Songwriting (2 Viewers)

[travispickle]

snakybus, The Scientician The Ian travispickle @Moods_For_Mallards das nugs Flux Unicron Bunny kevin gallen egg_ dudley Shneaky 6Pack Pantone247 george mcfly Bad Intentions Anthony Wilbert corksongs MDR lympog coast to coast MilanPan!c Milker



its a good question.

My memory is so bad I have to write shit down as I go, though on one occasion in the past I had a tune written completely before I wrote it down.
I can use any kind of pen.

 

[washingcattle]

I definitely have that beat I've written tunes played them live a few times not played them for a while because we're working on new stuff and then forgotten how to play the song and had to ask other members of the band to teach me the song which I wrote in the first place. Which goes to show what effect your early twenties can have on the state of your brain.

 

[Goodbye]

I can't remember

 

[GO]

I cant remember shit.

 

[coast to coast]

That's very odd, ann. Have you ever tried finishing a whole song before you write it down?

Also:

Visitors found this thread etc..."site:thumped.com"

i'm really bad at songwriting in terms of having any stable method whatsoever, but i've definitely never done that. i'd be so scared of forgetting something that i generally wrote songs by recording them which is a bad habit which has probably contributed to my lack of finished songs over the years.

 

[GO]

I record my tunes onto a cassette soon as I get em
write the words on paper as they come
Cant remember shit..need to work on it

 

[Anthony]

Recently I wrote all the lyrics to The Christmas Band on a sheet of paper as a long poem, with no music. Then the next day tried strumming cords and singing until something worked. As far as I remember that is the only time I've worked like that.

 

[dudley]

I definitely have that beat I've written tunes played them live a few times not played them for a while because we're working on new stuff and then forgotten how to play the song and had to ask other members of the band to teach me the song which I wrote in the first place.

pete uploaded a video of the first corpo album launch a while ago. there's one song in the middle that neither me or joss have any recall of at all. shame, as it seems deadly!

 

[travispickle]

I record my tunes onto a cassette soon as I get em
write the words on paper as they come
Cant remember shit..need to work on it

Yup I do this too. It's fun listening back ages later and you find you can't remember some of the stuff you put down!!

Now if only I could kick this songwriting year off and write something......

 

[Deleted member 3435]

I record my tunes onto a cassette soon as I get em
write the words on paper as they come
Cant remember shit..need to work on it

I write a good bit and like to think that if I don't remember it then it probably wasn't any good. Sometimes it's a pain though if you're trying to recall something that seemed promising and it's completely lost. I used to do the writing and recording at the same time approach more when I used an 8 track and/or was making different kinds of music.

 

[GO]

Yup I do this too. It's fun listening back ages later and you find you can't remember some of the stuff you put down!!

Now if only I could kick this songwriting year off and write something......

finding ones you forgot about is one of the best things that can happen to you...it's like finding a €50 in a jacket you havent worn in ages...ahh man..good times(edit..except that €50 is worth money)

I write a good bit and like to think that if I don't remember it then it probably wasn't any good. Sometimes it's a pain though if you're trying to recall something that seemed promising and it's completely lost. I used to do the writing and recording at the same time approach more when I used an 8 track and/or was making different kinds of music.

yeah,I hear what yer saying about maybe some arent worth remembering,,but how can you know that for sure...all it takes is who knows but,yknow?

 

[ann post]

i feel like bertia herron for the way i dodged that question and then sat about till das nugs answered it.

however, to answer - two of the songs on the next thing were written in my head by memory over a very long long time. one of them was started around 2004ish as i found a demo of the melody with that date. I suppose i came from the point where i wrote just rhymes/prose for years and then started liking music and applied it, so i generally 'home territory' for me is a pen and paper and a guitar. the song is very much finished to me in my head when i reach the full stop on the last line.

 

[Milker]

I've got meself locked into a non-completion cycle...my mobiles voice memo is my notebook. I run for a quiet corner or the jax(wife reckons I've bowel issues) when i've the tune, chords and feel of a song gaining traction in my head. I have around 150 snippets of ideas, verses, gibberish, melodies on the phone. I've completed only a handful. Would kill to have a week to record....feckin pro-tools hasn't been opened in six months. Piss poor time manager me!


and I may have bowel issues.

 

[GO]

I've got meself locked into a non-completion cycle...my mobiles voice memo is my notebook. I run for a quiet corner or the jax(wife reckons I've bowel issues) when i've the tune, chords and feel of a song gaining traction in my head. I have around 150 snippets of ideas, verses, gibberish, melodies on the phone. I've completed only a handful. Would kill to have a week to record....feckin pro-tools hasn't been opened in six months. Piss poor time manager me!


and I may have bowel issues.

150?

ahh here.....you can throw a few my way if ya like

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I've just spent a frustrating 45 minutes trying to think of some lyrics. No success.

 

[GO]

Can I ask,were you writing about something Shaney ?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I was. I was trying to capture the essence of happiness in a few simple lines.

 

[GO]

I was. I was trying to capture the essence of happiness in a few simple lines.

Was "I just won a million quid" yer opener by any chance?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

No! Are you going to use that?

 

[GO]

No! Are you going to use that?

Nah..its a Mark E smith line