whirling and leaping and reeling" are simple to find rhymes for - you just shift the words 'whirling', 'leaping',...
Post lesen"tiger" seems to be the only word from my little collection that I seem to be able to use. I've begun working on the chorus. The tune is very fast, I'm having difficulty even just distinguishing its short notes, and I'm wondering if and how Jenny will...
Post lesenI've never seen a Bollywood movie. I've heard they're screamingly colorful, there always are dance scenes and songs, some wild and unbelievable stories - and of course there is a love story included, and a happy end, I guess. In short the multicolored,...
Post lesenAlex was not happy with the line "let's get wet but let us never fret" in the chorus of "dancing in the rain". He suggested to make all four lines rhyme so the chorus will stand more out. So here it is: let's have fun dancing in the rain we get wet, but...
Post lesenI’m reading “Shantaram” by G.D.Roberts at the moment and have come to the part that takes place in Afghanistan. The mad man who guides the group of gun runners across the border from Pakistan has lost his family during a Russian nerve gas attack. (The...
Post lesen... the lyrics are, not the song. I actually had a tune in mind when I wrote the chorus, and I had a different tune in mind when I wrote the verses. I don't think they'd go together at all. Never mind! The mood is quite similar to "diggin' deep", and...
Post lesenJust a sketch at the moment, might become the chorus: I need to spill blood rub your face in the mud won't give a shit 'bout your pleading dance with glee while your bleeding when you see how it feels to be grievously hurt
Post lesenI had brought a dummy text with me so I could work on the lyric during my vacation. But, as I have mentioned several times here before, matching text with tunes depends much more on matching its meter, i.e. its intonation or the stresses, than on matching...
Post lesen... could become the next title - or maybe not, since there already exists at least one identical title. Maybe I'll use it only as a template for writing the chorus of the next of Alex' songs I'm working on: we have fun dancing in the rain we get wet...
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