How do you write songs?

[Sweet FA]

Pose? What do you mean?

This pretending to like music/be a musician malarkey. It's all a lie isn't it?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This pretending to like music/be a musician malarkey. It's all a lie isn't it?

Nob off, I like plenty of music.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

A genuine songwriter doesn't write songs. The songs write him/her.

Word.

 

[Sweet FA]

I like plenty of music

Name one.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Name one.

Name one music? I think you mean bands etc so here goes.

Guitar Wolf
Punk Bunny
The Dwarves
Lee Hazlewood
Royal Trux
World Domination Enterprises
Pussy Galore
the Motoramas
Bob Log III

And thats just off the top of my head, I'm sure there is more so ner.

 

[dirtysanta]

Name one music? I think you mean bands etc so here goes.

Guitar Wolf
Punk Bunny
The Dwarves
Lee Hazlewood
Royal Trux
World Domination Enterprises
Pussy Galore
the Motoramas
Bob Log III

.

 

[Sweet FA]

I'm sure there is more so ner

You've never heard any of those. Come on Suplex, this charade's gone on too long now.


e2a - ds, that is fucking horrible

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

You've never heard any of those. Come on Suplex, this charade's gone on too long now.

I don't understand

 

[Sweet FA]

It's OK, just titting about. I'm bored out of my tiny fucking mind. I've had to stay in all day waiting for the electricity bloke. Sorry.

 

[Fong]

I dont know how it is for other bands but for mine it kinds starts like this.

turn up at band practice. Open a beer, roll a spliff.
I might have a new bass line, the guitarist has a new riff and we;ll jam for a hour or so and let a few musical ideas flow. Have a flick thru the lyric book see if any ideas fit the music. If so make a few adjustments and rattle it out a couple of times. try a few chorus changes, a middle eight, a bridge (if any are needed). Once you have all the ingredients then you work on the stucture and arrangement which is just trial and error.
I dont believe in any of that theory rubbish. get a few good musicians together and leave them to it for a while and you can 9 times out of 10 get a template for a tune.

or a song can arise just from sitting home strumming and acoustic and tryingdifferent chord sequences, tempo, rhythms and then hum a melody. Writing decent lyrics is the difficult bit i guess.

This is how I write and i have written songs in the past, but now in my older age, I am finding that putting in the time (as a solo musician I think it is a bit tougher) a little more difficult.

I can put in the time to find the riffs and then layer it with a beat, then mess around with a melody, but I struggle to find the effort more then the time to continue with the piece until it is a finished song, rather then dumping it into my saved folder and starting another one with a different riff I been playing with.