Originally Posted By: Ember - PG Music
Now I am curious what everyone else's methods are. Do you use sheet music and write out what you want to do first? Do you jam by yourself or with others and write down chords as you play them, then apply lyrics (if at all) to them later? Or do you start with lyrics first and work on the sound to match later? Or perhaps something else? I'd love to know!


Personally....
I've written songs with all approaches mentioned here and by subsequent posters.
The most important aspect of putting a song together is the subject matter/story line.
Once I've nailed that down anything can drive me to continue to a finished product.
Could be a chord progression I've been putzing with, hook line lyric.
Sometimes I finish lyrics first, sometimes chord progression or arrangement is completed first and I'll structure further lyrics to that.

I'm not a love song/crooner/ballad kind of writer.
But, in a recent one (last year) the line She Sizzles came to my pea brain.
It stuck with me and after a few weeks I finished up the lyrics for it and the music was structured around the lyrical arrangement.

So....I really have no propensity toward either of the various song writing approaches.
It's interesting to hear how everyone finishes up their song writing efforts.

Back to topic.....

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