You wanna write songs, but words don’t come easy? Keep a journal.
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There are two types of fear (i.e. "the fear of the LORD" and natural fear). Here is the cure to natural fear:
1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Philippians 1:28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
("Be not deceived")
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Fear GOD and lose a lot of the things that this world can give, but gain those things which this world can never even come close to giving anyone.
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 ¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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You are an awesome teacher
You have no idea how much you are helping. Thank you so much for sharing, and for sharing about your fear. Thank you ??????
The power of writing things down is amazing
Great channel. Great talks
Get urge to create, put guitar in lap, press record on phone, play some chords and sing about something. Record for 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 minutes. Song done. Go watch some more TV. Wait for the next urge to create. No pencils needed.
My lyrics have become much tighter by focusing on the emotions and the circumstances around those emotions. The last two songs I've worked on had to do with my feelings for my wife's loving nature – "Coming Up For Air" and my love of the winter – "Bring On The Snow" – both beautiful tight phrases that became easy to write around. I learned this from our Play On sessions.
Go out for a run in your car and start humming…words just come…and a melody
I also keep a journal and a small notebook I carry with me at all times. Whenever I hear something interesting I write it down and sometimes I start with that to begin writing a song. Inspiration can come when you least expect it, so always be prepared to write it down. It could be a word or a whole phrase or even just a concept. The last page of my notebook is for Band Names!
Another tip some might find useful: When I use a notebook instead of anything digital to 'just' write, I noticed that I prefer a pencil instead of a pen. You can erase pencils and that keeps my notes clear and clean. When I use a pen there's a lot of crossing and in the end I get frustrated with the clutter and noise on the paper. Pencil and clean pages keep me focused and allow me to do better.
I admire those that can do that. I find that I am unable to connect with feelings and thoughts so I don’t write. Plus my hand writing is terrible.
For me, the vocal melody and rhythm has to come first. Once I have at least a verse and chorus vocal melody, I'll play it over and over in my head and hum it until it's sticking. Then, humming turns into random words and phrases that follow the rhythm and notes and I'll start writing lyrics that play off of one of those initial random lines. I usually never say to myself, "I'm going to write a song about this, or that". The subject matter comes from my early lines that I hummed.
GOD BLESS YOU BRO.
Berklee College of music has YouTube videos on songwriting. Similar to the journal, Andrea Stolpe, has some great sensory writing or object writing methods. Look up the vids, but in short it involves taking a scene or picture and writing what you see, hear, touch, taste, smell, movement descriptions. Not lyrics but do use colorful adjectives. Sentences and phrases. Do one every day. I paste the picture in a spreadsheet and save them all.
Whenever I hear or think of something I have a notepad file on my cell phone entitled, “Random Lyric Ideas” Found myself writing a lot of lost love themed songs.
Going to take vocal lessons. I want to become a great vocalist!
Btw, is finding people to mix their songs for free if they don't like it is a good starting point?
I'm sure i understand basics of mixing and i have some good mixed and produced songs in my pocket. Just need people to know about me. Love to hear from you, Joe, don't fear, just do it, man. We are all guilty in some way, but it does not matter, you've done so many good stuff at least here, for us.
That's awesome info Joe! I also find myself writing about current events in life and which comes out Great!??
I was hoping maybe you were going to share some (not too compromising) page of your journal… It would be interesting to see differences and similarities with your actual lyrics…
Also, what do you do with all those pages later? Do you revisit them, have some kind of re-reading schedule, or you just use them to "empty your chest" and then leave them behind?
As for me, I've been keeping journals on and off for a lot of years now (although of the "boring kind"…) I don't know about my writing, but it does wonders for my sanity… 🙂
Daily writing is like exercising the writing muscle. After a while it gets easier to start up and use the muscle. What you could do, if you don't know what to write about, is taking a random object and try to describe it as detailed as you can. Shape, colour, texture, how the light bounces off, etc. Start with just plain describing and after that try to describe it in a more poetic way. Once you get the hang of that, it might even lead to an actual lyric for a song. What also helps in addition to this, is setting a limited time, lets say 10 minutes, to do this exercise. Take 10 minutes and try to write about the object as much as you can. Start thinking associatif. Write down anything that comes up in your mind when you look at the object. Really helped me.
For me, finding melody and interesting flow and cadence is the problem.
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