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I'm the lousy writer in our band, our bassist however has come up
with some good stuff. He approaches it in much more conventional
ways than I do. I usually just have melodys or riffs in my head and
I try to put them together, sometimes I'll take two and make a verse
and a bridge. I usually look at it as, I need a way to start the
verse, a way to lead out of the verse into the bridge, and a way out
of the bridge. Do that twice and try to change it a little each
time. The Wedge is a great example, Dick basically plays the same
thing but he changes it just a little the 2nd time through. I try
to keep everything around 2 mins, and I'd rather be under than
over. I think when a surf song gets around 3 mins it's too long for
a crowd of drunk people.
Bill
www.myspace.com/reluctantaquanauts
--- In , "Klas Fjellgren"
<surfites@b...> wrote:
>
> In the Surfites, me and my brother don't write any songs together.
On
> the eventual debut album, we will have 7 originals each. The one
of
> us who have written the tune will play the lead and the other one
the
> rhythm guitar. In my former band, the Daytonas, we had 4 out of 5
> members writing individual songs!
>
> Klas / The Surfites
>
>
> (website recently updated with a new song clip "Dana Point",
written
> by my brother Jerk)
>
>
> --- In , "jacobdobner"
> <jacobdobner@y...> wrote:
> >
> > In the band I am in we are quite lucky. The lead guitarist and I
> > almost always write the songs together. Most of the time I bring
in
> a
> > chords progression and play it while Eric comes up with several
> > things. They may all be good and a longer song is born. Then
> > separately, from the verse, we work on a melody for a chorus
with me
> > playing the rhythm and him the lead. It is a very nice process.
We
> can
> > bang out several songs in the span of 2-3 hours.
> >
> > Jacob Dobner of The 'Verb
> >
> >
> > --- In , "Johnston, Rick"
> > <rick.johnston@u...> wrote:
> > > I think it's clear that most of us start with a riff or some
> never
> > used
> > > before chord progression...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > But I wanted to ask how some of you approach more of the
writing
> > process?
> > >
> > > Do you write Intro, Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus Bridge,
Chorus,
> Chorus
> > >
> > > Or use any kind of set pattern to develop a complete song???
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
