Originally Posted by Andrew Dee
I have the musical basis (chords and melody) for a song, but no lyrics.

Andrew

I am probably no help here . . . Only twice have I ever tried starting with music and no lyrics and both tunes still sit on my hard drive - one with no lyrics and one with 2 lines of a "chorus". It's been quite interesting to read everyone's style and flow. For me 80% of the time it's my acoustic in my lap and pad & pencil on the desk and I write the music and lyrics together. The other 20% I have the lyrics or at least a real strong idea of where the song will go and then I grab a guitar and see what the lyric flow needs. I probably work this way because I typically write story songs so I can't be chopping lyrics up to make it fit a tune, I need to let the music fit and support the words.

Finding lyrics and ideas, for me, is the easy part. I probably get two or three song ideas every day and about one in ten I'll actually remember, or like enough, to do something with. Pretty impressed with y'all out there who can just sit down and write a song whenever you want. I have to have something (or someone) to write about.

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