Sharp Practise
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1/17/2008 8:38:24 AM
Last instalment on the new songs
Well, I’m still wittering on about songs this time (although I will change tack next time, promise). I guess it’s because songs are, funnily enough, quite important to a songwriter!
I’m into a batch of new songs now. One, Nothing Is More, is quite powerful and features a through composed verse, which is basically saying that the hook line appears in the last line of the verse rather than in a discrete chorus.
Sound of Rock is more anthemic, yet in an atmospheric way with very sparse lyrics and not a stadium sized sound despite the power of the guitar line. Magnet is still under development but is a traditional melodic rock song with a singalong chorus.
So I’m quite hopeful that I have a good batch of songs as the basic building blocks of the album. Obviously these will need to be polished over the coming weeks and months to form a coherent piece of work.
And I write pretty much all the time, so there may be more to add to the stock while I’m getting the framework of the new record into place.
I’m going to be working on Magnet quite a bit between now and my next entry, so what I thought I’d do is talk through the process of how I write a song – it’s a question songwriters often get asked so I may as well answer it.
See you for the next instalment in a couple of weeks’ time. Keep strummin’!
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