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...
... and can tackle my self-imposed task, compiling a new - real big - lyrics collection. I'll check, correct, and edit the lot, replacing one or the other with an improved re-write, like, for example, "who I am". This will take a while since I don't intend...
Post lesenCraig needed an extra syllable in the name to make the text match the tune he had in mind, so "Rachel" became "Emily". Folk-Rock. Here is the song: "Emily" on SoundClick ... and these are its lyrics no excitement, neither fun that was life to her nothing...
Post lesenI will call the song I just mentioned in my last post "DON'T you feel it" - not "can't" as in my example . These are its lyrics: you keep beating | around the bush pussyfooting | around me I don't want to | urge and push just need to know: | where are...
Post lesenI've completed yet another backing track with not the faintest ideas with regard to the tune - the vocal line - or the words. The chorus is very simple. I just listended to the track and found that there seems to be only room for four plus four syllables...
Post lesenThis is the chorus that I wrote (the first chorus, the later ones are in past tense): the rush hour's craze took its toll a victim's spouse to console her kid, too young to understand, reaches for his mother's hand and says "I cannot sleep where the angels...
Post lesenThe first complete recording. Far from perfect, mind you. The guitar got too loud, I tried to mask it by means of the equalizer. I adopted the text here and there and added the lift that I had scrapped before. And I decided to use the whole line from...
Post lesenBecause the song would become way too short I'll put the second part of the lift in again, yet only once towards the end of the song. I like that musical part a lot, it would be a pity to NOT repeat it once more ;-) And yes, there is music! In my mind...
Post lesenI put the lyrics down in about half an hour so there actually would be nothing much to say about their 'progress'. Yet I improved - I think it's improving - a line in the first verse: I can feel your presence I know that you've been hanging around I rejoice...
Post lesen... of "will you fancy me". The line in the first verse now goes at unsuitable moments your image pops up in my mind ("impossible" did not exactly hit what I wanted to express) When I checked the meter by imagining the lyrics sung, I also changed the...
Post lesenIt's a bit weird: I write lyrics that I offer others to set to music, or I write lyrics to match tunes others have already written. Yet when I record a song myself I nearly always begin with the guitar track with not the faintest ideas as for a tune or...
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