How are songs composed?

Question

Like how singers think and compose their own songs? Tell me whether i'm right, but is it because they suddenly get a very good melody or tune in their head and just add words into it? Please advise because i would really like to make my own songs

Answer 1

it will very tremendously.

Paul McCartney once awoke with a tune in his head and played it on a keyboard he kept by this bed, he called it "Scrambled Eggs". thinking it was song he had heard before did not work on it more. after a while and asking several people he decided it was a new song that he had created and decided to finish it, finally calling it "Yesterday".

Keith Richards of the rolling stones used to a have a tape recorder on while he would play guitar. One time he passed out while playing and when he awoke in the morning he listened to the tape. what he heard on the tape right before the tape ended were the cords for "Satisfaction".

Steven Tyler of aerosmith sometimes will take the music the rest of the band has record and will scat to it and just write down any words that come to mind. then he will use this come up with the words for the songs. i know he used to do this on the first albums, not sure if he still does.

other people will go off into a room will write and write and write. they will not leave until they are happy with the words. usually they are playing a guitar or piano and think of words to go with the chords that they are playing. and they will play the same couple of chords over and over until they like how the words and music intertwine.

other times will be something your hear or see that will inspire a song in you.

the best thing i can say is just write. write about anything and everything. get into a rhyth, a pattern.

Answer 2

Go either way. Do you play an instrument? Sometimes you get an idea for a melody. Now you might have to fill it with lyrics as an option. On the other hand you get an idea in your head for the lyrics but there is no melody to go with it. Like I advised someone else, Bernie Taupin wrote poetry and Elton John wrote the melody. If you can do both, more power to you. Unless you're into Rap where the poetry comes first then is set to a beat, the melody is totally non-existant. If you have a melody, think back on what moved you to write the melody in the first place and fit that mood into the lyrics. On the other hand, maybe you have just composed a brilliant instrumental! In that case, let it go at that!

Answer 3

Songwriters would come up with a subject first, then write and compose the melody at the same time. You definetely need to know music theory and how to read it, but a song won't be perfect the first time you write it. You need to keep re-working it until it sounds really good.

Answer 4

They can come up with a melody first then write the lyrics or they can write the lyrics first then put it to music it doesn't matter. My favorite song writer is Chris Cornell. He gets ideas from everything including the sound of flushing toilets. I would listen to Kurt Cobain, Pink Floyd, Bob Mould, Frank Black, The Beatles and Bruce Springsteen.

Answer 5

well its not that they sit and just think about a tune.sometimes they sit n get ideas for words/songs in there head n work on a tune from there or they come up with an ideal tune fix it up then write words for it