The hardest part of writing music for me is...

[Omega Myre]

...Making my lyrics singable, if you know what I mean. I have no real problem writing guitar and drum parts, no problem writing lyrics, but I really can't get my lyrics to get into the song. I can't figure how I should sing the lyrics, how fast they should go, etc.
Does anyone have any advice as to how I can fix my problem? Thanks

[Hentaiman]

Well i can't really help except for saying that i also have problem of making an actual song of my lyrics and music, that it'll sound like a real song. its definitely hard.

[Jeremy Kill]

I don't know if you already do this, but maybe record and play the song and then sing gibberish over it to find a nice vocal melody. Then just adjust your lyrics to fit that melody accordingly.

I don't know how well that technique works, I just know some bands do that and it seems to work pretty well for them.

[Gibsum 41]

what i do in a situation like that is make some words longer than others in a verse. that way it'll fill in for the melody and your lyrics wont be shit. remember that in a song every lyric counts

hope i could help

[budgie]

I don't know if you already do this, but maybe record and play the song and then sing gibberish over it to find a nice vocal melody. Then just adjust your lyrics to fit that melody accordingly.

I don't know how well that technique works, I just know some bands do that and it seems to work pretty well for them.

that worked once for me :D

[d4rkst4r]

I don't know if you already do this, but maybe record and play the song and then sing gibberish over it to find a nice vocal melody. Then just adjust your lyrics to fit that melody accordingly.

I don't know how well that technique works, I just know some bands do that and it seems to work pretty well for them.

that worked once for me :D

thats what deryck from sum 41 does, or did. If you watched the making of underclass hero, he does it for confusion and frustration in modern times and he did it for over my head.

[Dylan]

I don't know if you already do this, but maybe record and play the song and then sing gibberish over it to find a nice vocal melody. Then just adjust your lyrics to fit that melody accordingly.

I don't know how well that technique works, I just know some bands do that and it seems to work pretty well for them.

that worked once for me :D

thats what deryck from sum 41 does, or did. If you watched the making of underclass hero, he does it for confusion and frustration in modern times and he did it for over my head.

is that what he did on the All Messed Up and Still Waiting demos? cause it really sound like that.

[I'm A Cunt [*banned*]]

the hardest part of music in all for me is getting my damn guitar stringed and tuned.

:(

[budgie]

the hardest part of music in all for me is getting my damn guitar stringed and tuned.

:(

haha

you should... learn

[d4rkst4r]

I don't know if you already do this, but maybe record and play the song and then sing gibberish over it to find a nice vocal melody. Then just adjust your lyrics to fit that melody accordingly.

I don't know how well that technique works, I just know some bands do that and it seems to work pretty well for them.

that worked once for me :D

thats what deryck from sum 41 does, or did. If you watched the making of underclass hero, he does it for confusion and frustration in modern times and he did it for over my head.

is that what he did on the All Messed Up and Still Waiting demos? cause it really sound like that.

ye, forgot about those ones too and my direction

[kevin5064]

the hardest part for is that i will write this amazing song and i will either be to lazy to write it down, get sick of it, or mostly what happens is it will turn into a rip off of some song i like by another band!! that one makes me so pissed off

[I'm A Cunt [*banned*]]

the hardest part of music in all for me is getting my damn guitar stringed and tuned.

:(

haha

you should... learn

dude i try and try, the fucking shit just wont tune

[Jeremy Kill]

the hardest part of music in all for me is getting my damn guitar stringed and tuned.

:(

haha

you should... learn

dude i try and try, the fucking shit just wont tune

Do you tune by ear or use a tuner?
Sometimes when using a tuner you just have to keep picking at the string while tuning it, because sometimes if you have a cheap one, they can go all wonky even when you haven't touched anything.
But then again, it might be the tuners on your guitar or the bridge.

I'm like kevin5064, I'll write a riff or chord progression that I really like, but then it will be like, "it seems like I heard this somewhere before..." and lo and behold, I'll find out I've written a song similar to one of my favorite bands. I also don't write down stuff I come up with, which I probably should end up doing.

[Vani]

I'm like kevin5064, I'll write a riff or chord progression that I really like, but then it will be like, "it seems like I heard this somewhere before..." and lo and behold, I'll find out I've written a song similar to one of my favorite bands. I also don't write down stuff I come up with, which I probably should end up doing.

That often happens to me too. But then I just need to change the tone or else. Anyway I remember someone asked Deryck in Q&A about how to make music, deryck said it was fine for the beginning, copying a song that we like then change some part of it. Maybe what deryck meant here we could be influenced by other songs then try them on our song with some changes.

I don't really know how to fit the lyrics into the song, because that's my problem too haha. Do you make the whole music yourself? Why don't you ask your band about that maybe the vocalist can handle that

[LTS]

thats' the exact opposite of my problem

i can write songs but i can't seem to compose music to it.

[Jeremy Kill]

I think the trick is writing the music, then coming up with a vocal melody, then writing the lyrics. But I suppose everyone has their own way.

The bassist in Fall Out Boy writes the lyrics first, then the singer composes music to it.

[erikj9]

When I write a song if I write all the music to it first, then write the lyrics, i end up making a good song. but If i start with lyrics and melody, i never seem to get my music to fit in haha if that makes any sense.

[tomhoppus]

The bassist in Fall Out Boy writes the lyrics first, then the singer composes music to it.

And look how well that works

[LTS]

The bassist in Fall Out Boy writes the lyrics first, then the singer composes music to it.

And look how well that works

lmao

[Nic]

I like to write music first. Lyrics usually just pop into my head while I play.