Originally Posted By: Noel96
With all sincerity, this is such an inspiring composition.

Wow! Thanks! laugh

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It wasn't until near the end of the song that I even realised it was a vocaloid doing the singing.

I'll have to track down that autotune bit! wink

Seriously though, thanks. The real goal here is to present the song, and I'm glad the synthetic voice isn't getting in the way. I can't take that much credit for how successful it is, since the software developer did most the work. It feels a bit like taking credit for a BiaB guitar solo.

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In case it's useful as "food for thought" for you, below is a lyric-writing strategy of mine. Read at your risk smile (or ignore it even)

Thanks for this! I've read through it a couple of times, and will look at it some more later.

Sometimes it simply takes a long time for my brain to shift into "creative" mode, and these are good exercises to follow. I especially like the idea of internal/external.

For me (and I suspect many others), songwriting is just hard work. And there's nothing the matter with that, but tools to get out of a non-productive rut are always welcome.

But I thought you might be amused to know that at one point, I actually did write a full set stream-of-consciousness of lyrics for this song. It resulted in "gems" such as:

the way things you like / are the wrong kind of blue

and

but the glass clarinet / refuses to / play the right song

Usually these sorts of exercises produce something usable. Once that "seed" is found, there's something to build on, no matter how slight. I just knew that everything I was doing was going the wrong direction and, like that ship in the Suez Canal, it took a long time to get turned the right way round.

Thanks again for your enthusiastic support! laugh

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?