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To Find Yourself In Your Song Writing
October 26th, 2009 | 
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Are you there somewhere? I mean in the music you compose. How can you be creative in your songwriting and leave the imprints of your heart in the music you compose?
Have you ever asked yourself what songwriting and composing really is? What is the difference between composing and copying?
It can be a very rewarding activity to write songs and you can write your songs in many ways.
The creative parts of you brain can be more or less activated or you can stimulate the more calculating parts of your intellect.
Maybe you have experienced the same things that I have. That the demands to produce a good song can be contraproductive. The pressure stops the creative flow.
Many times it is more rewarding to just sit down humming or singing with a guitar or piano without expectations.
This way you practice your voice in comforable pitches and you can also practice the great art of comping. Yes, this songwriting activity helps you develop yourself as a musician.
Suddenly you find yourself with a wonderful melody in your lap. What to do?
Have you ever realized that you have forgotten a wonderful melody you have sung just a few minutes ago. It is a painful experience is it not?
It is better to be prepared for the wonder of finding a perfect melody. A recording device like an mp3-player or something else that will help you preserve your creative manifestations should always be handy.
Well, it could also be a piece of paper to write your lyrics and sheet music on.
It is a matter of faith. If you have faith that a creative wonder can happen you will always be prepared.
Another creativity trigging activity is to start your recording equipment and just start to play on your guitar or piano humming along.
The fact that you are recording what you do can help you do your best and if you actually create a fantastic melody it is there for you you improve upon and elaborate on.
Even if you do not create something fantastic you can sit back after having recorded this way and see if you can find something to spare for future use.
What about limitations? What is limitations and how can they help you be more creative.
Have you ever tried to write music to lyrics already written? sometimes this is easier than to start from zero.
The limitation of having lyrics already written consists of the fact that you have to write a melody that fits the lyrics and also recreate and maybe also enchance the mood of the song.
You can give yourself other limitations like deciding in which key to sing, what type of song you will compose, rock, ballad, waltz and so on.
Some people create the melody as the last crowning part of the song. They start with a rhythm, a groove, the chords, a nice bass part and so on. Suddenly it becomes easy to just put in a fitting melody on these backing tracks.
Triggering the creative parts or your personality may give results when you don’t expect it. To find yourself in the music you create is indeed a refreshing mental and emotional experience.
Peter Edvinsson
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To Find Yourself In Your Song Writing
Are you there somewhere? I mean in the music you compose. How can you be creative in your songwriting and leave the imprints of your heart in the music you compose?
Have you ever asked yourself what songwriting and composing really is? What is the difference between composing and copying?
It can be a very rewarding activity to write songs and you can write your songs in many ways.
The creative parts of you brain can be more or less activated or you can stimulate the more calculating parts of your intellect.
Maybe you have experienced the same things that I have. That the demands to produce a good song can be contraproductive. The pressure stops the creative flow.
Many times it is more rewarding to just sit down humming or singing with a guitar or piano without expectations.
This way you practice your voice in comforable pitches and you can also practice the great art of comping. Yes, this songwriting activity helps you develop yourself as a musician.
Suddenly you find yourself with a wonderful melody in your lap. What to do?
Have you ever realized that you have forgotten a wonderful melody you have sung just a few minutes ago. It is a painful experience is it not?
It is better to be prepared for the wonder of finding a perfect melody. A recording device like an mp3-player or something else that will help you preserve your creative manifestations should always be handy.
Well, it could also be a piece of paper to write your lyrics and sheet music on.
It is a matter of faith. If you have faith that a creative wonder can happen you will always be prepared.
Another creativity trigging activity is to start your recording equipment and just start to play on your guitar or piano humming along.
The fact that you are recording what you do can help you do your best and if you actually create a fantastic melody it is there for you you improve upon and elaborate on.
Even if you do not create something fantastic you can sit back after having recorded this way and see if you can find something to spare for future use.
What about limitations? What is limitations and how can they help you be more creative.
Have you ever tried to write music to lyrics already written? sometimes this is easier than to start from zero.
The limitation of having lyrics already written consists of the fact that you have to write a melody that fits the lyrics and also recreate and maybe also enchance the mood of the song.
You can give yourself other limitations like deciding in which key to sing, what type of song you will compose, rock, ballad, waltz and so on.
Some people create the melody as the last crowning part of the song. They start with a rhythm, a groove, the chords, a nice bass part and so on. Suddenly it becomes easy to just put in a fitting melody on these backing tracks.
Triggering the creative parts or your personality may give results when you don’t expect it. To find yourself in the music you create is indeed a refreshing mental and emotional experience.
Peter Edvinsson
http://www.articlesbase.com/music-articles/to-find-yourself-in-your-song-writing-129921.html
Posted in sheet music for piano
4 Responses to “To Find Yourself In Your Song Writing”
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Braqs says:
When writing a song by yourself, what do you start off with in the recording and writing; guitar, singing, dr?
ums, bass? -
i would start writting and i think the rest would just fall into place
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each song can be different. Some songs start with a vocal line or a whole lyrical idea. Others start with a catchy guitar riff and I expand from there. Still other ideas come out of messing around with a chord progression and a vocal idea just falls in place. I’ll even get some ideas by improvising drum and bass parts on a sequencer. If you check out my link you can see examples of all of these methods
References :
G.I.T. grad 30+ yrs playing/teaching
http://www.youtube.com/user/gtarczar -
There are almost as many different ways of approaching songwriting as there are songs… well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the gist is true.
As a rule of thumb, if you are writing and recording everything yourself, it is normally easier to start with the drums and sync everything to them. Of course, that only works if you know how you want the song to progress so that you can build a drum track with the changes in the right places. Early in the process I will often have a drum track that I know I will use for most of the song so that I can begin composing different parts and tracking them out to see what they sound like together. This gives me an idea for the tones I’m using, how mixing will go when I’m done, and helps me develop ideas for changes.
Then I may have to go back and re-record the drums so that the whole track is laid out, and I may or may not be able to use some of the other parts I recorded earlier. This means I may have 2 or 3 early versions of the track before the final.
Sometimes this isn’t necessary at all. I often have the whole idea in my head before I begin recording, so I already know where all the changes are and how the drums need to fit in.
To give you a reverse example, here is a track I built in a very counterintuitive way…
http://www.myotherdrive.com/dyn/file/494.294113.10072009.75725.6a64fi/Playa+Perezosa.mp3…I recorded the bass track about 10 years ago and had noodled with it once in a while since then. When my friend wanted a dub track in the background of a film project he was working on, I decided to build a track around that bass. In this case I recorded the rhythm guitar parts and the ambient parts first, then laid the drums in last. The result is not as clean and precise as it would have been had I started with the drums, and if it were not something to just play in the background I would have begun again starting with the drums and working around that.
To sum up, I guess my advice is to try laying down some of the parts as you hear them organized in your head, but don’t expect to nail the track and be satisfied with it on the first run. Take the first go as your practice so that the next one will be more clean and effective overall.
…sorry, got a little long winded there …I’ll shut up now.
References :
When writing a song by yourself, what do you start off with in the recording and writing; guitar, singing, dr?
ums, bass?
i would start writting and i think the rest would just fall into place
References :
each song can be different. Some songs start with a vocal line or a whole lyrical idea. Others start with a catchy guitar riff and I expand from there. Still other ideas come out of messing around with a chord progression and a vocal idea just falls in place. I’ll even get some ideas by improvising drum and bass parts on a sequencer. If you check out my link you can see examples of all of these methods
References :
G.I.T. grad 30+ yrs playing/teaching
http://www.youtube.com/user/gtarczar
There are almost as many different ways of approaching songwriting as there are songs… well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the gist is true.
As a rule of thumb, if you are writing and recording everything yourself, it is normally easier to start with the drums and sync everything to them. Of course, that only works if you know how you want the song to progress so that you can build a drum track with the changes in the right places. Early in the process I will often have a drum track that I know I will use for most of the song so that I can begin composing different parts and tracking them out to see what they sound like together. This gives me an idea for the tones I’m using, how mixing will go when I’m done, and helps me develop ideas for changes.
Then I may have to go back and re-record the drums so that the whole track is laid out, and I may or may not be able to use some of the other parts I recorded earlier. This means I may have 2 or 3 early versions of the track before the final.
Sometimes this isn’t necessary at all. I often have the whole idea in my head before I begin recording, so I already know where all the changes are and how the drums need to fit in.
To give you a reverse example, here is a track I built in a very counterintuitive way…
http://www.myotherdrive.com/dyn/file/494.294113.10072009.75725.6a64fi/Playa+Perezosa.mp3
…I recorded the bass track about 10 years ago and had noodled with it once in a while since then. When my friend wanted a dub track in the background of a film project he was working on, I decided to build a track around that bass. In this case I recorded the rhythm guitar parts and the ambient parts first, then laid the drums in last. The result is not as clean and precise as it would have been had I started with the drums, and if it were not something to just play in the background I would have begun again starting with the drums and working around that.
To sum up, I guess my advice is to try laying down some of the parts as you hear them organized in your head, but don’t expect to nail the track and be satisfied with it on the first run. Take the first go as your practice so that the next one will be more clean and effective overall.
…sorry, got a little long winded there …I’ll shut up now.
References :