Wednesday, February 6, 2013

On Songwriting Today

So apparently one verse, a pre-chorus, and a chorus repeated a few times with a guitar solo in the middle counts as a "song" now??? 

I always figured you needed at least 2 or 3 verses to count as a "real song".

(Doesn't Dylan have like 17 verses in some songs??? ... And I read recently that Leonard Cohen had about 80 verses for "Hallelujah" originally..)

I wrote tons of things that had a verse or two, a riff, a chorus... I never considered them complete songs (I used to call them "song fragments"), mostly which I never added to, mostly because I didn't have a band to play with...

But now...

Shouldn't I just take all those half-songs - add, rinse, repeat, repeat a couple more times... and voila! You got you a song, boy....


1 comment:

  1. Well I just listened to "God Only Knows" .... it is essentially TWO verses (one of them repeated once) and the chorus repeated a bunch... and it totally works (of course).. so maybe this minimalist thing can really work (in the right hands)... but ONE verse still feels like cheating to me... not a complete thought...

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