Track Rat
Just Your Average Sized Member
Do you have it posted anywhere (NoWhere in particular
) Oh Gassman? I'd like to hear it.
) Oh Gassman? I'd like to hear it.
badgas
New member
I'll put it in the Clinic, Track.
J
jjtcorsair
New member
The longer I take to write them the better they are. The longer I take to record them the better they sound. But damn if I don't hate them by the time I'm done.
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Henri Devill
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jjtcorsair said:
Dam if thet ain't the truth !
Don
TexRoadkill
Audio Bum
I'd say an hour a minute for recording a fully written song. For doing contract music writing I would say around an hour a minute if I'm lucky and get inspired..
crawdad
Dammit, Jim, Shut Up!
jjtcorsair said:
For me, thats a bad barometer of my song. Hopefully, different scenario for you. The really good ones keep inspiring me even after they are done. If my foot keeps tapping and I'm getting pulled in by the thing, thats when I know I have something. If I get 3/4 of the way done and its giving me a bad attitute, it goes in the garbage and I start another one.
This is not to be confused with the numbing factor of hearing the same thing 100 times in a row. Listen to the same thing too long and you can't hear it anymore. Best then to get a break and come back fresh.
As for this whole time factor, all that matters is if you get something good. Elton John used to allow only 30 minutes to write a tune. If it didn't happen, he would move on to something else.
For me, musical ideas are often pretty easy because its feeling and inspiration. Lyrics are another thing. Lyrics are sacred ground. I need to have something to say--a subject--a theme--a genuine idea that makes the whole process that follows worth the time. I've benn guilty as hell of falling short of those ideals, but the hunger to rise above mediocrity still burns in my soul. I like those songs where you know somebody was home when they were written.
I don't know what place there is for the soul of a poet in this musical landscape we are faced with today. Sometimes I think that the whole idea of music as disposable entertainment has sifted into the minds of lyricists and they whip off whatever fits the meter of the tune. End of story. For me, that doesn't hold water for very long. How many songs can you hear that are like that before you just get bored because you're hearing nothing, really? Great sounding records are neat to hear, but after the production values, what if they aren't saying anything relevant? Whats the difference between that and Brittany Spears? Not much.
I better get outta here. I'm getting frustrated again...
SLuiCe
New member
Interesting thread...
Usually I can get the basis of it lyrically down in about half to an hour. But damn, once I start seeing the words staring at me, all kinds of questions arise and I have to start answering them....writing my way through the problem.
The song is never finished...even long after I've first shown someone else what I'm doing. There always seems to be one more level to reach.
I have a major problem with today's music...the lyric content Crawdad was referring too. I wish we could all just lay off the bullshit jibberish, wasting potentially valuable airtime (communication time) on N' Synch, and Britney...
and Bryan Adams.
Ya, I think I'm starting to get worked up too...sorry.
Usually I can get the basis of it lyrically down in about half to an hour. But damn, once I start seeing the words staring at me, all kinds of questions arise and I have to start answering them....writing my way through the problem.
The song is never finished...even long after I've first shown someone else what I'm doing. There always seems to be one more level to reach.
I have a major problem with today's music...the lyric content Crawdad was referring too. I wish we could all just lay off the bullshit jibberish, wasting potentially valuable airtime (communication time) on N' Synch, and Britney...
and Bryan Adams.
Ya, I think I'm starting to get worked up too...sorry.
Aaron Cheney
Favorite Chord: C 6/9
I can usually finish a song per month, from writing to finished recording, working an hour a day in my spare time. But I rarely start and finish one song before starting another. Usually, I'll work on one until the inspiration leaves. Then I immediatley begin work on another song or idea that seems more fresh, and return to the first song only when I have fresh inspiration for it.
Over the course of a year I'll usualy finish 12 or so songs, and maybe 2 of them are what I'd consider great.
Production music is MUCH easier. I can whip out a radio bed or bumper in an hour or two.
I think it's the lyrics that are the difference, for me. It's so much more difficult to write compelling music around lyrics than it is to just vamp over a drum loop.
Aaron
http://www.voodoovibe.com
Over the course of a year I'll usualy finish 12 or so songs, and maybe 2 of them are what I'd consider great.
Production music is MUCH easier. I can whip out a radio bed or bumper in an hour or two.
I think it's the lyrics that are the difference, for me. It's so much more difficult to write compelling music around lyrics than it is to just vamp over a drum loop.
Aaron
http://www.voodoovibe.com