Originally Posted By: BlueAttitude
For us most of the time the music comes first. I come up with an idea on guitar and will send it over to my friend in Germany who writes the lyrics. She develops the melody first by vamping along to the track I sent her, and once she has a melody she starts developing the lyrics. She has a book full of lyric ideas she draws from, she writes everything down, or it might be something the just pops into her head while watching the news, etc.
That sounds so cool! I have to wonder what a book full of lyric ideas looks like. I'm imagining a scrape book for some reason. grin


Cheers,
Ember