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asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicLyrics · 1 decade ago

I cannot write lyrics, I need tips?

I am a pretty good guitar player but I am terrible at writing lyrics for all stacks of riffs and chord changes I have made over the years....I try to just go with it and humn to it but it never sounds good in my opinion..

If someone can help or at the very least guide on the right track to write lyrics that fit and sound good in my song?

Ps. I also try to use subjects such as a "crushes" or "friends" in songs but even that never works..oh I mainly play acoustic guitar and artists I listen to are or get inspiration from are Glen Hansard, Phil Wickham, Damien Rice etc....

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    sometimes it helps to write the lyrics first, is if you were writing a poem of some sort. Try and include interesting words, use a thesaurus, this will give your song more originality. And then once you have written it, play with different chords and scales until you have thought up a suitable riff that goes with maybe a few lines of your poem/song and then it will just come to you and develop from there.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    What your pal advised you approximately writing lyrics is well-nigh how it is performed. Try writing small notes or recommendations down approximately your emotions or an enjoy you will have had on your existence, or perhaps a dream, it would be something. Then, take the ones recommendations and check out to position them into higher phrases and check out imagining them going together with a few type of track. Try making that track correspond to the temper you wish to set for the tune (how persons would think after they pay attention it.) If you are not able to particularly do this, then probably lyric-writing is not for you. Some persons can do it, a few are not able to. But, if you are enthusiastic about writing such a lot, you would take a look at writing poetry or experiences to get your ideas out, too. Good good fortune with some thing you decide upon. :)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hate to say it, but you wrote this.

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