r/Songwriting

Hi, so first ever post here... I absolutely love music and have written poems for 20 years. Just wondering if there is any advice out there for how I could become a lyricist. I know the style and structure of poetry is not the same as writing lyrics. I can read music a little and have starting learning piano but nowhere near being at the level to compose my own music yet!

I’ve been a musician for 12 years now. I can play guitar, piano and trumpet but I can’t afford to go and get a drum set or learn string instruments and then go and record it all. Would people generally look down on the process of writing out a drum part in like MuseScore or something and using that in their actual song? Obviously it won’t sound as good as real drums but learning and recording my own isn’t possible and I don’t really wanna outsource it to someone else.

Just curious what everyone thinks. Also, I’m not using AI for anything!

Im not a part of this community , i dont intend on joining , and i dont write music myself but i have a question . How do you get past the feeling of not having anything valuable to add to MUSIC AS A WHOLE , how can an artist look past that ? This isnt a super pointed question but it crossed my mind . It seems like itd be pretty demoralizing after so long

Just a rough idea. I wanna know if u think there’s something there? Should I see it through? Ive written like well over a hundred songs by now and I feel like they’re all just depressing sounding. I’m not good with lyrics either. Lmk what u think

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Hey all! I've been recording music at home for a while now, but I'm here looking for advice at the moment because I'm feeling pretty stuck on something. I'm currently running a late 2012 IMac and a 2017 ASUS gaming laptop, I switch between them fairly often for recording because they both run Reaper and I am comfortable with both OSs. I will soon be coming into a decent sum of money and am very set on upgrading, but that's where my current issue lies. I've already decided to buy a decent windows PC, and was intending to buy a Macbook Pro for both recording and general use. the problem is that the price tag on a new Macbook Pro being $4,800 seems far too expensive (more than I am even spending on the PC!), the Macbook Neo and Air, while having a smaller price tag, both seem partially too weak for what I am looking for, but I love apples compatibility between devices. I cant find any truly unbiased opinions on this matter because every "mac vs windows" post or blog or website I see is just the 2 extremes of either apple fanboys glazing macs, or windows fanboys saying macs are useless E-waste. so that's how I ended up here, I thought getting opinions from people who use these devices for the same reasons as I will be, would be able to give me some unbiased opinions for my specific case. should I just suck it up and fork over the cash for a macbook, or should I just stick with getting the same quality windows laptop for half the price.

might be a dumb question but i see alot of advice out here saying to study and learn from x musician or analyze songs you like but what must i do to do that? say i learn a song on guitar and can sing along to it. do i go ‘oh so this person uses a lot of inversions’ and general stuff like that or do i actually get into the nitty gritty of like the roman numerals of a chord progression and stuff lol. same thing for analyzing melodies.

if i did do that right id just practice it after by trying to use something i liked and learned from that song in a song im working on right?

thanks for any advice just fairly curious and couldn’t find earlier posts, sorry if this is on a saturated topic!

I have these 3 complete written songs, and I wanted to know if going to a studio with a professional engineer would be helpful in making the songs come to life. I like how I sound when I sing them out loud, but when I try to use my cheap mic($30) on BandLab I sound like a dying goat. Is it just my voice? When I sing around my family they tell me my voice is really harmonic. I haven’t gotten any professional training done, I just sing to myself in my free time. What do you guys think?

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That’s all. Quick glimpse into everyone’s style and process, hopefully folks can take a few points of inspiration from each other