If you constantly write lyrics down, interesting thoughts you have, stories you come up with, words that sound nice melodically you’ll honestly never struggle to write lyrics again
Tip 1: Avoid obvious rhymes Tip 2: use other songs as templates! Tip 3: Dont tell how you feel, use metaphors!!!! describe the things that i feel and see when i feel that certain emotion; pick something specific to you Tip 4: The 5 word challenge... write down the overall message of the song in 5 words Tip 5: make a list of phrases youre not allowed to start with Bonus tip: hey yeah no ooh; use those words generously, those words go a long way!!!
Tbh as someone that has ADHD, this man not only managed to keep me attentive but I also learned something AND got a dopamine boost due to his nature. Thanks Stuart!
I really needed to hear tip #2. I’ve been writing lyrics for years and I was always embarrassed by the fact that I had to use existing songs as a template for my own
this is the beginning of something great. a series of tips by the one and only. Guitar and Other tips and lessons would be amazing by Stuart. Like how to sing while playing guitar and so on
another thing that helped me a lot is to be more willing to stretch out words for longer than youre usually comfortable with, give em a few bars. also something that makes lyrics feel more natural and impactful at times is to give them more space, for a verse, instead of doing line after line of lyrics, throw some bars of just instrumental between them to let them breathe. excellent video stuart, (though i fear you may be lonely and or sad based on very hidden contextual clues)
Stuart, how do you keep reading my mind like this. I wanted to learn Chop suey and saw that you just uploaded it, same thing with apple cider and now just when I want to write a song, you upload this.
Tip 1: Avoid Complete, perfect rhymes ; Use imperfect rhymes more often. Tip 2: Use an existing song as a template (regarding the rhyme scheme, syllables in each line, rhythm etc) Tip 3: Try to be concise with expressing your feelings, thoughts ( add metaphors ) Tip 4: Sum up the songs meaning, main theme in 5 words (or so) Tip 5: Write down clichéd phrases used to express your songs' meaning; Try to be more creative while avoiding those. !Extra tip! : Frequent the use of these words -> hey, ooo, yeah, no.
@@marinmusic we need more music theory, you’re a good teacher, whether it being chromatic scales or explaining music theory, I know it’s boring… but you’d break it down well for your followers
Hey Stuart, I have a question: Do you recommend starting with the lyric-writing, or starting with a melody, and writing lyrics to fit that. Because when I start with lyrics, I always find it hard to think of a unique melody to fit with it, and the exact problem arises the other way round: when I start with a melody, I struggle thinking of lyrics that fit into that tune. A question to add to this is: how do you recommend trying to think of a unique melody. As a huge consumer of music, I sometimes sporadically start humming something unique, but as soon as I realize I'm doing it, my brain automatically just reverts to some random song that sounds kinda similar, and the idea is just lost. Hope you're having a good day (I guess your trip was good as well?)
This is such a big question. Answer #1: every approach is a totally legit approach- lyrics first, melody first, both at the same time… Answer #2: I’ll dive into that in some upcoming vids 😉
It's easier to make a great piece of music without lyrics. If you write lyrics first then the music gets forced to comfort to them somehow and the actual creating of the music suffers as a result because it's much more difficult where as if you create the music and have basically the entire song worked out it can be used as inspiration for the lyrics because the music should have some kind of vibe already to base your ideas off of. People that write lyrics and then put music to them usually don't make music that is very creative or complex. Many famous bands do the music first, then vocalist goe's to work for reasons that I just described.
