Music doesn’t need words to be powerful. It doesn’t need meaning to be emotional. That means if we are bothering to put words to music, we better make them count. You may be surprised but this doesn’t always happen. Certain genres and traditions use words simply as something to “mouth” …
Listening to music is an emotional experience. Music makes us feel something, but at the same time, you can’t feel anything if you didn’t have that feeling to begin with. So it takes two — the musicmakers infuse their music with emotions they bring, but the receiving end also has …
If your songs start with words first, here are some basic ways to approach writing melodies to those words. First analyze the lines from more mechanical point of view: Where are the strong words/syllables? Which syllables are long/short? Next, figure out what kind of feeling you want to convey in …
If you are writing songs with lyrics, and if your goal is to create an emotional impact, then this is perhaps one of the fundamental concepts that you’ll want to keep in mind. This is such an often-missed opportunity (even among songs that are very impactful already), though it is …
An impactful song is one where all the elements work together to form a cohesive, focused expression. Let’s think about this for a moment. Most of the time, a song is a short form where it just focuses on one feeling. There are longer songs that go through various sections …