tell me where i am slipping up
 

i have a bit of a problem. When I write a song, I have the beat in my head for it. I then write the words of the song along the beat, and then the words often become second place to the beat. This is a big problem for me. If you look at one of the songs I have wrote (My punk Romance) in my head that sounds really good, with a good beat, but as always the beats overshadows it and lyrically it fails. This is not because I am a bad lyricist. Poems I have written in the past have been given great praise and one has even been published. So then-what is going wrong? I'm a good lyricist and the backing beats that I create are good and catchy. But when I put the 2 together something always ends up going wrong. Please help me.

You could try getting the beats down, with the rough lyrics and tunes and then completely re-working the lyrics and tune. The hardest part about writing lyrics is probably finding your starting point/theme and a hook to go with it. If you've already got these then reworking, reworking and reworking would be your best bet.

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the only thing is I haven't got any tools to get the beat down. usually when i rework the lyrics the beat gets messed up. I have tried to do what you have said, getting my rough lyrics down and then the beat, then reworking the lyrics over this. but then it just ends up in a jumbled mess and what was a good beat and bad lyrics ends up in good lyrics with a bad beat. i am pretty good at each thing individually, but when i join them together they seem to get messed up. this is really important to me to get this right as it is what i would like to follow as a career. anyway, thanks for the help. by the way-i come from birmingham in england. where abouts do you live?

Try this....get some lyrics in your head first, then do a beat for the lyrics...it's kind of like what you're doing, but backwards...

Hey, it might work.

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ok yeah thanks. I'll do what you guys say :bowdown:

Haha, you don't have to do all that, now get up off your knees, you're fine.