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...
Isn't that amazing: I've written about 120 lyrics that have not been set to music yet - or that were written to match someone else's music but have never been published - yet none will fit the chord progression I recorded recently. Most of my lyrics seem...
Post lesenThere are two - slightly incompatible - concepts of copyright. The European understanding of copyright distinguishes between the personal rights, like being acknowledged as creator, and licensing issues. In the US these aspects are blended so you can...
Post lesenSometimes I like being cryptic ;-) But it's true: this has nothing to do with lyrics. But if you followed the 'story' of 'Rachel', formerly known as 'Darlene', you might be interested in how the tune sounds that the lyrics were written to match. This...
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... but many different ways. Here's Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) on that subject:
Post lesenI've just listened to the music yet again to check my lyrics against the (still only imagined) tune. In the chorus I need the stress on the first syllable so "Darlene" didn't work. Instead, I needed any two-syllable female name with the stress on the...
Post lesenThe FIRST VERSE I wrote - and the first (and last) verse it also will be - goes: no excitement, neither fun that was life to her nothing to look forward to inside something stirred It's rhyming scheme is X A X A instead of A B A B as in my dummy lyrics....
Post lesenOften, though not always, I use dummy text as a template for lyrics I'm supposed to write. It's my method when writing lyrics to match existing tunes. This time there is not excactly a tune, but rather a chord progression. Nonetheless, the method remains...
Post lesenI've written repeatedly about using 'Gibberish' or dummy text when writing song lyrics. Yet again, I've completed recording the accompaniment for a new song that still lacks lyrics (and, truth be told, a proper tune as well). It seems to turn out rather...
Post lesenI found replacements for the first two lines since their meter would not quite ("not quite"!) match the meter of the respective lines in the other verses. With one exception all lines end on a stressed syllable, yet the first two lines ended in an unstressed...
Post lesenActually, I think the lyrics are done. Yet maybe I'll add a bridge. That would have to be a posthumous bridge ;-) the big boys all jumped o'er the ditch bordering the meadow I was young, I was small, I just tried to follow I took a run, I took a breath,...
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