r/Songwriting

Not a serious rant, just something kind of funny.

I made my first ever album, and I wrote a ton of songs that are really special to me. Most of them are about my own self-discovery and my anxieties, and the recording process was pretty experimental (at least for me). I had a fun time making weird sounds with my guitar and a cheap microphone.

Then there’s one song on there that I actually kind of hated by the time I was done with it. I think my vocal performance is some of my worst work, I did a blatantly obvious pitch-correction job, i was too lazy to finish building the instrumental, and the lyrics are just kind of melodramatic. I think the mic even clips at one point. Anyway, I thought it was objectively bad.

But now everyone keeps telling me that was their favorite song. It has the most plays on streaming and everything, too.

I have been thinking about the possible existence of a songwriting club — some place (virtual or physical) where people can meet up and create songs together.

The idea is more focused on learning rather than collaboration or writing songs for free for an artist. This does not mean it could not lead to collaborations, but that would not be the main purpose.

I have already seen multiple songwriting contests or challenges, but submitting lyrics and getting feedback at the end is very different from receiving feedback while actively working on the song.

I was inspired by book clubs, where people gather to discuss a book, and I started wondering about transferring that concept to writing instead of reading.

I was wondering if anyone has ever heard about something like this. What do you think?

First of all, I apologize if I sound ignorant because I AM petty clueless and also English isn't my first language so the terminology may slip.

Anyways, I've been writing a lot of poetry and lyrics that mean something to me in my life and I've been wanting to finally start making steps towards making it actual songs even if I'm still not that far in learning how music works in the first place. I don't aim for much, guess for now I just want to learn to make a decent background for the vocals before I can try creating something that's actually worth it. Either way, given I start with the lyrics, naturally it's the way I imagine the lyrics to sound that sets the melody. But here comes the issue, as soon as I get to composing work in FL everything I do just doesn't seem to fit with the vocals design or only fits one part but then the rhythm gets impossible to follow. It might be that I get too chaotic with writing and can never lie within just one BPM range but maybe there's something else I'm missing that's actually crucial. What should I look out for?

I don’t know, I‘m just treating this as a milestone for whatever reason

as i stated in the title. i have written a few songs, but i can't seem to do it anymore. i tried using my poems as a backbone for lyrics, but most of their subject matter wouldn't fit in a song, or maybe i haven't found a way to relate them musically.
i play the guitar and a few more instruments, and i'm trying to make folk.
would appreciate if anyone who has gone through this can offer some insight. thank you

Obviously I don't plan to pass them off as being my own, but just as an exercise in writing

Hello all!

I am an aspiring producer who wants some experience! If anyone is interested, feel free to DM or comment with your stems (.wav preferably) and we can work together :)

My style is more indie-folk, indie-pop, pop, but I would be open to working in other styles as well.

Is there a common name for this, or an industry standard perhaps?

Management and I was given a song by this new song writer, its a pretty nice song simple and all so we decided to why not create it and add our style.

We asked the writer on how he would want his piece sung and decided on the points to be disbursed since we will be making the composition and all.

He sent a demo which is totally AI. My management and I obviously distinguish AI music a mile away. We asked how he made the demo and said its all AI, but he assured the lyrics is his 100%. We are doubting it now. So we cancelled the deal with him, its unfair on our part that we will be investing heavily on composition, the band, the studio time and all that while he allegedly just used ai to make the song and he wants more than half the points (shares), My management laughed.

Its best to write your own or i guess find true and trusted writers and help bring their vision to life.

How do you deal with the spread of AI music?

So, as I said in my last post here, my concert is this weekend and I'm so stressed about it. Today I went to the repetition of a group who will play too and I thought "she sing with confidence ! I wish I had the same confidence as her in my voice and my songs !" But after half an hour of repetition, she started crying because of pressure I guess ? She kept repeating that her voice wasn't perfect and it made me think that maybe people see me like that.

What I mean is that they may see me as someone with a fragile self love and confidence too. I wish I was confident enough on scene but I feel like I can't be confident enough on scene if I'm sober. Of course I know everything doesn't need to be perfect but I'm still looking at the little things in my song that makes me feel "oh this part is bad as fuck ! I need to correct that." All I do is analysing again and again, comparing my art to others.

I don't know how I will do on scene, just to think about it is making my heart crazy. I know my song and I know that it's not the best but even if I accepted that, I keep being anxious about it.

What should I do ? Should I imagine everyone as a potato ? Or just invite all my friends to be confident by faking it until I make it ? Or should I give up ?

I'm kinda lost and stressed out with school, my own album and this concert, argh kinda complicated to think straight.

Thank you for reading!!

Hi people,

I wanna cry, I spent time on my songs, so much time and my parents just said no because "I didn't told them" like I talked to them before but they don't hear me or whatever. I wanna play my song somewhere, anywhere, really. I wanna share my art and I was supposed to share my art with people but nahhh I can't. I feel like I worked hard for nothing, I feel like I stressed for nothing too.

It reminded me that I can try everything, even writing the best song ever, I can't record it in my house, I can't sing it in front of people and since I can't record, I can't upload it.

I really wanna be a "real" artist (by that I mean an artist like a singer with a community or something like that.)

I can't imagine my life without making music and sharing it to an audience. I'm not that confident but I just feel like my place is on scene and not off scene, working on a desk in front of a computer. I need to dance and to feel emotions I totally forgot. I need music so bad. I know I can create music later but hearing that the biggest project I worked on since the beginning of the year has been shut down is making me so... sad and angry in the same time.

I yap a little too much on this sub so my apologies. People here a really nice and I wanted to use those advice for the concert but guess it's not for now :(

If someone know how to create or just to participate in a free party, please tell me.. I'm so desesperate lol that's crazy.

Anyway thank you for reading!!

It’s easy to write down random lyric ideas and words or phrases connected to the idea, maybe even coming up with a good title to have everything revolve around. But coming up with chords and melody to put those words too?

Actually assembling the song and figuring out which lyrics should go in which section?

Like I know if you practice you’ll get better at it, and they are times where I’m able to make the song about the topic I want, but I don’t know how to be able to do it more consistently.

What’s your step by step process for writing a song about a certain topic?