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SuperCoolSlides
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SuperCoolSlides
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01/08/2004 12:25 pm
yeah writing a chorus and one verse first sounds like a good idea !

another thing which took me a while to figure out:

dont write too complicated lines ...
sometimes i wanna write verses that say everything perfectly ... only to find out that the lines get way to long to sing them...so when recording them i find myself truncating them all the time...sometimes leaving only half the words in there :) when listening to the song after a while i hardly even notice, because even those shorter lines usually carry the meaning well...

now im not saying "write generic ish" im just saying that sometimes simpler really is better...and especially when youre doing "real" singing as opposed to rap-style...i guess the melodies are sometimes more important than saying everything in just one line !

after i started writing seriously it happened a lot that i listened to old records which had really awesome lyrics to find out that they usually said a lot less than i remembered ! leave the listener something to add to your words...they prolly wanna fantasize a lil...i figure this is also true for writing music in general...sometimes its better to leave out a melody, since the listener will add it himself in his head while listening to the tune ... did that make sense ... i hope so

ike