hay ppl im new but i have been trying to make my own song for some time now i have lots of poems that my friends say sound like a song but i don't feel a flow in it what inspiers you

i like to listen to instrumentals tracks by whatever artists and improvise lyrics

Hey Rio34,
Welcome To Chordbook..

Me, i have written a couple of songs..
and ill give you a few tips into writing one..

They say that you should think of a title before you write one..
i tried that way...it didnt work for me..
id say that probably think of the chorus first...because the chorus is the main part of the story..
also the chorus is usually same all round...but you many change it around if you wish..

The verses usually tell the story..you may have about 3 or 4 verses in your story..
depending on how long oyu want the story to be..
my point here is...
dont make the story too long and never ending...it makes the song sound too boring..

The bridge is the solution to the problem in your story..
or is the other side of your story..
the bridge also may have a different melody to it..

The normal way a song should go is:
Verse - Chorus - Verse - Chorus - Bridge - Chorus

but you may add a solo is there somwhere

All i can say...
hope it helps..
TMR3

woooo go tmr3!!!!

guitarfreak wrote:

woooo go tmr3!!!!

Lol..
Thanks

TMR3

wow tr3 you go girl.
the bridge should also bring the song to a conclusion.
the best songs come from life experiances so if you take something that happened in your life or someone elses life and write it down it usually works out the best.
  it doesnt have be somthing that happened really it can be somthing u want to happen.
but mostly you should just have fun doing it and nfver force it some of the greatest songs ever written took years even decades to write.

lyrics first then music

Well lyrics dont always come first. Although sometimes they do,but i find in my writing that alot of times the rythem or even a spiffy lead inspires,and sometimes a sound from around . But everybody is different i the way the compose so just start playing and u never know wat u will come up with......

i always write the music first and then get my singer to put lyrics to it afterwards.

however, doing both at the same time would be most effective in that you can make the 2 compliment each other when doing one or the other first means making one 'fit' the other.

I don't understand

guitarfreak wrote:

i always write the music first and then get my singer to put lyrics to it afterwards.

however, doing both at the same time would be most effective in that you can make the 2 compliment each other when doing one or the other first means making one 'fit' the other.

seems to me maybe it would be easier to not set either the music or lyrics in stone until the song is completed to your satisfaction....that way you can always fudge either music or lyrics or both so as to be complementary to each other.

bobo808 wrote:

guitarfreak wrote:

i always write the music first and then get my singer to put lyrics to it afterwards.

however, doing both at the same time would be most effective in that you can make the 2 compliment each other when doing one or the other first means making one 'fit' the other.

seems to me maybe it would be easier to not set either the music or lyrics in stone until the song is completed to your satisfaction....that way you can always fudge either music or lyrics or both so as to be complementary to each other.

yeah that tends to be what happens.

i like to get the music done with my drummer. bring it to band practise. the singer can go through with it and then alter accordingly.

how'd that audition go btw, you done it yet?

i just look at it like gnr (guns 'n roses)....slash made a funky soundin' riff, axl thought of words to go with that riff, and the rest comes with what you've already made. now i don't know if that'll always happen (like you have the major set-back of not being in a band), then you just look at what tmr3 wrote, and you have a song......

very impressive!  But at this point Im grateful if I could just strum a song, thank you very much....

I know it's a HORRIBLE idea but I just play random chords until I find some that sound good together(and I don't do lyrics I can't seem to find anyone creative that wants to write lyrics for anything other than rap)

car93 wrote:

I know it's a HORRIBLE idea but I just play random chords until I find some that sound good together

Thats not bad to do it accually helps u create Different chord progressions.

Often times when my friend and I jam, one of us will come up with a cool sounding rhythm. Then the other starts to play a lead with it.  once we have a nice tune going, we take it it apart and tweek it a bunch.  Once we have an intro, verse parts, the bridges, chorus parts, outro, etc.,  we write it all down, he takes it home and puts words to it and brings it back.  Then we tweek the lyrics until we have a song.  We always have at least a couple in the air and never seem to complete any of it.  But it's fun all the same. The lyrics are almost always comical.