Deep Emotion

yea,maybe i shud try more harder..

Originally Posted by: EPISODERI find it easy to write songs whenever I'm feeling very s :D trong emotions.

Most of the time (sadly) the crappier I feel, the better of a song I write. Lyrics seem to come to me whenever I feel good, but melodies and beats just flow out of me when I'm down.

I write metal-core most of the time, but recently something came up with a girl I really care for, and I wrote the best song I've ever written, in 10 min. It was sort of like a metal ballad.


I really would like to know under what conditions you guys (and gals) write better songs.

I find that I come up decent melodies and lyrics hen i first wake in the morning with a clear head, this works well with top 40.

WHat i do is i just sit down with my guitar and i think.......for a very long time until i come up with something that makes sense then i put pencil to paper lay down the chord chart and what strings to press on what frets and the verses,interludes,riffs and stuff like that after i'm done with that i write down the words to the song and then work the other parts into my song so they sound good

It's kind of amazing where songs come from sometimes.

On some occasions it's just been me sitting at a computer and forcing something to happen.
On other occasions, I'll be out riding my bike and a song will just come to me that gives me that 'homesick' feeling.
Other times, I'll be at a party, listening to some DJ music and coming up with a whole bunch of riffs and changes that I could have added to the song.

I'm not trying to push this song or anything cause it's probably about 10 years old by now but this is a good example of a song that came out of nowhere:
I was imagining what it might be like to be a father, singing a lullaby to my daughter (neither of which I was at the time), and the whole thing wrote itself in about 10 minutes.

http://s93744050.onlinehome.us/MP3s320/GoodnightMyLoveFemale_Schmange.mp3

Totally opposite to my usual style of hard rock. All the harmonies were done by myself using 16 tracks, and the girl who sang on it was 3000 miles away recording it in a closet at home.

Weird thing is, out of all the songs I've got posted on iTunes, this and the instrumental of it are my top sellers.

I agree with earthone that having a story to tell with some emotion in it is important for me as well as a songwriter.

I write all the time to keep my songwriting muscles flexed, but the ideas that come to me that grow into my better work, seem to come at me from all angles of life, and there seems to be no way of telling when that will happen.

For me, the skill is in honing your songwriting, so that you can effectively craft a good idea when you do get one.

Dielle

If you write a song or riff that sounds good after hearing it 100 times and that others tell you are good then you know you have something. I always look for that magic riff that the universe hides. Isn't it funny how the best riffs seem to write themselves, like just jump out of the guitar or your hands. Whenever I try to apply too much theory or scale patterns I feel dissapointed.

Most of the time, when I write, the guitar part comes from an idea I got by just jamming out and playing around in the past. Then when lyrics start flowing out of me, which usually only happens when something dramatic or emotional happens, if I have a story of an adventure I went on or something. I fit them to riffs I've figured out on accident. Then once I make a melody for lyrics that fit with the main guitar riff, I follow lyrics, and figure out the chords to fit them for the rest of the song..... if that makes any sence.

When I was a kid, every time I thought that I was in love I would write beautiful music. Things would go sour and then I would write really hateful music. It bothered me so I started looking for inspiration elsewhere. I primarily found this simply by listening to a lot of world music, and my lyrics became quite philosophical and generally revolved around historical instances.

I decided that anything that I do that does not benefit me or mankind in some way is time wasted. Even if I am working on heavy metal compositions, I just really want to make people think, and do it without being political or throwing things in their faces.

I think art and political/religious/racial beliefs should be put in two separate rooms.

http://www.guitarticles.net

Originally Posted by: capitalalchemyWhen I was a kid, every time I thought that I was in love I would write beautiful music. Things would go sour and then I would write really hateful music. It bothered me so I started looking for inspiration elsewhere. I primarily found this simply by listening to a lot of world music, and my lyrics became quite philosophical and generally revolved around historical instances.

I decided that anything that I do that does not benefit me or mankind in some way is time wasted. Even if I am working on heavy metal compositions, I just really want to make people think, and do it without being political or throwing things in their faces.

I think art and political/religious/racial beliefs should be put in two separate rooms.

http://www.guitarticles.net

i couldn't a agree with you more, im working on a concept album alot like that, political in my mind but i want to use story's from other places and other ppl to make ppl think about it and come to the same conclusion as me. what do you think?