Guitar chord forum - chordie — Writing songs

Re: Writing songs

null@example.com (James McCormick) — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:54:42 +0000

Hello Don Mak and we are honored with your presence here in this little corner of the wild wild web! You have a great site - lots of practical and well-written advice. James

Re: Writing songs

null@example.com (donmak) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:39:08 +0000

Hey I am the owner of the site Blogging Muses and came across this via my referrer logs. Thanks for including my site with some of those great sites.

For David137, I have a few articles that I feel work really great for someone just starting out writing songs:

Good artists copy, great artists steal. So do songwriters.

Helps discuss how you can use existing songs to come up with original songs.

Songwriting For Beginners - A Series

Helpful for new songwriters, starting from the assumption you know nothing about songwriting.

Capturing and Remembering Song Ideas

Another series of articles on how to remember songwriting ideas that pop into your head at inopportune times.

Songwriting Tips Group Project

A place where everyone contributes songwriting tips in exchange for liberal promotion of their own personal projects. There are tips there for everyone.

Hope that helps, and if there is anything else I can do or if you have site suggestions, please let me know.

Thanks!

Don Mak

www.bloggingmuses.com

Re: Writing songs

null@example.com (american chaos theory) — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:51:42 +0000

It helps me sometimes to sing the lyrics as they come to me. Usually one line will lead me right to another. Plus it is frustrating to have lyrics and when I go to add some music it won't flow because there is no proper metre to it. I usually drum on my lap or table or whatever as i'm singing the song out loud or in my head and that helps. Then it's just a matter of finding the chords that harmonize. Then I start finding the bass lines and lead riffs and before long I have a new song. Hope it helps!!!

Re: Writing songs

null@example.com (David 137) — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:59:49 +0000

Awesome if you have any more info please tell me

Re: Writing songs

null@example.com (upyerkilt) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:43:42 +0000

David 137 wrote on Sun, 28 January 2007 05:48

I'm curious, does anyone know any sites devoted to song writing?

Hi David

I do not know when or if it is still going to happen but Pere ( the admin and oner of chordie) says he is starting a new site for songwriters to put on their own written songs in the form of MP3 or wav files.

Not heard much more about this.

thin kit is time for a question to the man himself

Ken

Re: Writing songs

null@example.com (James McCormick) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:44:12 +0000

Here are some links you may find to be useful. There are very many songwriting sites out there. Be wary of anyone who wants money to enter a song into a contest. Many of these sites have good advice and pointers -

http://www.irenejackson.com/tips.html

http://www.musicbizacademy.com/articles/songwritingtips.htm

http://www.ultimatesongwriting.com/

http://www.lyricalline.com/articles/19m … ingtips.ht ml

http://www.bloggingmuses.com/

Re: Writing songs

null@example.com (David 137) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:48:00 +0000

I'm curious, does anyone know any sites devoted to song writing?

Re: Writing songs

null@example.com (James McCormick) — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:20:04 +0000

As Ken (upyerkilt) stated earlier in this thread, sometimes it's useful to just 'borrow' chords and a melody and a lyric meter that somebody else has used. Here is a song I just finished that is a direct 'borrowing' of John Mayer's "Waiting For the World to Change".

I was attracted to this tune because of the elegantly simple chord structure and the great rhythm of the lyric - so I fit my own words into the basic framework.

Perhaps some of the other family guys (and gals) out there will identify with the sentiment of my version of the song?

based on the melody & meter of "Waiting for the World to Change" by John Mayer

We can [C]talk and laugh all [Am]evening, we can [F]dance the hours a-[C]way

Our [G]house is like a [Am]beach resort where [F]we can both just [C]play

The [C]kids are gone we're [Am]here alone, the [F]silence seems so [C]strange

Let's [D]open up a [Am]little wine, re-[F]lax, and ease the [C]strain