[Drop A Link To Your BEST and LATEST Songs...]

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Another old project that Im trying to revive. Had it going in the lyrics qritique forum here, 15 years ago or something.

 

[Drop A Link To Your BEST and LATEST Songs...]

Hey John

 

Im from Norway, and was somewhat active on this site many years ago, trying to learn a little about writing lyrics. Got lots of helpful pointers in here back then, but for maybe 10-15 years lyrics writing and music has been put aside. I recently picked up on it again, as I gained interest again trying to learn a little about making music in fruity loops.

Among other projects, I finally was able to make something out of one of my old posts here; Bloodsucker. Im still very much a novice both when it comes to writing lyrics and making music. Anyway; thought it might be fun to post my old Songstuff-projet here now that you present this opportunity (thank you for that).So here are two links: Come on, try it! Is something new Im working on, and Bloodsukcker as described abowe.

 

 

Cheers!

[Whats The Typical Setting For You When You Write Songs?]

HI!

99% of my attempted songs never make it beyound 4 lines,so rather than posting here I should probably start a topic on techniques that doesn`t work,to rule things out

However,With such a "scorecard"I guess-at one point or another- it was inevitable for me to start asking questions regarding my own abilty.:)Maybe My true talent layed elsvere.. but after concidering curling and other "sports"that doesn`t ecxlude people suffering from

a little stronger gravitational pull than most athletes,I decided to try to find patterns and similarityes for the handful of songs that actually made it all the way to what i concidered finished,beeing good or bad not meaning a thing..

And I actually found some similarities,most of them appearing a littlebit to often in the songs faling as well,and had to be concidered"Inconclusive" , like just playing my guitar while sort of daydreaming without anything concrete ideas in mind,feeling relaxed,red wine,not to much mess in my place, and such..

However,one thing caught my attention..With a few ecxeptions,my completed songs tended to start with me coming up with the verse first rather than chorus..I always thought the other way arround was most common..As mentioned I never really plan to write a song,its more of a coincidence when words and chords "fit"I dont know if that might be the reason,but as mentioned some songs starting with chorus was completed,I`m not quite sure why,but for some reason the "verse first"-songs moves smooth from verse to chorus and back to verse,while "chorus first"seem forced somehow..

Anyway;after I found out this,I improved my "success-rate" with about 0%....:)Thing is,Since I just play arround randomly with words and chords,I`m not able to make any real use of my "discoveries".somethimes what I come up with sounds like a verse,sometimes it sounds like a chorus.....

So,to put things short:HELP!If anone have thoughts regarding this I would love to hear them..

datsdniv

[Hooks]

Hi!

Been reading some topics here about hooks.And in a discussion from 2006 Lazz said

"Defining it is elusive - but, like a lot of things, we can all recognise it when we hear it.".

I searched the net for "one hit wonders" to see if I could find simularities in hooks that had proven to work well.As I began to realize that this was hard also I came across "99 luftballoons"by Nena.I`m not quite sure but I think the lyrics in this song was German,stil it became a hit worldwide...

Datsdniv