Originally Posted by Kristi McKeever

So I can see coming up with some sort of song without a lyric if you have this framework (theory) to go by. Without it, it's all just a bunch of notes and it's a free-for-all.

Now I get why so many people write songs before they know what the music will be! That quote says it all. See, when I first joined this forum I had a hard time understanding how someone could write that way. (I just wrote two of my last three that way...now I kinda like it.) Well, duh...that's because I had a map...I was always driving somewhere...but without that map, everything would have looked like a bunch of roads, all looking the same, so where the heck do we go?

Well, I hope you try to write something instrumentally now, then fuse some lyrics to it. It's a real good feeling. Sometimes it's easier to write a cohesive song, because once you hear it, you know the mood...and it might be easier to write words in any mood than write music in any mood. Different strokes for different folks. -Sly Stone cool

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