Words with music, then music with words
I got a phone call this morning from my good friend Mary Dawson, president of CQK Music, a Do Good Music Master, and a delightful lady.
She called to let me know that she'd had some challenges with her web site, which is why it is down, but the conversation quickly moved to an area she and I share a deep passion for, songwriting.
Mary is teaching a class on the topic at a local college, and she was telling me that she had just given her class the assignment of writing new words to the classic song, "Over The Rainbow." Their next assignment, of course, will be to write new music for their own words.
That is, in fact, a great way to write a song, especially if you are brand new to the task. What you end up with might even be pretty good using that method.
My question for you is, what other "tricks" do you know for writing a song? Do they work ?
Send me a note or post a comment, and I'll follow up on the topic later with some results.
She called to let me know that she'd had some challenges with her web site, which is why it is down, but the conversation quickly moved to an area she and I share a deep passion for, songwriting.
Mary is teaching a class on the topic at a local college, and she was telling me that she had just given her class the assignment of writing new words to the classic song, "Over The Rainbow." Their next assignment, of course, will be to write new music for their own words.
That is, in fact, a great way to write a song, especially if you are brand new to the task. What you end up with might even be pretty good using that method.
My question for you is, what other "tricks" do you know for writing a song? Do they work ?
Send me a note or post a comment, and I'll follow up on the topic later with some results.
posted by Lewis at 12:07 AM :: permalink
2 Comments:
PanAsianBiz said...
I think you have an excellent idea going on here...getting others to share and then compiling the results is a great viral idea.
My idea for songwriting...hmmm...I am pretty dumb about these things...but how about poems/poetry? Don't people sometimes want to put their poems to music?
10/21/2006 1:42 PM
Lewis said...
A good idea... sometimes, but not always.
Poems are made to be read, lyrics are written to be sung. Big difference.
That's not to say that poems can't work as lyrics, but they aren't automatic.
Still, might be a good starting point.
10/21/2006 2:03 PM
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