Comments on: To Find Yourself In Your Song Writing http://sheetmusicdownloads.net/sheet-music-for-piano/to-find-yourself-in-your-song-writing Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:27:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tronic http://sheetmusicdownloads.net/sheet-music-for-piano/to-find-yourself-in-your-song-writing/comment-page-1#comment-1798 tronic Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:43:59 +0000 http://sheetmusicdownloads.net/sheet-music-for-piano/to-find-yourself-in-your-song-writing#comment-1798 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.<br><b>References : </b><br> 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.
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]]> By: gtarczar http://sheetmusicdownloads.net/sheet-music-for-piano/to-find-yourself-in-your-song-writing/comment-page-1#comment-1797 gtarczar Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:41:59 +0000 http://sheetmusicdownloads.net/sheet-music-for-piano/to-find-yourself-in-your-song-writing#comment-1797 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<br><b>References : </b><br>G.I.T. grad 30+ yrs playing/teaching http://www.youtube.com/user/gtarczar 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
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G.I.T. grad 30+ yrs playing/teaching
http://www.youtube.com/user/gtarczar

]]> By: Allie http://sheetmusicdownloads.net/sheet-music-for-piano/to-find-yourself-in-your-song-writing/comment-page-1#comment-1796 Allie Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:39:59 +0000 http://sheetmusicdownloads.net/sheet-music-for-piano/to-find-yourself-in-your-song-writing#comment-1796 i would start writting and i think the rest would just fall into place<br><b>References : </b><br> i would start writting and i think the rest would just fall into place
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]]> By: Braqs http://sheetmusicdownloads.net/sheet-music-for-piano/to-find-yourself-in-your-song-writing/comment-page-1#comment-1794 Braqs Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:37:06 +0000 http://sheetmusicdownloads.net/sheet-music-for-piano/to-find-yourself-in-your-song-writing#comment-1794 <b>When writing a song by yourself, what do you start off with in the recording and writing; guitar, singing, dr?</b><br>ums, bass? When writing a song by yourself, what do you start off with in the recording and writing; guitar, singing, dr?
ums, bass?

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