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Writing and acoustic song
i know how people say write a song about the things you know or feel the most. at the moment im lonley and feeling unloved. the tune iv composed for acoustic guitar its a sweet and sort of shortish song but i would love the sweetness to be contrasted with lyricall emotion. any help please? first verse lyric sentance? your stories? anything.
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What I think makes the best song, is really putting feelings into it. Writing it so that it provokes an emotion in people when they listen to it. Allowing people to relate to it, and know exactly what you mean. I also think you need something catchy, in it. Like, it's hard to explain...
Alright, I have an example of the feelings portion of my answer, have you ever heard the song "Six Feet Under The Stars" by All Time Low? If not, listen to it. The lyrics are just really good (in my opinion) not only for your question, but everybody whose trying to write songs and I think everyone has those feelings of not being good enough for somebody and wanting to impress somebody. The song just makes you remember a time you wanted so badly to impress somebody, and it provokes an emotion. See what I mean?
And what I said about the putting it in a catchy way, have you ever heard the song "If You Wanted A Song Written About You, All You Had To Do Was Ask" by Mayday Parade? Probably not, but the song has a PERFECT example of what I'm trying to say. During the song, there's a part that says:
"And you dropped the note, and we changed key.
You changed yourself and I changed me,
I really didn't see us singing through this.
Then you screamed the bridge and I cried the verse
and our chorus came out unrehearsed.
And you smiled the whole way through it,
I guess maybe that's what's worse."
The way they put that was just so catchy and I loved it, because they didn't just make the lyrics say something like: 'you gave up on me, I gave up on you, I didn't think we'd make it through this, but you were wrong." blah blah blah.
So bottom line, good songs (to me at least):
1. Provoke an emotion.
2. Put it in an interesting way.
Hope this Helps!
-Laura (17-f)
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Modest mouse tends to have nice songs that have kind of sad lyrics and so does built to spill. you could check them out for inspiration. What I do when Im writing is ask myself what the notes sound like they are saying. Even if I have not totally experienced it, if the notes are saying those words then those are the words I go with. You will feel it. I have a song that I wrote that was really pretty like a modest mouse style just very simple. only 7 notes all major sounding notes. And the lyrics were something like this: Well it's time to say good bye well I hope to see you again, but it's up to you, but it's up to you. You know it's hard not to lie, I make up truths to hide my mind, I think I fell for you, I think I fell for you. I said I wasn't gonna cry, when you left me behind-
you know I can't remember the lyrics that came next...but after that i repeated the first one. And it was basically about this guy that i liked that i knew liked me back but he had a girl friend that he really loved and it was one of those if i had met you first we'd probably be together sort of things...i was really sad. But the music it's self is kind of sweet and if you were in an optomistc mood you would probably not think of those lyrics. If you need to use some of it, that's cool. My initals are KNP just in case. Peace.
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