the process..

[sotirediam05]

whats the process you take when u write a song..I was watching Rock Star tonight and Mig and Deanna wrote their own songs.....seemed a little hard for them....i was wondering if song writing is hard for any of you..or do any of you write songs in like 10 minutes type deal?

[Jolly McJollyson]

whats the process you take when u write a song..I was watching Rock Star tonight and Mig and Deanna wrote their own songs.....seemed a little hard for them....i was wondering if song writing is hard for any of you..or do any of you write songs in like 10 minutes type deal?
Usually 15 minutes, actually.

[x0o_BurnOut_o0x]

But unfortunatley most of us dont have Jolly's inhuman super powers to crap out a song every 15 minutes about any topic in the world. For me, personally, its really hard, and produces horrible results.

[sotirediam05]

ya, the people on rock star had 12 hours...but their songs came out pretty good..I guess it all depends on if ur inspired or not....but ya..I tried to write a song a couple of times..but never could finish one on my own.

But unfortunatley most of us dont have Jolly's inhuman super powers to crap out a song every 15 minutes about any topic in the world. For me, personally, its really hard, and produces horrible results.

[FireAndIce24]

15 minutes?!?!? u only took 15 minutes to write that metal master peice( http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14477 ) ? ;) :D

[Hamberg]

it used to take me months but the more I write the faster im getting. I wrote my last three songs in about a week for each song. But only two turned out really good the other one is just kind of cool. But I've been experimenting with ideas for about 8 hours a day for the past 1-2 years.

[sotirediam05]

wowwwwww....well I was wondering..on the show Ty and Deanna wrote together..you guys find it easier to write alone or with another person? I haven't tried to really collaborate with anyone in song writing...


it used to take me months but the more I write the faster im getting. I wrote my last three songs in about a week for each song. But only two turned out really good the other one is just kind of cool. But I've been experimenting with ideas for about 8 hours a day for the past 1-2 years.

[Hamberg]

it would probabily be easier to write with another person, but I'd have to imagine that it would be a systematic approach that would be the most effective.

I would like to write a song, and the other song writter in my band to write a song, and then trade the songs. Then edit each others songs. That would never happen though because he is more interested in the art of making music, while im more interested in the art of making music commercial.

Even more so I would like to make my band learn music theory and then record our jam sessions and build the songs off of that.

But I dont want to hurt their ego by forcing it on them, and more importantly they just aren't interested in learning theory...

[niccar113]

Well, are you writing lyrics or guitar parts? I'm going to talk about writing lyrics, just in case that's what you are doing. What I usually do is start writing lines that seem to make no sense, that rhyme, something nice sounding. After about three or four lines, I realize that what I am writing about I can actually relate to about something that has happened to me or my friends, or something I care about, something in my life. And isn't that what songs are generally supposed to be about? I write usually ska, so a lot of the songs end up about crazy **** that's happened at parties I've gone to or how funny cool people are when they're acting cool and how funny and brainless it is to see them make fun of uncool people (haha) or other random crap like that, etc. But try that out. If you're writing guitar stuff, forget everything I've just said.