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The Man Behind The Curtain!


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First Rule of Song Writing Club...

There are no rules! Whatever gets you to where you want to be! Sometimes I approach writing a song in a very methodical way. Sometimes I'm just bumping around in the dark hoping for best. Sometimes it's lyrics first music second and adjust the arrangement and rhythms. Sometimes it's create the music first, do some arranging and then write some lyrics based on a nonsense cadence. Sometimes it's just a musical sketch that firms up after I have some lyrics. There isn't any rhyme or reason to it for me. Should there be? I don't know. I think I've had some descent results with different methods. I know I'm going to like it when the song sort of takes over and tells me what it needs.

That's all a bunch of touchy feely nonsense!

I know I know. Songs taking over and writing themselves. As if! I feel like I should explain that point a little better. When I start recording a song it's like a raw block of wood. There's a shape in there that needs to come out. As I lay things down and start to hear where the song is going it's like just following the path it takes you too. As an example a recent song I'm working on went all Spanish on me. I didn't intend it to go that way. It was a Bob Ross happy little accident! "A little Spanish sounding guitar solo lives right here". I was as surprised as some of the reviewers on that one! Awesome that something like that could come out of my head and onto the DAW. This one was methodically plotted and planned out in the beginning. A lyrics first music to fit after process. Then it took over and finished writing itself!

https://soundcloud.com/6-pack-guru/little-conquerors

Music First!

Music first for me isn't too bad of an approach. I was a front man in a band for about 5 years and new songs were presented that way to me. Here's a general idea for how the vocals will sound and here's the music bed. Sing it! I like surprising myself that way sometimes. Creating a music bed with no end in mind. It's like a blank canvas for me to paint on I suppose. It's a blast when it all works. Laying down a nice complex drum with good transitions and then jamming overtop of it just seeing where the beats take me. I can get lost in that world for a good part of the day when that happens. Then once the instrumental is done. Laying vocals on it part by part is fun and another great process. Here's the instrumental and the song it became!

https://soundcloud.com/6-pack-guru/impulse-instrumental

https://soundcloud.com/6-pack-guru/impulse

This is my 2nd Blog Post. Not sure if this is what I should be blogging about. This blog is attached to a songwriting site so I thought I'd head in this direction. Let folks see the man behind the curtain. Of course it might be a mental midget behind my curtain but hey! He's my very own mysterious midget wizard of musical prowess! Mwa hahahaha

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