Song writing Lesson.
Recipe for an easy blues song.
3 lines per verse. First and second lines are the same words.
The third line ends in a word that is a rhyme or near rhyme for the last word in the first lines.
The third line resolves or answers or somehow completes what was said in the previous 2 lines.
The first line is often about 12 syllables give or take a few syllables. The third line is about the same.
Classic example from John Lee Hooker
The chord structure shown can be used for many songs/
Here, I is a G, IV is a C and V is a D.
I read your (I) add this morning,
you said you want a real good man.
I read your (IV) add this morning,
you said you want a real good (I) man.
Now I’m (V)here for you honey and (IV) I wanna
know your (I) plan. (V)
Near rhyme – different song – same pattern:
If the river was whiskey and I was a diving duck. (x2)
I would swim to the bottom, drink my way back up.
Duck and up are NEAR RHYMES.
2 to 4 verses is a nice length
Songs often end by repeating a verse at the end.
Practice verses- you write the 3rd line:
I got a 3 string, a 4 string,
a deuce and a diddley bow. (x2)
__________________________________________
3rd line has to end in a rhyme or near rhyme for bow.
So: The grass is gittin long, I gotta go out and mow.
Better: I got 4 cbgs and I want to build some more.
I got tuners from Gitty
and a tail piece made of brass. (x2)
______________________________________________
I want to loop like bemuzic and pick like keni lee (x2)
__________________________________________
I want a Brickdust haircut and a hat like Uncle John (x2)
_________________________________________________________
Hope you get the idea, hope you have some fun.
Comment
Back for more as usual... this is just so useful
You are welcome, Tramp and this formula (and some others) truly works. Also, agree with your bold print.
Thanks Uncle John. The one thing I love about the nation is that 99.9% of people are on here to help each other without profit or gain. Thankyou.
The blues feeling is international and color blind
Thanks, Bug. You write a lot of GOOD songs.
Thanks UJ, it's lame but thats what ya get for less than 2 minutes thought on an altered mind distrubed by a nearby radiation leak!
LOL Jeff.
Sorry folk's can't help myself!
The feds say it's safe outside
The feds say it's safe outside
But Byron's spewing Nuke Iodide
So share the Potassium Iodine
So share the Potassium Iodine
Cuz I don't wanna shine
Bada dinga,
dinga ding.
Dinga linga,
linga ling?
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