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So I'd thought I'd share something that I found interesting.
Writing lyrics.
I've always wrote something down, or noted it in my phone when thinking that might sound good, and tried to shoehorn it into a song after coming up with a riff or verse.
Then I remembered an interview I watched with Paul Simon about this.
What he would do is: Listen to the verse on a tape loop on his reel to reel continuously and just ramble off sentences randomly until something stuck.
So I've taken my first forays into home recording and I did exactly that. Except I didn't need to cut my verse into a loop for a reel to reel.
It seemed to work.
I previously noted some terms I wanted to make sure I had in the song and just kept looping over and over and over and in about 6 hours I had acceptable lyrics for 3 verses and 3 chorus.
But my ears were dead, after that and was in no mood to try and record the vocal line for the song.
I'll probably get back to that after Christmas.
Do you people have a process, or just the "live copy and paste " method
Writing lyrics.
I've always wrote something down, or noted it in my phone when thinking that might sound good, and tried to shoehorn it into a song after coming up with a riff or verse.
Then I remembered an interview I watched with Paul Simon about this.
What he would do is: Listen to the verse on a tape loop on his reel to reel continuously and just ramble off sentences randomly until something stuck.
So I've taken my first forays into home recording and I did exactly that. Except I didn't need to cut my verse into a loop for a reel to reel.
It seemed to work.
I previously noted some terms I wanted to make sure I had in the song and just kept looping over and over and over and in about 6 hours I had acceptable lyrics for 3 verses and 3 chorus.
But my ears were dead, after that and was in no mood to try and record the vocal line for the song.
I'll probably get back to that after Christmas.
Do you people have a process, or just the "live copy and paste " method