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...
Sometimes 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,...
Post lesenI think I'll soon publish my third 'big' lyrics compilation. Publishing them in an ordered manner on a server that has an accepted and reliable publishing policy helps proving my copyright. After "Bernd's first hundred lyrics" and "Bernd's second hundred...
Post lesenProbably it was recording "chew me up" this morning that inspired me to write more 'weird' sex stuff. Fun stuff, actually, that I couldn't possibly post and discuss on the songwriting forums from the 'Bible Belt'. They had already deleted "Sabrina". Well,...
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