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...
The structures of verse, chorus, and bridge look rather similar, but in my mind they have different tunes. I certainly hope that I’ll remember in a week or so what’s in my mind right now. If not - so what. This is the text (comments and corrections are...
Post lesenInstead of "we will party ... we will party all night long" it now reads "we'll be dancing ... we'll be dancing all night long". I knew that "we will party" was definitely not the language of the 19th century, but I found it funny nonetheless. I've re-considered...
Post lesen"outta control" is Karsten's dummy title for song no. 046. After checking my scrap book if maybe my ideas around "burst mode" might fit I came back to his own title and began inventing lines about being "out of control". First trial: I cannot help it...
Post lesenAfter giving Karsten's song number 044 time to rest in my mind so I maybe would come up with some ideas I've decided that I just leave it. I still haven't the faintest idea about a possible subject nor have I come up with suitable lines. Karsten's provisional...
Post lesensense of regognition ... were my 100st lyrics, and this is what became of them
Post lesenI was in rhyming mode today. And after finding that I've got stuck with writing for Karsten - the many triplets giving me the creeps, what the fuck can you sing to match triplets except "la la la", well, anyway, I decided to give Martin's cowboy suite...
Post lesenThe "cowboy song" is supposed to become some kind of suite comprising an introductory spoken part and three short songs. I've concentrated on the second part that is sung: on a northbound drive from Texas moving slowly with the herd one with nature, one...
Post lesenI have posted a few of my songs on the unsigned band web site. Bernd on UBW I also asked for reviews. Astonishingly, they did not come out as bad as I feared in spite of my rather lacking musical skills and crude arrangements. Spartacus: warm voice ,...
Post lesenKarsten's Midi files have numbers. I began working on number 44 today. Karsten actually has given it a provisional title - "shattered dreams", and since I had no ideas of my own I did a little brain storming around this phrase. I forgot to take the notes...
Post lesenMartin suggested writing a song about cowboys. That's a subject as far from my former lyrics as one can possibly get (I mention Jakaroos, i.e. Australian cowboys, in one of my songs, but that has been my only contact with this topic so far). So, how do...
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