Originally Posted by Ray E. Strode
Eh, Yes,
I had a set of lyrics once that really looked good on paper. However when I started to work it out, I do my own melody writing on Acoustic Guitar, I found I needed to do some re-writing to complete it. So many times a set of lyrics look good until you start to put them to music.


Every time I write a lyric first, I can never do anything with it musically. I tend to remove myself from music and just write. Almost never works for me, anyway.

When i have the music and melody, often times the lyrics wont be as well thought out, I think that's because melody has more economy than lyrics do.

A three or four note hook can be magical, but if you wrote the lyric first you wouldnt have written that musical hook line, cause we dont write 3 or 4 word lines

Last edited by Fdemetrio; 02/25/19 12:52 PM.