What was great about the freestyling (and even recording) period was that a few lines would often kinda "pop-out" at me and I'd realize that I really wanted to keep them. But when u can match a melody in ur head with a message "in ur heart" (I know it sounds cheesy) then that is TOTAL VICTORY.the best feeling in songwriting I believe. So lately, I've been really trying to turn those melodies into lyrics and I gotta say, sometimes it comes out easy and sometimes its tuff. I even recorded a bunch of them and would try to edit the vocals so the song made wasnt easy, took a lot of time, and in the end, the lyrics still wouldn't always make sense But yes the melodies definitely came out first. The content wasn't very important so I just made up lyrics on the spot. One reason was, though, was that I was trying to teach myself how to sing too. I had/have a "habit" of listening to an instrumental that someone or myself created and coming up with a melody first. roughly, how much text (lyric) I'll have to work with in developing my message or story approximately how many syllables per line will fit comfortably, so I able to do a rough sketch of the overall meter per section approximately how many lines I'll have room for in each section BTW - for me, it's always melody first! Once I know how the melody will move, I also know:
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