sandysue wrote:
Hi Michelle
I don't think it's necessarily wrong to start with the lyrics when writing a song per se. I'm sure that many famous songs started that way. I guess I'm just struggling with that myself. My nemesis seems to be finding the melody mostly. Even when I have a good chord progression, I struggle with coming up with a melody. That is probably just a matter of practice. Whenever I hear a great song, I also say to myself, why didn't I think of that. It always seems so simple when someone else does it.
Sandy, I'm sure you'd find you melody if you had a starting point. That's is if you found a progression that you like, which works for the song and lyrics you're happy with. I really think it's just a matter of listening to the music over and over and letting ideas form in your head, then playing with different sounds. Have you ever started singing to a song and found you're singing a different melody/harmony line? It's like that. I think your brain will find it because it's got the notes in your progression to guide it. Maybe just give it a try from time to time. I bet you'll surprise yourself.
sandysue wrote:
We're not done with our song writing yet. We're just tooling up for the task ahead.
You bet you're bottom dollar we're not. This train has just started. We just need a few more supplies for the journey. Neil's wisdom will help there. Yeh!
sandysue wrote:
I tabled my love song for the moment but I kept lyrics with the idea that I will develop it somewhere along the way.
It will be fun to see how it develops over time.
sandysue wrote:
... I don't have any special recording equipment yet, I just use an iPad, so I'm not even sure how that would work. I'm sure I can figure it out, cause I'm a pirate. We never let things like ignorance stand in our way, if we can help it, so we'll see. Talk soon
Sandy
Now that's the attitude I LOVE. Not having the skills and the info yet is just a little bump in the road. Or is that a surge on the sea?
If you're doing trial recordings, you can use GarageBand on your iPad to record and edit your audit too.
Have fun!
Shel