the studio as a songwriting tool?

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Okay, I've been having a lot of trouble writing songs lately, so I've just been messing around with my recording stuff...you know, laying down a random riff and just tearing it apart, tons of effects, etc., etc...now, some of these are starting to sound kind of half-decent. Once I've got something down, I'll just start recording my voice over it with various melodies and words until I get something that I like. Eventually, I piece together all of my good takes and form a "song".

So, my question is has anyone attempted writing songs this way? For some reason, I have so much trouble just sitting down and writing...I have to be doing something with recording or audio tweaking or something like that.

If you have any songs that you wrote this way, I'd love to hear them!!

thanks :D
 
Soitantly!

Well heck YAH! It is the ONLY way I want to create songs now!

The first time I did it was the song "Things to Come" at www.cdbaby.com/wendylambert (You can hear it for free. Its the last song on my CD.)

Now is 40 half-songs in the making (over the last 3 years). I have too much fun creating this way so I struggle to buckle down and actually have a complete melody with chorus. LOL

Definately more fun though. :D Enjoy!

-w
 
If I'm writing songs, I normally have the basic structure already prepared before I start recording - although once I do start recording I may find that the song changes.

If I'm "composing" music (I've done some very low budget independant film sound track work) then I do compose with the gear fired up and let the music take me in a given direction (at least within the frame work of what the film requires)
 
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