But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.