Making A Song
Making a song is not as easy as many people think it is. Everybody loves music, everybody reacts to music, everybody can relate to music – and that’s why so many people think that making a song is basically like “humming a song” with instruments, and coming up with some words that rhyme.
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It’s not as easy as that. There’s a lot of theory and techniques to it if you want to compose songs. If you are a musician with lots of experience and skills, then it will be easier, because lots of the “theory” and many of the techniques will already be in your blood. But if you are not an experienced musician, making a song takes even more work and learning.
The Lyrics
Writing lyrics is one half of making a song – and it is by far the easier part. In fact, if you look at some of the lyrics of top-10-hits, you will see that in fact it often takes very little lyrics at all. The magic is in the music. However, having said that – if you pick your words masterfully, then it can be a really touching and deep experience for the listeners, and they will want more of you. If your lyrics are a better description of the emotional experiences that your listeners are going through than they could come up with themselves, than you will create rabid fans who will be almost “addicted” to your music, where that strong emotional bond is created.
The Music
The musical part of making a song is most challenging to most people. Music is the ultimative creative endaveour – you have almost unlimited freedom, but you have to find a way to create a beauty from that freedom so that you can transform it into something beautiful.
On a more mundane level, there are techniques, methods and “templates” that will make it a lot easier for you to create a great song. In fact, many of the most popular songs are either inspired by other songs, or they are even new interpretations of old songs. Think about it: even hiphop is often using elements and melodies from classical music. So you can really take ideas and inspiration from different musical genres and just integrate them into whatever it is that you are creating.
The first part of a song is the intro – and the intro is basically there to “warm people up”. It’s kind of like greeting somebody, saying “hi, how are you” before you talk about other things. Even when you meet friends, you start of with a simple greeting, before you go into deeper things. And it’s just like that with musical intros. In fact, you can learn a lot from human interactions when it comes to figuring out how to make a song.
And that should also be your guiding light for what comes after the intro: engagement, interaction. You don’t want your music to be a one-way-street. You want people to be able to instantly join in. Either by singing (out loud or just in their head), either by banging their heads, or by tapping their feet – you want to engage people, you want them to be part of the music. And just after the intro is the best moment to get a bit of engagement. Not yet the full, raving, extatic engagement that you aim for later, but you want them to react here and have them DO SOMETHING, actually reacting physically to your music.
Afterwards, you can either go “more advanved & technical”, like with a guitar solo, or you go more mainstream and make it a total sing-a-long song.
I hope you found this overview of how to make a song useful. If there are other questions you have in your mind, just let me know.