My 365 bass riffs in 365 days project

[Timi]

Don't let anyone stop you, but I don't know how useful it would be. Personally I think writing one complete song per week would give you more at the end of the year.

[Zaulkin]

Don't let anyone stop you, but I don't know how useful it would be. Personally I think writing one complete song per week would give you more at the end of the year.

I agree with this.

[Vince]

Don't let anyone stop you, but I don't know how useful it would be. Personally I think writing one complete song per week would give you more at the end of the year.

I agree with this.

Yes, that's possibly true. I think what I am finding most challenging is coming up with something coherent on a daily basis (not sure what I will do if I go on holidays, get sick or whatever).

If I was doing something on a weekly basis it wouldn't have that "put on the spot" thing.

[Timi]

Then write a song every day!

[Vince]

LOL! no, if I had to write lyrics I'd still be on song #1 this time next year.

I have that unfortunate catch 22 where I feel lyrics should be about stuff I find important, and the stuff I find important is too personal to put into a song.

What I *want* to do, one day is decide what goes with the music (at the moment I'd like either a violinist, a keyboard player with a nice piano patch or a female poet/vocalist) and then I can let them go at it. Everything so far has a structure, so it'd mostly be a matter of stretching things out or repeating them.

[Timi]

I also struggle with lyrics (my standards are way higher than my abilities) but usually can't write songs I'm happy with unless I have vocals first. What I find useful is coming up with vocal melodies (la la) without lyrics and writing music around that. If I don't do that the result is often really busy and then super hard to fit vocals to later...

[Vince]

What I find useful is coming up with vocal melodies (la la) without lyrics and writing music around that. If I don't do that the result is often really busy and then super hard to fit vocals to later...

It's hard, innit? On many instruments you can write melodies that are too difficult for a vocalist to sing or simply sound too busy (imagine a melody that relies heavily on arpeggios, say) And then it might be hard or impossible to make lyrics scan with the melody.

On this thing I'm not bothering, but when I'm preparing stuff for a band I usually play something, leave 16 bars blank then do something then another blank 16 bars etc so the vocalist can do their stuff in the gaps.