songwriting

(if i posted this on the wrong board, please let me know) I, along many others, have fallen into the trap that "more complex = better" when it comes to writing and playing basslines. and while I'll still aspire to play like Justin Chancellor or Geddy Lee, I think it's still good to take a step...

I like writing songs, and I tend to do so on guitar because I know way more guitar chords than bass chords! however, I like, when I noodle around on bass, coming up with interesting basslines that I want to incorporate into songs, but I don’t know how because I didn’t make them from an initial...

I've been working on two solo bass albums that are kind of told like musicals. The goal with all of the songs is to make them sound full and complete without additional instrumentation. I've been feeling like the songs really need to be dramatically performed rather than just played, so I am...

and I haven't seen much reaction here, so I thought I'd say something. By way of context, I'm not really a jazz player (guitar and DB). I play with jazz players because I love the harmonic richness of it, and, at least as a bass player, I anchor the harmony and I land on 1. I'm principally a...

i’ve been listening paul mccartney bass lines recently, and something i notice thats particularly interesting is this habit (or some would say... music writing style?!!!:eek:) of grabbing several little swipes of notes on usually the d or g string before usually going back to “home base” on the...

I've been following, and commenting on, many of the threads about understanding the recording process, especially since we've been locked up in our "studios" for months now. As a recording enthusiast since I was very young, it's been interesting to read about all the different levels of...

Pandemics! Am I right? Not really digging this anymore so here's a fun distraction. What is the absolute dumbest, funniest, worst, weirdest couple of words you strung together in rhyme? Feel free to quote a song or go all in and rat yourself out! In my highly objective opinion (get it...

A ‘Reaction’ video on YouTube showing twin brothers (who I’ve been watching quite a while) named Fred & Tim Williams listening to the song for the first time, has been watched 4.7 million times and has caused Phil Collins’ song “In The Air Tonight” to go to no.2 on iTunes. It was released and...

Just like the title suggests, what gets your vote for the perfect song? Feel free to list as many as you think are worthy. I'll start -- Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning". It's just superb. I think it's the vivid lyrics and storytelling... but the melody and structure is...

This was a bit interesting and entertaining. The author hires people on fiverr to write and play most of a song.

A few months ago I quit the band I was in to pursue songwriting and recording of my own material. I had plenty of ideas and a good direction, planned on being a 1 man show at first to get the creative direction established. Then if the songs started getting attention then would try to put a band...

How do you proceed in writing a song? I start from spare riffs but I feel that putting everything together is not the most effective way to make it work. Do you have since the beginning an overall idea about how the whole song will develop?

How to cope with the crushing sense of frustration when you work for months to write/improve your songs but you always feel they are not so good and you feel mediocre and just want to quit.

In the past few songs that I’ve written, the verse ends on the same chord that the chorus begins on. The verse is great. And the chorus is great. They go together, but that transition feels weak. I can’t come up with a bridge/pre-chorus that fits. How would you transition in cases like this?

I like to come up with things but more often than not I’m writing on the guitar. I don’t want to tell the other dudes exactly what to play because I don’t wanna be some control freak. However I feel like being the bassist is sometimes* limiting when presenting new songs to the rest of the band...

Howdy, [TLDR at bottom] I was hoping for some feedback on the structure of this song I've written. I've always been into songs which throw traditional song structure out the window and break up your expectations. I don't intentionally try to write songs like that, but they do turn out that way...