ShredAstaire Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Are you ever on a roll with a song and then you hit a wall? What are your songwriting roadblocks? My biggest one seems to be "Overcomplicating"....i always hear a simple riff/part and go "thats TOO simple" but really its probably not.... Next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldiablo Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 I have tons of half completed ideas... My biggest block is completing a song from start to finish. I get board with the ideas pretty quickly and move on to the next cool sound before finishing the current one. When I hit a road block I try this... usually does the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 What are your songwriting roadblocks? I've only experienced one songwriting roadblock in my entire life, about 30 years ago. It still hasn't gone away... I'll be moving right along, happy with the song progress - another song pops in my head and derails it. My song, and the other one from God knows where are inextricably linked now. Everything I try to do with mine sounds like the other song, so I sh!t-can the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 That might be a good way to describe what I run into. I get a nice 3 verse and chorus thing and blank when I try to flesh it out... nice break downs, pre-choruses (chorusii?), bridges...:) I've found that if I just wait, eventually I'll come up with what I'm looking for. It means I keep a lot of tunes in a semi-complete stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 Funny - i have a ton of unfinished songs too...but sometimes I go back and think "Umm...why did I record that?" hehehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 /chuckle... yeah, I should record them..... Instead I just make sure I pull them back out of my memory every week or so and play them to make sure I remember them. A BUNCH of my songs start as one thing and evolve to be FAR different, but it would be cool to go back and see where they began. I guess it's just hard drive space :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 Hard Drive space is cheap!! I don't write unless my guitar is plugged in and i am recording. I have a terrible memory and would lose many riffs if I didn't record em as I made em up. :) Also helps me layer the tunes a bit sometimes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 I kinda remember one I wrote as a kid. Several others BC (before computer) are only half remembered. Some lost to sloth or work weeks too busy to save songs for polishing. At best a line or two of lyric or melody remain. Others... well, heck I ain't doin' it for live performance, so they tend to rustle like windblown leaves in the cave of the Sibyl of Cumae as in Virgil's tale, then taken flying into the real world where leaves quickly compost to unrecognized soil. Whatever... Never was a Jerry Jeff Walker or Ian Tyson anyway. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Bridges and/or part C. Sometimes I'll come up with that great verse and triumphant chorus and that's it. Bam! Stopped dead in it's tracks. There is nothing more frustrating. Like being way ahead in a race and hitting a brick wall 20ft from the finish line. I am a slave to the pop song (think Beatles, REM, the Smiths) so all my songs need that extra part to take it to the next level. Also, quit the herb two years ago so I had to re-learn how to channel songs sober. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 My biggest one seems to be "Overcomplicating"....i always hear a simple riff/part and go "thats TOO simple" but really its probably not.... My drummer calls it paralysis by analysis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 My drummer calls it paralysis by analysis. I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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