Have you ever written a song ?

[polm]

Have any of you ever written a song ? with lyrics + instrumentation (at least one) ?

Can you offer any advice to someone with some lyrical ideas and a little guitar experience ?

 

[hoihtah]

what i usually do is...
i sit or walk around... indulge myself in my feelings. usually helps with some beer in my hand.

and sing out lines.
once i have the melody set...
i go fill up the instruments.

usually works out better for me that way.

don't try to force yourself to write...
let the music come to you.

 

[Moonbeam]

Oh dog ever faithful Ha woooooooo

It's country.

 

[CrazyDe1]

Yeah...me and this chick claudette from city high wrote this song called 2 wrongs...check it out sometime

 

[SpongeBob]

I play bass, so usually i'll come up with a bass line that i like and i'll record it. Then i'll play it back a few times to see if any words naturally come to mind. Other times if i think of a line or two that's cool i'll write it down and once i have a whole bunch of these i'll try to put them together into a song.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

LOTS.

nik

 

[Harvey]

I've written several. The only one you may have heard was one I wrote with a good friend. It was the title song from the movie, Can I Do It 'Til I Need Glasses? I also sang lead, played piano and synth and mixed it.

It was Robin Williams first movie, and I think I had more singing and playing than Robin had on screen. It was a terrible movie -- all the dirty jokes based on acting out all the "dirty" jokes you told in junior highschool. :Q It's also the only song I ever got on the radio, and then, it was The Doctor Dimento Show.

* * *

CAN I DO IT 'TIL I NEED GLASSES?
Words and Music by Harvey Rubens and Bob Vernoff

Verse 1:

Mama said she was alarmed,
When she caught me in the barn.
Now, you know she didn't come up from behind.

She said (Mama's voice) "That ain't the way I taugh ya.
It's a good thing that I caught ya.
Don't you know, if you don't stop it, you'll go blind?

Chorus:

Can I do it 'til I need glasses?
Can I stroke my spoke, can I fiddle my twiddly-dee?
I want to do it 'til the girls start making passes,
'Til I need glasses, just let me be.

Bridge:

When I'm feeling low, (Chorus) Where do you go?
Oooh, X-rated show. (Chorus) Wouldn't you know:
Oooh, Down in the front row, here I go.
(Chorus) You'll be blind by the time you count to
(with heavy breathing) 1, 2, 3 .....

Chorus:

Can I do it...

Verse 2:

Papa told me man to man,
(Papa) "You'll grow hair upon your hands.
If you don't stop, you know you'll lose your mind."
Now, maybe there's something to it,
But it feels so good to do it that when they say,
(Chorus) "If you don't stop it, you'll go blind." I say,

Chorus:

Can I do it.....

 

[MikeO]

Have any of you ever written a song ? with lyrics + instrumentation (at least one) ?

More than I can count. With the basic vocals, lead & rhythm guitars, bass and drums. I usually arrange all the instruments although I only play lead guitar, and I write the lyrics. I'm currently writing material for a promo CD we're supposed to get out before the year ends. Although it doesn't look too good as our drummer just went into a school and moved to another city and our second guitarist doesn't seem too interested. But fvck it, I'll do it all by myself if I have to, afterall I write 99% of the material.

Can you offer any advice to someone with some lyrical ideas and a little guitar experience ?

As hoitah already said, don't force yourself to write. Take your time with the material, when you get a song done play it through thousand and one times. Then play it some more, and if you're still not bored with the song you know you got a good one

Another piece of advice I could give is learn, learn and learn. Never be satisfied with your skills. You can learn much of song writing by listening to music, and I mean *listening* to it, what happens in there. Listening to the song structure, what the different instruments actually play and how the song evolves.

 

[Josh]

Nope...freestyled tho