Heeeeelp!!!

[lowqui]

hey, I'm in a bit of troube with my songwiring, it's not that I can't write songs it's just that I hate what I've written a few days later when I go back to it, it's not the music it's the lyrics, I try to write stuff that's personal to me and at the time it all sounds great but a small amount of time later I hate what I've written and therein lies the problem, any hints on good structures or melodies/subjects for songs would be greatly appreciated, cheers

[Benoit]

The first thing I do is find a subject, personal or not.

Then I write down any word that comes to mind when thinking of that subject.

I organise them to get small groups of riming words. Then try to write phrases with them.

It's kinda mathematical but it works for me.


Exemple :

Subject : How time goes by too quickly

Words : Hourglass, past, futur, present, time...

phrases : As I look in the hourglass, and reflect on my past. Seeing how fast I'm loosing track of time, I need to embrace the present and make it mine.


they kinda sucks at first but A little more work could turn these phrases into good lyrics.

Anyway, breaks over, got to go

[Benoit]

Lunch time!

the exemple above was actually an exercise we used to do in my french class back in high school. It's called a "chant lexical" or something like that.

Who would of taught that my french class would help me in music!

[6 string madness]

thats a pretty good lil example, think ill try n use it (the structure i mean, not the lyrics :P)