I have booked a week off work, and have decided to make music. More than that,I have decided that I’m going to play the guitar every day, and try to see if I could kick-start my songwriting. I wrote a couple of songs April 2011, but otherwise I’ve not been able to write anything for a couple of years now.
Well the songwriting is going really well so far – 3 songs in 3 days. My singing is bit crap as I’ve got a bad throat, but these are proper songs with middle-rights and everything.
I’m feeling quite positive about my music now. I nearly posted a rough movie of me singing one of the songs, but it really is a bit too rough for public consumption. And the singing is a bit wobbly in places.
It’s a confidence thing, I think: The more I write, the more confident I am in writing, so the easier it is to write… etc. Let’s see how long I can keep that feedback loop going.
What? Why Bother? 
Good work that man. You’ll have to post some kind of version up so we can hear them. How do you go about lyrics ? – I have no idea when it comes to lyrics, I always think they sound like a 5 year old wrote them. Generally, does music come first ? or words ? or either ? I’ve got a song start sheet ( several actually ) that list title ideas, theme ideas and lyrics line ideas, but they are all just little bits. I could throw you some over to see what you think if you’d be up for that ??
i tend to have the start of some chords, then play them over and over until i get a vague idea for a tune, then the tune and the words tend to come together, can take nearly an hour until i have anything to work with.
sometimes the words go down a dead end and i have to bin the words/tune and start again, song i did tuesday i pretty much 3 times.
at the moment i have bad throat – tonsils and all that – so my singing is not good enough to inflict on the poor internet. but i will be recording these hopefully by the weekend, i should have almost an album worth by then (fingers crossed).
I’d say if i get 8 songs done, 1 will be good, 4 will be not bad, and 3 a bit poor. but until i write them, i don’t know which is which.
See I do have a loop that plays over and over, but then I get stuck and usually can’t “hear” past that loop. I guess I need to do more work on learning some known chord progressions that work…..
Just lobbed you over a mail to your online place.
got it, ta