Timeline for Writer's block: how do you know when lyrics are "ready"?
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| Feb 11, 2019 at 19:26 | history | edited | Laurence | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 11, 2019 at 16:22 | comment | added | Time4Tea | I like this answer. I've always had trouble with writing songs that I get halfway through, decide it's rubbish and give up. I guess you have to get the trash out of the way, before you can find those few gold nuggets? | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 12:19 | comment | added | Laurence | It will be finished in the sense that it can be played, from beginning to end. There will be much to criticise. Parts of it may be unoriginal. The next one will be better. Move on to the next one. The point is to break away from being one of those bedroom musicians who has been agonising over the details of a few songs for many years but never produced three minutes of continuous music! For now, good enough is good enough. Perfection isn't the goal. Move on. It works! | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 10:39 | comment | added | antgel | How can something be "finished" with dummy lyrics or generic music? Genuinely confused. :) | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 15:42 | comment | added | Laurence | 'Nowhere near ready' is fine. You'd be surprised what can be achieved in 4 hours. Use dummy lyrics if you must. Or use a generic musical pattern. The main thing is, FINISH IT. Tomorrow you start on a new one. | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 14:30 | comment | added | antgel | When you say "studio time", do you mean "recording an idea that's (nearly) ready", or "polishing writing and recording an idea that's nowhere near ready"? Because I'm talking about the ideation, before I even start recording. :) NB You may be on the right track - time management has always been an issue for me, even with regard to practicing guitar, but I'm making progress on that front. | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 14:24 | comment | added | user19146 | Good advice, with a long history. One of Rossini's students complained that he couldn't find any good lyrics for writing an operatic aria. Rossini hunted around in his desk for a few minutes, gave him a piece of paper, and said "this is your next week's assignment." The paper was an old shopping list. | |
| Apr 15, 2017 at 12:52 | history | answered | Laurence | CC BY-SA 3.0 |