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General songwriting banter!

  • 04-03-2008 8:04pm
    #1
    Octavarium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭


    Hey, so glad I found this board, I LOVE writing songs. ALthough I have a problem in that they nearly always seem to follow the same structure;

    Verse1 (x2)
    Chorusx1
    Verse 2 (x1)
    Chorus (x2)
    Bridge
    Chorus (x2)

    It's a habit I'm stuck in, find it very hard to write songs with any kind of radical structure.

    My song "The Sand" is being played in the Sugar Club in Dublin, as it won Best Song at the Garageland Battle of the Bands in my heat!

    Anyways, I'd love it if anyone could give my tunes a listen on my Bebo and tell me what you think...?


    Here's a link!
    http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=5319135801

    Thanks! :D


Comments

  • #2
    Flynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭Flynn


    Hey man just checkin out your bebo now.. just started listening to the sand.. really like what i'm hearing so far...
    thumbs up!


  • #3
    Octavarium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭Octavarium


    Thank you sir!


  • #4
    nheil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭nheil


    its tough to write new structures... i had one song which was verse chorus verse chorus etc, so i scrapped the chorus and picked the verse chords different for a kind of bridge then played my chorus once at the end.

    essentially i stole the structure of fake plastic trees! without realising it.
    basically my point is new structures are tough.. :)


  • #5
    frobisher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭frobisher


    The classic structures exist for a very good reason. They work. Poetry has them as well, even more so. They can feel stale sometimes but I honestly think that if they aren't working it's because what we put into them isn't working.

    I reckon as songwriters we spend a long time in the trap of judging songs on what they are like to write, rather than what they are like to listen to. If someone hears 10 songs in a row that they like the melody, feel, rythym and lyrics of and you then point out that those 10 songs actually follow the exact same boring old standard structures, they're not going to care. It's not going to detract from their pleasure. Worth keeping in mind.

    At the same time I think that it's always great to do anything you can to keep yourself fresh. Expanding your ability on whatever instrument you write on is great for this. So is a ryhming dictionary. It's strokes for folks but reckon the classic structures are pretty great and I use them alot.


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