Topic: WRITERS BLOCK!!!!!
- Jul 10, 2007 03:07am by Adoless - Myspace.com/adoless
THIS SUCKS!!!
Ok, so I finish layin down all three verses to this new song I'm doin... Kinda hot (to me). Then I go to mix it down and I see empty spaces between the verses.... *DING DING... No hook! So I sit back and listen to the whole song, hookless, and I cant come up with SHIT! I swear, I laid down about 4 hooks and all of them sucked a$$.
HELP!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9gaypj
- Jul 10, 2007 03:34am by Adoless - Myspace.com/adoless
I need advice as to what approach I should take. Be it singing, smooth, yelling, etc... Song references would be a plus...
- Jul 10, 2007 04:23am by Deta!L - I just said that so you would stop bothering me.
I got a hook for you
track is dope except that Tech N9ne ending...lost me on that
- Jul 10, 2007 04:26am by Adoless - Myspace.com/adoless
I know... I gotta take that off.. lol. It was some experimental type... whatever.. Do you have the ability to record it and up it to me?
- Jul 10, 2007 06:26am by maclethal
The key to choruses is not what you say, or how you say it.
It's the RHYTHM of it.
Play a repetative drum pattern with your fists on the table, and make sure it melts into the rhythm of the song. Then think of a rap that follows the catchy, bouncy part of that rhythm, and say it. Then decide if you should rap it, or sing it.
It's all about the counter-flow in a chorus.
This is why I'm hot
This is why I'm hot
This is why
This is why
This is why I'm hot
Ay babay....... ay bababy..... ay babay...
Ay babay....... ay bababy..... ay babay...
Those are shitty in the substance department, but work, because they follow the foundation of writing choruses.
Also, stop thinking so much. You are writing this song with your critical mind, but songs are written with your creative mind.
Writer's block exists only if you let it.
- Jul 10, 2007 06:58am by Whatsgood
I thoguht this thread was about the writer of writers...
J.R!!
- Jul 10, 2007 03:08pm by Distorted_Mastermind - I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Adam Savage Location: Olathe, KS
[quote:f929666cec="maclethal"]The key to choruses is not what you say, or how you say it.
It's the RHYTHM of it.
Play a repetative drum pattern with your fists on the table, and make sure it melts into the rhythm of the song. Then think of a rap that follows the catchy, bouncy part of that rhythm, and say it. Then decide if you should rap it, or sing it.
It's all about the counter-flow in a chorus.
This is why I'm hot
This is why I'm hot
This is why
This is why
This is why I'm hot
Ay babay....... ay bababy..... ay babay...
Ay babay....... ay bababy..... ay babay...
Those are shitty in the substance department, but work, because they follow the foundation of writing choruses.
Also, stop thinking so much. You are writing this song with your critical mind, but songs are written with your creative mind.
Writer's block exists only if you let it.[/quote:f929666cec]
I'm with you there. People love catchy choruses....whenever someone tells me they like a song of mine, they usually identify it by the chorus.
Another huge bonus of a catchy hook is it should allow time to catch your breath.
- Jul 10, 2007 03:39pm by phism
i usually prefer songs not to have a chorus.
unless it's an Oi! song.
- Jul 10, 2007 07:09pm by BenSmoif
I almost always start with a cadence to a vocal before putting words and syllables into it. I think the rhythm of a line is the most important part of building a lyric, and making a song people feel.
I have a little $10 voice recorder from Radio Shack that I keep in my bag and it's filled with song ideas, lyrics, but mostly me mouthing cadences "nehhhh neh-neh, NAAA na nehh nehh". If I die in a car accident I hope that shit doesn't survive the wreck...
Unless I come up with some sure fire phrase I always write around a cadence, otherwise I just play with the natural bounce of a phrasing and build around how the words play.
Mac is right, words come once you have a good feel for what you'd like to say and a good rolling cadence.
- Jul 10, 2007 07:46pm by Distorted_Mastermind - I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Adam Savage Location: Olathe, KS
Something else coming up with a good chorus first can help define a topic which often makes it easier to write verses and to actually have a subject rather than just random rhymes.
- Jul 11, 2007 06:58am by swayzorbladez - www.myspace.com/swayzorspitsbladez
i believe you should always have a topic.. then your just babbling(sp?) or saying your the best or etc...
- Jul 11, 2007 07:34am by phism
you could get a DJ and put some cuts in there.
