My goodness I just remembered that I have this blog :P Sorry for the delay, although I'm fairly certain that there's not really anyone reading this. Somehow I find that it helps organize my thoughts to type them out and present them before other people who don't know me very well :)
For those of you who don't know, I'm currently writing my first album (hopefully) and I'm really enjoying it except for one thing- song writing is probably the most overtaxing thing one can put one's brain through. To think of an idea that isn't stupid, and that other people might enjoy, and then to write it out so that it makes sense, and then write it in stanza/verse form, and then make sure that all the words rhyme in the right places, and then make a melody for the song, and make sure that there is background music for the song and then to put it all together.
One of the most, probably the most difficult part of this process is the rhyming. When I'm writing I find that I have something that (finally) really like, I come up short because the DANG words don't rhyme. But then I got to thinking... Who said that songs have to rhyme anyways? It's basically a poem that's put into music, and I don't want to change the words because that would give the song a completely different meaning. So I have a new rule for myself: Don't change words to rhyme. If you do, you'll end up changing what thousands of people may or may not get out of the song.
Anyways, that has been your tip/thought for the day :)
For those of you who don't know, I'm currently writing my first album (hopefully) and I'm really enjoying it except for one thing- song writing is probably the most overtaxing thing one can put one's brain through. To think of an idea that isn't stupid, and that other people might enjoy, and then to write it out so that it makes sense, and then write it in stanza/verse form, and then make sure that all the words rhyme in the right places, and then make a melody for the song, and make sure that there is background music for the song and then to put it all together.
One of the most, probably the most difficult part of this process is the rhyming. When I'm writing I find that I have something that (finally) really like, I come up short because the DANG words don't rhyme. But then I got to thinking... Who said that songs have to rhyme anyways? It's basically a poem that's put into music, and I don't want to change the words because that would give the song a completely different meaning. So I have a new rule for myself: Don't change words to rhyme. If you do, you'll end up changing what thousands of people may or may not get out of the song.
Anyways, that has been your tip/thought for the day :)
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