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 together in my Cubase music software to produce complete chord progressions or accompaniments. But when I checked my text collections to find matching lyrics I found none. I didn't have melodies, anyway - just spaces where something musical should happen.
I had written "gonna do it my way" to fit in such spaces of a very simple accompaniment. There was neither chorus nor bridge, just two parts without a tune that I used for jamming with myself, i.e. soloing on top of the accompaniment. I invented the 'tune' on the fly while singing it. I don't actually think that this is the best way of creating songs, it can be done, though. "Gonna do it my way" is as simple as they come: