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...
It'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...
Post lesenI mentioned that I wasn't happy with the line(s) "what we're having | must be retained". "Retain" is rather formal, normally you would say "saved", but I couldn't find a viable rhyme for "saved". A songwriting colleague suggested the line "is sweet champagne"....
Post lesenI consulted rhyming dictionaries and a book on English idioms, wrote and re-wrote lines that were supposed to form the bridge. In the end I added even more lines splitting them up into three verses, now using the two-liners that I originally envisioned...
Post lesenThe former version of "attracted to you" had some flaws as fellow songwriters pointed out. For example, the word "zest" sounded stilted (Donna's expression) and did not fit 'her' provocative tone. In do you have the grit" versus "how to get it" the meter...
Post lesenI have a 'secret' objective: I intend to prepare publishing a complete collection of all lyrics I've written so far as soon as I've accomplished writing 333 unique lyrics, that is excluding rewrites and co-writes (which I will publish in the same collection...
Post lesenYet another rewrite. I wrote "Motorplanet" more than ten years ago, if I remember correctly, when Holger and I began our collaboration. My own version was - due to my limited musical skills - say, rather unconvincing. Holger wrote music, and I adapted...
Post lesenI have two MotorPlanet songs to set to words, that means replacing some dummy text with something 'real'. Nici uses phrases from older songs as provisional lyrics which now serve as templates for . I got the first title done - at least I hope so. I call...
Post lesenOther than poems lyrics are meant to be sung eventually and so must be fitted into a song. That often requires rewriting and 'tweaking' them until they flow well with the music. There is also the issue of different genres and different cultures. Folk...
Post lesenI'm not writing (for) country music. But Craig uses my lyrics every now and then, casting them into country tunes. To make them fit he often adjusts their phrasing, making them more conversational (and American). Now, he had "cut and run" evaluated by...
Post lesenWould a "winning team" be better than "... must be retained". I guess so! The chorus for "what we're having" might go: what we're having is so precious what we're having a lifetime's dream what we're having is pure magic what we're having a winning team...
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