when do you write a tune?

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when so you write your tunes?

  • drunk?

    Votes: 9 22.0%

  • high?

    Votes: 5 12.2%

  • sober?

    Votes: 19 46.3%

  • watching TV?

    Votes: 5 12.2%

  • listening to other music?

    Votes: 10 24.4%

  • after reading a thread here?

    Votes: 2 4.9%

  • kinda of an afterthought?

    Votes: 13 31.7%

  • periodically(orhoweveryouspellthat)thru a day or more?

    Votes: 23 56.1%
  • Total voters
    41
true-eurt said:
Sometimes, just a word or phrase, I read from far away places in the dead of night..... :D

Stars aloft, in a sky of black abyss
Look through the night, you'll get a glimpse
Sometimes falling, from their place
Burnt out fire, loss of grace
Lost forever in the ocean of space.

Beyond redemption
What does that mean
You fell below
You soared above
I'm told there's answers
In the arms of love
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that's FAR out TRUE :D did you write this? the last two lines are clever and wize...a good combination!
 
Last week I started getting ideas for lyrics for a song while in the shower. I got about one verse and the chorus and quickly wrote them down when I got dressed. I didn't even think about it until the next morning in the shower when I came up with the rest of it.
 
I put down sober, as most of my songs come early in the morning... right when I wake up.

I don't know if anyone else is like this, but... I wake up with a song in my head every single day. Sometimes it's a current country tune, sometimes it's an 80's song, and other times it's my own music coming straight outa nowhere.

Sounds neat an' all, but you can imagine my headache when waking up with Ricky Martin's 'Shake Your Bon Bon'... with the chorus playing like a broken record.

Shake yer bon bon shake yer bon bon Shake yer bon bon shake yer bon bon Shake yer bon bon shake yer bon bon Shake yer bon bon shake yer bon bon Shake yer bon bon shake yer bon bon Shake yer bon bon shake yer bon bon

Uhg.... couldn't get it outa my head till noon!
 
...Damm poll wouldn't let me click on all of 'em....Screw it then...Hey...! Gotta go, 'nuther idea to work on... :cool:

Eric
 
usually the instrumental part will take many sit down sessions...then a melody is constructed...usually takes a few different ones to get it.

then if i have something on my mind...i write it out.

lyrics only come first when i write something poppy.
 
I often get ideas as I'm just drifting off to sleep. Sometimes I wake up & jot them down. Sometimes they're too advanced for me to perform.
 
turtlishous said:
that's FAR out TRUE :D did you write this? the last two lines are clever and wize...a good combination!
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Thank you Turtlis...yes, I wrote it. Just then. I prefer on the spot songwriting to get my thoughts out quickly and honestly. Mostly they stay as they began, with very little tweaking, even if a bit on the strange side, because it is an expression of how I feel it at that moment. To change them too much, would take away the whole reason I wrote them in the first place and then feel forced and not me. Yah, those last two lines are my favorite too. :D

Now, I have to finish it, when the rest decides to come. That will most likely happen when I put some music to it.

As soon as Christmas gets past, I am going to crack down on all of my back projects I have committed myself to...including yours too!!!! Man, I have been such a naughty slacker...but I get so frustrated with the Cubase and just have to leave it for a while...or I want to sling it out the window. :eek: I haven't wanted to toss my guitar out of it here lately, so that is an improvement I guess. I practice and write and sing every single day...I just don't record all the time. ;)
 
true-eurt said:
Thank you Turtlis...yes, I wrote it. Just then. I prefer on the spot songwriting to get my thoughts out quickly and honestly. Mostly they stay as they began, with very little tweaking, even if a bit on the strange side, because it is an expression of how I feel it at that moment. To change them too much, would take away the whole reason I wrote them in the first place and then feel forced and not me. Yah, those last two lines are my favorite too. :D

Now, I have to finish it, when the rest decides to come. That will most likely happen when I put some music to it.

As soon as Christmas gets past, I am going to crack down on all of my back projects I have committed myself to...including yours too!!!! Man, I have been such a naughty slacker...but I get so frustrated with the Cubase and just have to leave it for a while...or I want to sling it out the window. :eek: I haven't wanted to toss my guitar out of it here lately, so that is an improvement I guess. I practice and write and sing every single day...I just don't record all the time. ;)
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damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what are you gonna do!
i think you should just fuck all the side projects ans focus on your own for a minute and see what happins!? who knows...you might find somthing worth keeeping and adding to a previous proggi?!?!?!? wouldn't that be worth the time?

gladto hear that your working on your guitar licks and singing everyday!!!!!
you have the MOST incredible voice!!! needs a great engineer to record it!!
don't worry about my thing, cus i think i was in another "world" when i gave that to you :o but i am working on the structure to that as i type:)

love you TRUE and keep it high and wize as you always do!
 
turtlishous said:
damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what are you gonna do!
i think you should just fuck all the side projects ans focus on your own for a minute and see what happins!? who knows...you might find somthing worth keeeping and adding to a previous proggi?!?!?!? wouldn't that be worth the time?

gladto hear that your working on your guitar licks and singing everyday!!!!!
you have the MOST incredible voice!!! needs a great engineer to record it!!
don't worry about my thing, cus i think i was in another "world" when i gave that to you :o but i am working on the structure to that as i type:)

love you TRUE and keep it high and wize as you always do!
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Turtlis...you have made my day a :) one, with your words of encouragement and kindness !!! Thank you my friend.

I want to do your song !!! It is cool stuff. I just love the Colab thing. After being without the freedom to share music for so long, it is a thrill to be able to share with it !!!!

I love you too and have a good Christmas. I will be around tomarrow, so if you are still going to be home too, we can terrorize the BBS as Christmas spirits Present. :D :D :D

I am off for a while...be back soon.
 
no....i got a ride home! weird story ...i posted in new rep....in short the guys name is Tuttle and so is mine and we're not related that i know of and have never know this guy before....just a chance meeting pretty much....but hes going to the same hood that i am!

small world:D

i'll be on the bbs though...... :eek: :D :rolleyes: :) :) :) :) :) :) :eek: :eek: :D ;)
 
turtlishous said:
no....i got a ride home! weird story ...i posted in new rep....in short the guys name is Tuttle and so is mine and we're not related that i know of and have never know this guy before....just a chance meeting pretty much....but hes going to the same hood that i am!

small world:D

i'll be on the bbs though...... :eek: :D :rolleyes: :) :) :) :) :) :) :eek: :eek: :D ;)
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That is a wonderful Christmas story Turtlis !!! Wow...coincidence? Perhaps, but I doubt it !! Coolist of cool...have fun!!!

Then the terror shall continue as planned? :D
 
Usually an event occurs that I narrate a lyric to, or some person I work with has some screwed up personal situation that I'm so glad I am not involved in~ Those things seem to be a recurring theme quite a bit. :rolleyes:
 
I find that if I write out lyrics that I haven't thought out a musical structure to beforehand, they sit around much longer than works that started off with music first. With no underlying musical structure, I don't think about the rythm, and end up writing lyrics with fairly generic/standard meter. it then becomes a lot more work to adapt those lyrics to fit a musical piece, verses starting with the music, and knowing I want to say something in a specific amount of time, with a certain number of lines, etc.

I guess once I have it on paper, it becomes much more difficult (for me) to change the words to say roughly what was said to begin with, in a (often times) much different way. As for when I write? Anywhere and everywhere... ideas don't "flow out of me like a raging river" as some in this thread would have you believe about them, but it does seem to strike at any and all random times.
 
Your/my heart is full of conflict
as a raging river flows
from within the place you/I know.

Tumbling down off the swirling edge
a waterfall at the end of a raging river
at the end of a raging song.

Your/my love feels like a raging river
flowing quick...flowing hard
spilling out all of your/my fury
spilling out all your/my love

:D
 
true-eurt said:
Your/my heart is full of conflict
as a raging river flows
from within the place you/I know.

Tumbling down off the swirling edge
a waterfall at the end of a raging river
at the end of a raging song.

Your/my love feels like a raging river
flowing quick...flowing hard
spilling out all of your/my fury
spilling out all your/my love

:D
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Sounds good true - very passionate and sincere......
 
ido1957 said:
Sounds good true - very passionate and sincere......
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Thank very much Gerry...I ripped off "the raging river" from a quote in the previous poster's remarks. As soon as I read that line, it moved me. ;)
 
true-eurt said:
Tumbling down off the swirling edge
a waterfall at the end of a raging river
at the end of a raging song.
:D
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Nice indeed my palindromic friend. Tumbling, swirling, raging.....nice imagery. ;)
 
up-fiddler said:
Nice indeed my palindromic friend. Tumbling, swirling, raging.....nice imagery. ;)
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:D I have never been referred to as palindromic before.

Thank you fiddler. I like imagery. :)
 
Staying awake for three days produced a funny song.

I wrote one song in my sleep and remembered it when I woke up.

Usually I come up with a theme and riff along with a catchy phrase. Then I fill in the rest of the lyrics in standard pop music structures. I'm trying to get out of the habit, though...
 
I like writing songs after a long practice session or voice lesson, when I'm really into music in general, and my brain is more likely to emote with melody and words simultaneously.

I have also written some very moving songs while very sad, although I don't like playing them for that reason.
 
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