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...
My first version of the chorus went: no, he is no war hero just one more casualty his accomplishments were zero some sad fatality I didn't like the similarity of "casualty" and "fatality", though, and it was rather short, anyway. The extended version...
Post lesen... by Daniel. He asked to keep our collaboration a secret. Well, what can be more secret than an public blog? Just asking! First step: listen to his tune several times (here Midi trumpets stand for the vocal parts) trying to figure out which parts are...
Post lesenI actually wrote the verses before I decided to alter the bridge. After rewriting the latter verses and bridge had the same rhyming pattern. I prefer them to differ, so I shifted the lines of the verses as well. This was my first version of verse one:...
Post lesenActuall this is "no war hero - III" since anti war song was the first post in this series. I shifted a few lines of the bridge to improve its flow: which were the noble goals again, the altruistic motives, and heroic deeds that were in store that had...
Post lesenI put down a few lines to see what I could do about them. Later I decided that they were suitable for the bridge rather than a verse or the chorus. This is probably the first time I've begun creating song lyrics starting with the bridge: what were the...
Post lesen... of hypocrisy. My song "Sabrina" - its YouTube version - was deleted from two songwriting forums for its indecency. Both forums are located in and frequented by people from the so called "Bible Belt". That's where people favor the death penalty, claim...
Post lesenI've read that much patriotic crap on certain songwriter forums that I think the time has come for me to write some 'anti war song'. I'm going to do it my way, obviously ;-) It's title might become "no war hero". I'm thinking along the lines that the...
Post lesen... are a common cliche, I guess. Since Dave Davies' "death of a clown" I must have had the image of a sad clown in my mind (which actually wouldn't do his song justice, but that's another story - fantastic lyrics, by the way, great imagery). One of my...
Post lesenCraig is interested in setting my lyrics (see: "two quickies") lyrics to music. Yet he suggested to insert an additional line in the chorus, and to add two verses instead of simply repeating the two verses from the beginning. To obtain a good flow I proposed...
Post lesenMusical meter and the rhythm of the lyrics - their prosody - must match to make a song. Stresses are more important than the numbers of syllables. An example: if my dreams came true ... out of the blue Both lines (can) match the same meter or tune. The...
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