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For me, it works best to start with a rhythm base, and work up a melody line
from there. As the tune develops, the rhythm may be expanded, and breaks or
dynamic changes inserted to accentuate the presence or absence of the
different contributing instruments. Pretty amusing to listen back to some
of my concept tapes, compared to the finished song!
Best regards, Dana Vincent
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From: One Four Six Oh
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Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:54 PM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Song Writing
Hello, I've got a question. I assume there's a bunch of people on this list
that write surf songs. How do you go about doing it? Do you start with a
chord progression and all the chord changes or does it start with a melody
line and build off that? Do you take into consideration all of the
instrumental parts simultaneously when making up parts or do you do one
instruments part and then do the others? I'm just interesting in knowing
how different people go about writing songs and what types of songs they
write. Anybody know anything about how some famous classics were written?
-Thor
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