How does he do it?

Ranting Thespian · Unread post by **Ranting Thespian** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:30 pm

Me, I have always been able to write. I have, though, improved over the years, My first stuff doesn't flow as well as my new. When I write, I just have to find the first few lines and BOOM, it just breaks down the damn and the creativity just pours out. It only comes so often, though. When I try to force it, it sucks, but when I hit it, I hit it.

Sciaracastro · Unread post by **Sciaracastro** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:37 pm

Ranting Thespian wrote:Me, I have always been able to write. I have, though, improved over the years, My first stuff doesn't flow as well as my new. When I write, I just have to find the first few lines and BOOM, it just breaks down the damn and the creativity just pours out. It only comes so often, though. When I try to force it, it sucks, but when I hit it, I hit it.

Yeah, the same for me...i dont have to force it, it must come by itself...

Tranman66 · Unread post by **Tranman66** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:27 pm

Dutch17 wrote:it always seems that the best lyrics come to me while im trying to get to sleep. i dont write them down so i can never remember them the next day. when i sit down and think "ok im gonna write a song now" i start writing and i may be totally flowing, but then i look back over it and think "wow, what a load of totally trite shit" so dont try to force it

hahahaha, so true

Sciaracastro · Unread post by **Sciaracastro** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:42 pm

Tranman66 wrote:
Dutch17 wrote:it always seems that the best lyrics come to me while im trying to get to sleep. i dont write them down so i can never remember them the next day. when i sit down and think "ok im gonna write a song now" i start writing and i may be totally flowing, but then i look back over it and think "wow, what a load of totally trite shit" so dont try to force it
hahahaha, so true

yeah!!!
remember 1 thing: if something good comes while u r sleeping, woke up immediately and write it down !!!

Tranman66 · Unread post by **Tranman66** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:28 am

I get ideas in my dreams, but then i cant really remember whats happened in my dreams, i just know taht i have an idea what no idea what it is. Really weird.

Sciaracastro · Unread post by **Sciaracastro** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:41 am

Tranman66 wrote:I get ideas in my dreams, but then i cant really remember whats happened in my dreams, i just know taht i have an idea what no idea what it is. Really weird.

ahahahah! weird but it is the same for me too!!

RSabala · Unread post by **RSabala** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:09 pm

Forcing music only seems to bring out pop tunes like Cabrerra, boy bands, and pop queens. I think that if you try and force it, you will come up with the cheesiest BS that is so predicatable that it's garbage. Songs seem to come from living life......writing about something that you feel or have experienced in your life.

And let me return back to non-corny land. Uhhh.....boobs. :lol:

Tranman66 · Unread post by **Tranman66** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:33 pm

[quote="RSabala"]Forcing music only seems to bring out pop tunes like Cabrerra, boy bands, and pop queens. quote]

quote quote, key

filmdude100cms · Unread post by **filmdude100cms** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:45 pm

the way i typically write, well, theres 2 things... sometimes im just inspired to write lyrics and i do so, and it comes out nice...

other times, i dont know if you know anything about acting, but theres something called the emotional aproach to it. and you use sometihng called emotional memory, so if you character is suposed to be happy or sad, you think back to a time and event when you felt that, and let those emotions behind your experiances drive the scene your acting in.... what i do when i have some music,and dont know what lyrics to use, ill play the song, see how it makes me feel, then think back to a time when i felt that, and use that in the song and you can recall old emotions and feelings for your writing.

Dutch · Unread post by **Dutch** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:48 pm

most the time i just say fuck it and end up writing dirty lyrics, or spoofs

a couple friends of mine and i wrote an entire spoof of crazy train called lazy train that was pretty funny

GuitarGuy305 · Unread post by **GuitarGuy305** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:03 pm

Ranting Thespian wrote:Me, I have always been able to write. I have, though, improved over the years, My first stuff doesn't flow as well as my new. When I write, I just have to find the first few lines and BOOM, it just breaks down the damn and the creativity just pours out. It only comes so often, though. When I try to force it, it sucks, but when I hit it, I hit it.

I am the same way. I don't play any songs anymore that I wrote years and years ago, I just can't stand them. They were so...juvenile. My ability to use metaphors and the english language in general has vastly approved since I was like 12 or 13. My best songs have been written by picking up the guitar, noodling until I find something good, and then beginning to sing. The best lyrics just come right out as I play. If I don't write them down, that music will never have lyrics. I can not sit and just write lyrics to a guitar part. It all has to come at once. If not, then I write the lyrics first, with a melody line in my head, and then write the guitar to back that up.

Adam

Tranman66 · Unread post by **Tranman66** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:53 pm

yeah sometimes i just brainstorm by picking up the guitar and sing. make sure you record your brainstorming so you can go back and pick up parts you like

Phan226 · Unread post by **Phan226** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:10 pm

shit we just did emotional memory in my acting theory class

filmdude100cms · Unread post by **filmdude100cms** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:11 pm

Phan226 wrote:shit we just did emotional memory in my acting theory class

yup, now use that with your cool guitar riff ya cant put your finger on for lyrics.

antsmarching41 · Unread post by **antsmarching41** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:15 pm

smoke a bowl look at something small and turn it into something big...i was looking at acup of water and turned it into a whole sotry of this water i couldnt give up or id die and i had to make a choice if i gave the beggar the water to survive and its pretty sick but i got all that from glass o water and i have a 55 in english right now so yanyone can do it

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