SeanL

Eyyy, so I finally filled out my profile info., and about me! Jest a heads up.

Hey guys... so I go through these phases, right? Every few weeks I switch from songwriting, to learning classical stuff, to learning cover songs, to focusing on lyrics, etc., etc. After just finishing (more or less) a song recently, I've been listening to alot of classical stuff again. I kinda want to try my hand at composing a simple instrumental song on my guitar; this is where my inspiration is going right now. I wanted to ask you guys your experience trying to write purely instrumental songs. I've tried before but have a hard time getting past the first few bars cause I have so many ideas from improvising or whats in my head. It's hard to organize it all. Currently though this is what I'm working on so I figured I'd see what ya'll thought. What are your thoughts about writing, structures, melodies, harmonies, etc.. when it comes to this?

Oh man I was thinking about this earlier today. I think the key to lyrics like these is that they contain "drama", but not be overly "dramatic". Does that make sense? Like there is a big difference between saying some thing like: "My life is all darkness I just want to cry" And something like: "Shadows cast around My eyes burn and blur" The first is blatantly whiny or whatever. The second one says the same thing, but creates visual pictures with drama, action, adjectives and verbs. I don't think you should ever be afraid to go way down into the depths though. If thats where the lyrics begin taking you, go there. Don't hold back because it's too whiny or whatever. Get it out of your system, then if it creates some good ideas, keep them, refine them- then scrap the weak ones, or use them if you get stuck. But yeah. Create drama in a song like this, but don't be overly dramatic. Create pictures with action. Almost seeing the scene like a movie in your head and you are the director. Focus on this. Zoom out on that. Hope it helps.

Thanks for the welcome you guys. Yeah I'm cruisin all over the forum. Specifically I found the site through looking for help with lyrics so I've been there the past day or so. But I know theres tons all over. I'm trying to restrain myself from stayin on here too often and not actually working on my music haha! I also think reviewing others lyrics is such a great idea. Even in reviewing the work of others, individual skills are worked so I'm down. Anyway, again- stoked to be here, I'll see ya'll around

Hi everyone. I just stumbled across these forums and pretty much immediately wanted to join. I've played guitar and wrote my own songs now for about 5 years, and truly I wish I had found a site like this before. My name is Sean, I live in South Carolina. Uh... brief background, I'm currently enlisted in the Air Force, I'm waiting to ship to basic training. Writing and playing music keeps me from going crazy! But seriously, I love love love music. I listen to all kinds, but I'm very fond of melodic folk music, I love classical music, great singer/songwriters and lots of rap, some country, old school etc... pretty much everything far and in between. I found the site initially just looking for a place to get some help with lyrics (a sticking point for me often in music writing), but I have only been on a few minutes and know I've found alot more. So thats me. I'm gonna go ahead and post some lyrics I wrote today so I can get some objective thoughts. I'm excited for someone to consider my lyrics who isn't already a friend of mine. Looking forward to being a part of the community. Thanks! Sean L.