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Sep 23 2010 03:25pm
I've got a bunch of ideas for songs but I'm not sure how to write whats in my head into a good song.

Should I simply just start writing and try to improve what I've written until it sounds like a song?
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Sep 24 2010 08:14pm
Quote (ZeroCc @ Sep 23 2010 04:25pm)
I've got a bunch of ideas for songs but I'm not sure how to write whats in my head into a good song.

Should I simply just start writing and try to improve what I've written until it sounds like a song?


If you can, record the riffs that you like. It's kinda like drawing a picture: at first you may like it, but later not so much. Keep the goodies, toss the baddies.
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Sep 30 2010 10:57am
I've been having trouble writing songs.

I usually start out trying to write what I'm feeling, but then it just ends up me trying too hard to make my feelings into a song.
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Sep 30 2010 11:13am
Quote (ZeroCc @ Sep 30 2010 12:57pm)
I've been having trouble writing songs.

I usually start out trying to write what I'm feeling, but then it just ends up me trying too hard to make my feelings into a song.


You can try and start with a catchy melody and then write around it using it as a hook or a chorus. You could also try just taking a riff or a chord progression or w/e and play it and then play what you feel or hear coming next.
Just a couple suggestions from my own experience since there's really no right or wrong way to write a song as long as it sounds good.
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Oct 1 2010 07:10am
if your trying hard to express feeling, when you want to express happy feeling you major chords and if you have sad feeling use some minor chords along with some major.

but the best thing is to take just a few simple chords you have and expand them into more chords for a chorus a begining and an end (im not sure on the technical words for them)

ive written MANY songs so if you want anymore advice or anymore questions just pm me. ill be glad to help.
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Oct 1 2010 11:56am
honestly, i do all of my writing with tabit.

it's so easy to just jot down your ideas, then combind them into full songs.

i've blown hours on that.
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Oct 4 2010 08:32pm
I use guitar pro to write down riffs and play them back to see if they sound good and if they all sound well together, try using a program like that or powertab which is free to write your ideas and sing to them
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Oct 5 2010 04:09pm
Writing music is like writing an essay.

You need the subject/ out line: which in this case might be a single riff that you want to use as the backbone of the song.

I write all my songs from guitar on, some prefer drums, vocals, whatever.

Once you get that backbone recorded with any recording device you wish.

Upload that shit into your ipod/mp3 player. Hit repeat, and listen, listen, listen.... and listen some more.

The more you get that imprint into your head, the easier it will be to start adding shit. Hear it first, play it after is the point i'm trying to make.

If you are born to write music this technique will enable the song to "speak to you" rather than you trying to cram shit that sounds good together.

Like water, let it flow.
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Oct 5 2010 10:56pm
Quote (Kamadev @ Oct 5 2010 02:09pm)
Writing music is like writing an essay.

You need the subject/ out line: which in this case might be a single riff that you want to use as the backbone of the song.

I write all my songs from guitar on, some prefer drums, vocals, whatever.

Once you get that backbone recorded with any recording device you wish.

Upload that shit into your ipod/mp3 player. Hit repeat, and listen, listen, listen.... and listen some more.

The more you get that imprint into your head, the easier it will be to start adding shit. Hear it first, play it after is the point i'm trying to make.

If you are born to write music this technique will enable the song to "speak to you" rather than you trying to cram shit that sounds good together.

Like water, let it flow.



Disregard that, I suck cocks.




Writing an essay sucks. Writing music doesn't.
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Oct 7 2010 02:26pm
It's not the MUSIC i struggle with. It's writing the lyrics and forming them into a song. I can write a catchy song that has no substance, or I can write a song that feels completely great but I can't seem to find how it goes.

I've written probably 120 songs in 1 week and 5 of them are really good. They came from times when I was emotionally distressed and simply just wrote.

I guess I need advice tapping into those emotions so I can write whenever I want.
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