RezZ's Songwriting Journal
 

I have been writing for a long time, and well in my opinion non literal songs are much better.

What i mean by this is when everyone posts there lyrics here, yes they make sense, and are understandable..but they lack thought and creativity from the writing and listening aspect. A good song does not outwright tell you what it is talking about, it lets you figure it our yourself hrough metaphores or anything else that would infer a real meaning.

Maybe its just me, but i feel thats much better than just saying exactly what you mean. No song is about one thing, its supposed to be what the listener makes it.

i agree totally! music should be made so that everytime to you listen to the lyrics, a new meaning could be used. Like yes, theres always a literal meaning. But the best albums are the ones where you have to sit there and think about everything it could mean and since everyone could have a different interpretation, the song becomes that much more versatile and artistic.

I agree music is much better when you can sit, listen, and figure out what point they are trying to get across

A song idea, need lyrics and little advice.
 

I have uploaded the sample I made that my band will try to turn into a song tomorrow since we bought some studio time.

Since I have no room for drum set here I made similar drum beat using keyboard so bear with it. It is a 50 sec sample of the main rhythm and solo sections. (Keep in mind I wont be doing much of the soloing the actual guitarist will)

Just tell me what you think and what I can improve on. The timing isnt perfect since its a ruff copy, but other than that its what I am showing them for an idea. I need some lyrics also, which I am having some trouble coming up with for this mood. So any ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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I definitely hear a lot of potential there, with a little tightening up I think it could be a really great song. As far as picking the right lyrics for the mood I don't know but what the song made me think of is swanky new clothes and a friday night out on the town. Maybe that helps.

Thanks for the reply. It will be tighter when its actually recorded and played by our actual guitarist.

Lol funny impression to get. I was somewhat trying to imitate a progressive acid trip in which your thinking about your self. Sounds ****ing stupid but hey, what the hell.

Ge Wiz thanks for all the help MusicBanter. Can always count on you...

feel your feet lead you to the sky
like dying is meant for you and i
i hope you stop to smell the roses
hope you slip and split like Moses
ihope you take my words
i hope you read them well
i hope you understand
you gotta die
welcome to hell


i never knew a place like this existed

Well I was there for you, buddy. :p:

Attempt at my first folk song.
 

[Fingerstyle 1 Intro]

G c D7 G
Johnny had a station, riddled with rocks.

G C Em
He just wants the tangible truth.

G C D7 G
Johnny had a station, occluded by night.

G C Em
He just wants the counterfeit wiped.


[Bridge 1]


He hit the city and the damage was done.

They bit his freedom, kept it for good.

Now Johnny sits there askin' why they never understood...


[Bridge 1]


G c D7 G
Johnny had a station, riddled with rocks.

G C Em
He just wants the tangible truth.

G C D7 G
Johnny had a station, occluded by night.

G C Em
He just wants the counterfeit wiped.

[Fingerstyle 2 Outro]




Just a simple relaxing folk song with a neat little chord progression and arpeggio intro/outro. The middle verse (and really the only verse) still needs a guitar/piano part. Will hopefully have the song recorded soon and posted with everything included.

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looks good! id love to hear it, though. do you have a box.net account or anything?

sweet dude. have you recorded it yet?

Yea man, I'm interested in actually hearing it. I play fingerstyle myself, but I do everything by ear and in open tunings so I can't really transpose your notes in my head.

Thanks for replies, and my computer just got rebooted so itll be a few more days before I can record using sonar. And I realized I messed up on 2 chords up there, they should be Bminor not D7!

I forgot you said you used Sonar. I use 7PE. What version you have again?

I use the same!

Going off what I had said on chat, did you ever figure out how to copy track envelopes?

I've followed all the help files, to no avail.

I have a song where I use a synth sound and load it in the drum synth on a pad, and I manipulate the pitch by enabling automation on the pitch wheel and editing the envelope on the track.
Takes a while, but I like the portamento it gives you. Thing is, I can't seem to copy the envelope and paste it anywhere else. I know I could export the track as it is, but I need to be able to change things in the midi editor.

Just copy the entire Track into wherever you are working and delete the music. It will leave you with an empty audio or midi track with the envelopes still there.

I need the automation envelopes copied further down the same track. Say I automate a 4 bar loop from a synth and get all my nodes where I want... then I copy the 4 bar synth loop and paste so that it's an 8 bar loop of two repeating 4's, well no matter what I do, the automation envelopes don't copy with it. I've tried copying just the audio track including envelopes, no dice. Tried copying the synth track but the option for including envelopes is grayed out.

Hrmm.