I can only answer from the standpoint that I know and that comes from spending most of my life studying the art and science of music theory, a lot of listening, transcription of anything interesting to me, practicing and all that goes with the above.

But I do know some great songwriters that do not take that cerebral tack at all, coming up with nice sounding songs time and again.

From observing those songwriters, I've seen instances where one of their songs may have started out as just chord changes, or just a riff, or just lyrics and the melody and chords get added after that fact, there does not seem to be any pat rule to this.

The one thing that ALL have in common is continued practice at writing songs. I think that being prolific at that is the way to build a reserve of things that work for you and things that don't. I don't know any songwriter that has any kind of success at all who doesn't do that. MANY clunkers in their notebooks and files, some may get resurrected at a later time and part of it may show up in another song or the likes.


--Mac

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