Strafe (post: 1419383) wrote:
And then one time I was feeling really weird and wrote in the perspective of a heroin addict staring at the moon about to commit suicide... The guitar riff was pretty good though. But it shows that when you don't have much of an inspiration, you start getting strange.
Strafe (post: 1419413) wrote:Oh wait. No I'm not the one asking the question. Let me try to explain what I mean.
It's great that I know what my own meaning is, but what of all these other people who might never find it? That's what the songs are all about. It's not wondering for myself, or my own doubts, since I know what to do with them. But for other people who have no where to go, you know? I write those songs for the secular audience, in the perspective of the audience. People constantly in love, people working hard to succeed, they are people all around me. What happens when they wake up and smell the coffee. Or on their deathbed, they see that it didn't ever matter in the first place. Or if they never think about what it means at all. Sort of my way of reinforcing Ecclesiastes in a relevant context for this day and age. At least remind people that they need to be looking for something. I write the worship songs as my own answer to that question, but the question is not my own. I want the song to stir some sort of discontent in someone and perhaps make them think about what they're doing with their life.
Now does that happen? I don't know. Maybe I'm better off writing only worship songs then outreaching to a secular audience. But I don't think non Christians will take worship songs any deeper than nice sounding words. What do they do with songs about a God they don't believe in? I write these questions since they might understand it better. To them, it's real life, while to me, the Worship songs are real life. Of course, the worship songs aren't written for me, but to God alone. My pastor has been getting on how I word things, so I'm getting on catching myself.
yukoxholic (post: 1421857) wrote:Firstly, Sapphy, you don't have to know music to write a song! If you have words you're already halfway there! As to the actual "musical" part that can also be a simple step. If you do not currently have a melody to put your words too playing around like Strafe had mentioned with chord progressions can be a lot of fun and educational!
Lots of popular songs have the same chord scheme consisting of: G,C, D, F, and E with minor/major variations of the note. Some examples: Lifehouse - G, C, E minor, D, Michelle Branch – G minor, C major, YUI – G, E minor, C, etc. All of which have songs that contain those 5 chord schemes! Learning those simple chords will get you started on a great path and then learning variations of those chords (minors/majors) will really set you off!
The song Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova is a great example song that only uses 3 chords: C, F, and A minor. So, as you can see it doesn't take much to put music to your song just a little music knowledge and viola!
I always use this site for guitar chord reference when I am writing a song that will be played on the guitar as they have free printable chord charts. You can also reference music books over at LTP.com which offers hundreds upon hundreds of music books that you can purchase for every instrument and level! Also, Youtube offers a lot of talented people who can help you out in your musical learning with free tutorials!
Once you have these tools songwriting will be a breeze for you! Just remember to keep doing your best!
Strafe (post: 1422006) wrote:Nah man. I wasn't ignoring you, I was just talking to Nami. But yeah. Do your best!
Here's your Song, That Dude:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_r_RYoSvew
Htom Sirveaux (post: 1422052) wrote:As I said in the Guitarists' thread, I write some faith-oriented songs of my own. I might post up some lyrics here sometime, but I'm hesitant to put anything on YouTube because I don't want my music stolen.
Strafe (post: 1425112) wrote:http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/363250
So I rerecorded Clouds to sort of feel around with the program... and wow. Live 8 is incredible. SO powerful... and ate up all of my dinky netbook's RAM so it almost crashed with only 3 tracks... But I had a lot of fun with it. I'll be strategic with signal processing in future projects so I don't kill the poor thing...
Got rid of that Sax improv and replaced it with piano improv... lol. It's probably not common practice to improv in recordings these days, but its too much to actually figure something other than the melody.
Next up is something with Electric guitars and fake drums. I might do a real cover of Uso, or maybe one of my songs. I dunno.
Strafe (post: 1425144) wrote:Wow. Jeez. Hrm... That's like the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my music. I'm almost crying since I just woke up and I'm all moody. So thank you so much to you and your professor!
I do take piano lessons, and about the sax, it's a really funny story... all my friends said the exact same thing: Get rid of it. I almost died of laughter because it seemed like they got together and were like... "Tell Matt to get rid of the sax. It kills the song." XD. So, I just had to redeem myself. I haven't got them to listen to it yet, but I hope they like it.
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