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Songwriting techniques and ideas
I thought @AfxTwn had a great idea on another thread to dedicate a thread to this topic. I'll start it off, since this is something that I struggle with. My typical approach is to lay down a drum track, then bass, chords, and then a lead line. Pretty standard approach, I imagine, and I'd love to hear some alternatives. I struggle determining how to come up with chorus and bridge parts as well, so any feedback on that would be appreciated. Modulating time signatures, keys, and tempos is also something that I'd like to incorporate in my writing as well.
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This article from John and the "Music App Blog" kinda got me working on completing some stuff this week:
http://www.musicappblog.com/getting-music-done/
+1
It's the old 'stuck in an 8 bar loop' scenario we all find ourselves in. Our initial ideas are rarely longer than this, and we end up with a lovely large song folder containing, well, 8 bar loop songs.
A simple thing I like to do in my DAW, is map out say, a three and a half minute song. This will be about 90 bars long, split into 8 bar lengths with each named 'Intro', 'Verse' 'Chorus' etc. I stick my idea into one of these sections, then copy it around the song, just to fill it out. Then I can easily add, take away tracks just to get an overall feel.
I can then decide to concentrate on adding an idea into the intro, chorus or maybe add a vocal idea to verse 3. The important thing here is, the song is laid out from start to finish from the off.. keeping things fresh and open. You can then save your most useful song layouts as templates.
I think it's a very good idea.
Thanks for the link.
Thanks @NoiseHorse. It certainly resonated with me! "Write, record, release, repeat…. and keep learning from the cycle." A worthy mantra for me.
Yes, that was a very nice article and I have since joined his newsletter...very good ios music info there.
For what it's worth, I also tend to write in sections, verse, chorus, bridge etc... I think I was so influenced in my youth by the Beatles method, where one of them had a verse and the other would supply the chorus etc.., that I adapted my own writing to that style and have co-written with others that way as well...
Ya, I definitely recommend the Music App Blog site. John gives great real world reviews on stuff and some takes on stuff you might not find on the other IOS sites.