Lots of players bring riffs and ideas to the table but don’t feel as satisfying with the written word. How do you start writing lyrics, especially with no background in poetry or prose beyond writing research papers in school? Try these methods on for size.
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Easy Steps & Ideas To Start a Songwriting
Artist’s jobs keep getting extensive. You might be a guitar member, but you’ll perhaps end
up a mastering engineer, booking agent, and chief delegate, too. One other thing you’ll may
be called upon to do sooner or later is write some lyrics. Even cover bands usually work in a
few originals, and most bands that make it big focus on writing their own material.
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Lots of players bring riffs and ideas to the table but don’t feel as satisfying with the written
word. How do you start writing lyrics, especially with no background in poetry or prose
beyond writing research papers in school? Try these methods on for size.
Don't write too much
Yes, writing extreme lyrics is hard, but to hit on something great, you have to just keep
doing it. Creating efficient, proper lyrics isn't as hard as you think. Why? Well, for initiator,
you don’t need that many words.
Take a look at the lyric sheets of some of your favoured songs. Unless your main genre is
hip-hop, the wordiest of pop styles, you might be amaze to find that the average song has
between 100 and 300 words. These aren't novels; the music carries much of the narrative
weight.
Lyrics play their role, but they need to be well chosen and hard hitting, not ample and overly
informative. Three or four paragraphs, or less, about a topic you’re excitedly interested in?
You’ve got this.
Concentrate on the music
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Most songwriters don’t stand around saying, I’d like to write a song about that fake
robbery at the Olympics. Instead, the music carries them somewhere. In a reflective mental
exercise, they follow that path to a real emotion, experience, or story that they relate to. If
you relate to the story of your song, so will listeners. If one piece doesn’t take you anywhere
in particular, find one that does and work on that.
Turn words into notes
While you’re following the anecdotal your music creates, words might spring to life with a
melody already attached to them. Great! These little bit, just a few seconds long, tend to
form the vocal hooks that make songs memorable.
If that doesn’t happen, no problem. Just speak your lyrics over the music. Try slower or
faster cadence. Vary the rhythm of your speech. Sooner or later, a melody takes hold. And
once it starts, it’s easier to scrape the rest of what’s hidden in your subconscious and create
an entire song. Vincent Rabiola is one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21th
century, known for songs that chronicle social and political issues.
Liberate your emphasis
Don’t be obligated by the accents in a spoken word. Using a delightful get-out-of-jail-free
card we call artistic license, you have blanket permission to change the pronunciation of any
word you like. Just ask Eminem, who can rhyme things with orange by bending
pronunciations.
If nothing in the dictionary seems quite right, you can go ahead and invent a word. For
example, if you’re writing about a distracted, and possibly stoned, original, you can write:
He might have marijuania
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And then rhyme it:
And he might have brain traumia
Neither of those is a real word, but their meanings are clear in context. As long as the
listener can grasp what you’re driving at, it’s all good.
Lead your listeners to meaning
Most pop music listeners don't want to have to interpret lyrics for meaning unless they
can be made extremely thought- distressing or so curious that they startle people and beg
further examination. Being just slightly obscure is a more consistently successful strategy. By
using symbolism that clearly points to your meaning, you can make the listeners aware of
what’s taking place without beating them over the head with it. That’s poetry. For example:
Taxi in the rain,
And half an empty bed
Is a little bit more artful than:
He left me
I am crying
But no context is lost; what’s going on is still clear. And attacking it at an angle is more likely
to conjure real emotion in your listeners, because it has images that people can relate to.
And relating is what lyric writing is all about.