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 Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:25 pm
About a month back my partner and I decided that we would enter a talent competition, mainly because we like being on stage. I said I wont want to play someone elses song, so we wrote one ourselves just for the competition. Its technically the first song I finished.
The competition was last night, and we were the final act. I buggered up a couple of times, but still at the end of the night we came home with the band categories first prize. A full day in a recording studio and 100 CD's of our songs. You cant really win a better prize than that in an amateur cometition. One major flaw though, we have half a band and only one song. So this question is directed to the composers in the forum. How do you clear your head enough to write as many songs as possible in a week?
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:51 pm
Grab your buddy. Do what the two of you like doing for an hour, then write for a few. When you have to split up, follow the same process individually. Don't let any ideas for lyrics or music escape you. Keep an instrument and a pad of paper on hand at all times.
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:22 pm
Cheers, I've been writing anything that has popped into my head since last night... Made for a really rough sleep. blaugh
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:06 am
Also, ify ou are half a band, compose for the sounds you are capable of producing. Work from minimalism and up from there. Certain simon and garfunkel songs that are complete with just a guitar and a voice. Listen to a Jack Johnson album for that matter.
Composing using the least amount of resources.
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The Committee Staff Member
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:30 am
Use a theme and variation. Start the song with one theme and then make that theme into any variety of notes. I could be wrong how that actually works, though. To compose music, that takes awhile. For an actual song, you should use four chord progressions in the bass line. They don't have to be chords, you can move them around for more flavor. When I compose music, I'm usually away from the keyboard. I make some music and let my ears determine if things sound right or wrong.
Make a boring melody that sounds nice and then apply rhythm. Or use blocked chords and make them into broken chords and use whatever note such as quarter notes, half notes, dotted notes as a way to determine its rhythm. Move them around. I suppose you could go ahead and improvise. That usually does the trick.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:05 pm
You could always pull a "KC and the sunshine band" and write three songs with basically the same melody and chord progression (try it...it's "shake your booty", "that's the way (uh huh)", and "do a little dance")
No, that doesn't really work that well, but the idea of taking one really good idea and modifying it for several songs is actually a good one.
By the way, congratulations
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Intellectual Elocutionist
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:22 pm
I thought they were the same song... : 0
And thank you for the congratulations.. :3 We've managed to come up with one other song, and we're half way through another.
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