Creating a song.....

[4hisglory]

For all of the producers out there, how do you go about creating music for a CD???

[MrTea]

Well with me, it all starts with the song.  Just like a movie starts with a good script, a Good CD, starts with a Good Song. And a song starts with a melody.  Then I may harmonize the melody with an interesting chord pattern. Im a musician, so writing lyrics is a little difficult for me so.  I will let some people who are good lyricist hear it.  And tell them what Im trying to say and they usually take it from there.  I than give It to one of my Sons so they can produce it.  They are pretty good with all the technology.  I can produce it,  but I perferr to focus on songwriting and improvisation.  Also I like working with other people.  They may hear something that Im missing.

[rspikes]

Well with me, it all starts with the song.  Just like a movie starts with a good script, a Good CD, starts with a Good Song. And a song starts with a melody.  Then I may harmonize the melody with an interesting chord pattern. Im a musician, so writing lyrics is a little difficult for me so.  I will let some people who are good lyricist hear it.  And tell them what Im trying to say and they usually take it from there.  I than give It to one of my Sons so they can produce it.  They are pretty good with all the technology.  I can produce it,  but I perferr to focus on songwriting and improvisation.  Also I like working with other people.  They may hear something that Im missing.

Well can you teach me how to create a song(s).  Is it easy to create a song?

[MrTea]

Songwriting , like being a musician is a gift and a craft. To some people, it just comes easy.  Others have to work at it.  Not to say that it can't be learned, but like any craft, you have to study it and practice it.  It's not something you can learn overnight.  It's gonna take commitment, and patience.  But if you stick with it,you can learn it.  If you really won't to learn, their are a lot of good books on the subject.  Just go to www.amazon.com and enter "songwriting" under books.  Also, there are website like www.songwriter101.com you may want to check out.



Peace
MrTea

[TheActress04]

Analyze different styles,pray, and practice until you get it. Inspiration can come at anytime in your sleep at work while watching tv reading so keep a pencil and note pad handy and go at it!!  God Bless!

[SoundofJoy]

For me its starts with the meldoy. Most musicians hear music in stages, first the melody, chords, bass and lastly the rythmn. I hear the melody line and immediately start to chord around it to see where it goes. Here's and example

melody Eb
Eb, F....F...F.....Ab,G,F,F.....Eb,Eb,Eb

Now no words heres the chords I added

chord
bass/RH

G / F Bb Eb
Ab / G C F
A / G C F
Bb / C D F
D / C F Ab
G D / B Eb G
G / Ab B D F
C / G Bb D F
Bb / G Ab C Eb (2x)
Eb / F Bb Eb

Now you just add words and you have a quick praise song.

[Frankly747]

For me, fooling around on the keyboard does wonders.  I'm still new at it (been playing for 16 months now) but love it to pieces.  So I just mess around with my fingers, seeing what good combinations I can get, e.g instead of right hand C, left hand C, how about right hand Cmajor, left hand G (the note)---and what can follow that, say right hand Fsus4, left hand F the key, then right hand F major, left hand G the key.  I then get onto another keybaord, play it out and add the rest of the instruments, i.e drums, strings, percussions etc.
Once the trak is done, I then wait for inspiration to give me a song.  So I could be in a congreation of 3000, listening to a sermon, when a word of knowledge goes out to this one person and I think to myself ---"who can pick me out from a crowd ? "--- and that's one line to a song.  Nex' day, i'm on the line in the supermarket, waiting to pay for groceries and just when I get to the till, i'm the hundredth customer so I get a 40% discount.  Then I think to myself, "Who can show me favour without ulterior motive?"
A few days, or even weeks later, I realise that all along, God has been mercifully holding me and that's why I never back backslid.  So I think to myself, "And who'z the one anchor we all need to know hold?"
Put these three lines together and you may have a part of a song.

Thing to remember is this; a song could take 10 minutes to create; it could also take 10 months 1---additions, deletions, changes to tempo and tones etc.  There's no specific formula coz when song creation has a formula to it, then the soul in the song dies and that's when it all becomes mechanical.  Kinda like Rice and bread for dinner---aint nothing wrong with Rice or Bread except that that particular  combination lacks "soul".

Hola.