23rd Feb 2009
Writing songs…
I’m really moody lately for a variety of reasons, and I really feel like writing some piano songs. I’ve been wanting to write songs for several years, but was never able to figure out a reliable and easy way of “recording” what I improvise on the piano. I play on the piano from time to time, usually at night when it’s dead silence all around. I had actually made quite a few tunes/melodies that were quite impressive IMO but sadly was never able to take note of / record them on a piece of paper. Lately I’m starting to feel bad since it’s actually a waste of my talent not being able to actually create songs from beginning to end.
I’ve been Googling around for two hours just now trying to figure out a way of recording my songs, not just to record it into a mp3 file or whatsoever, but to actually put it down onto a score/script so that it can be replayed at a later time. What I figured I really need to do is to, after coming up with some basic stuff, I’d have to start jot down the tune onto piece of paper before I completely forget about it. That would help a lot on both being able to replay what I just wrote way easier, also would give me an opportunity to actually review what I wrote structurally, see if I’m missing something like a bridge or a chord, or if certain part of the song can be done in a better way…etc. I had been too lazy doing that before since usually I would enjoy a lot playing random stuff on the piano and totally not in the mood of writing anything down or doing anything technical (well I guess I wasn’t the only person that had the experience, since it really feels “drowning” when you’re really into the music when you basically have no control of yourself to do anything else)
I found this guy’s (David Nevue) website really helpful, well, more like this particular web page that I read. It really gives a great intro to the elements of a song, something that I think I’ve known for a long time but somehow wasn’t on top of my head. So now I’m like, totally understand and ready to start writing something. He had two of his songs on his site, they sounded 90% my style, i.e. something that’s very similar to what I will be writing. Here are the two songs:
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