Writers of music?

[Bullet Theory]

does neone here write their own music/lyrics?

[island gurl]

hey. I wrote my own lyrics. I need someone to compose some music to go with my word. Any takers?

[amibasuki]

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I've written some songs and stuff like that. they all suck though :cross:.

back in my middle school during 6th grade, a couple of my friends and I tried starting a singing group. seriously loads of fun. that was back when the whole boy-band thing was huge; we wanted to be the female version of NSYNC, lol. not ashamed to say it, really. just twelve-year old girls having a good time during recess. also gives me something to snicker about every now and then, heh. we wrote about five songs or so, and even put tunes and some harmony to them. I thought we sounded pretty darn good. course, I can't go off of that now, cuz who knows how good*cough*[size=1]bad[/size]*cough* we actually sounded. we had some of the cheesiest of the cheese songs though, lol. one of my friends kept a copy of one of the songs I wrote, and now it's a source of endless amusement (for her, nyeh).

so yeah. I write crap. *go me!*[/FONT]

[Xyandar]

me and my band make our own music and cover some bands music also. Its pretty fun but hard makin our music and making it fit together. We habve 4 songs recorded. They are instrumentals because we need a singer lol:P

[Nate]

I have made several songs, and i am making a song for viola....which is basically a big violin..

but it sucks, so..heh. But, yes, i have mad several songs. One called 'White dove', and some raps, but that's behind me. Are any of you all that do gonna post them up?

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo]I have been composing music for a little while now. When I was in high school I actually won a small scholarship for a brass chamber music piece I wrote. I really haven?t been involved in too many symphonic groups since I entered college.

For the past three or four years I have slowly been becoming familiar enough with guitar chord progressions to utilize them adequately enough to write music. I have written a couple songs and I actually cannot wait until I get my tax return so I can finish my computer and add the necessary software and equipment to allow me to record and edit my music. I know I am not talented enough to ever have my songs purchased, but it is a fun hobby that brings me a ton of satisfaction.[/color]

[Rockstar Haruko]

I write my own lyrics all the time. I'm constantly thinking up new ones because there are too many weird things happening in my life. (I think I'm enjoying it too.) I play the guitar also so that sorta goes along with it.

[Bullet Theory]

ill post one of mine

its calld "Why"

Why?
Verse 1- It was such a short time
not lasting even a week
you said u loved me
i guess the love was fake

chorus- why?
why did u go and leave me
all alone out in the cold
barely holding on
to wat we used to b?
(repeat)

verse 2- the reasons u gave were only excuses
excuses ive heard too many times b4
i cant believe u couldnt trust me
it doesnt matter nemore
(chorus)

Verse 3- Well its over now
nothing left to say
This changes everything
i cant look at u the same
(chorus) x2

[Artemis]

I've written a little here and there. I'm an avid piano player, so it's all for piano. One is theme and variation on the theme song to an anime I've never seen (ask duorocks17), and another is based on a minor version of Pachabel's Canon in D. Those are the only finished ones, and only the second has lyrics. It's really fun though! I enjoy it. It at least gives me something to do. I might possibly perform (play and sing) the Canon in D Minor for our upcoming variety show.

[Bullet Theory]

speaking of variety shows, me and my band (called Reijin which is Japanese for "court musician") are planning on proforming Linkin Park's Faint for our skool talent show. i am a vocalist and the turntables.

[The_Ghost]

I love to write my own stuff. It's kind of cool to hear someone else play a piece and be like "Hey, I wrote that! Me! Not some dead composer-dude! Me!" Ha, at least that's the way my friends and I see it!
I'm in a class where we study different types of music and learn how to write it. I love it! We've written hymns, A Leit Motif (A story with different themes for each character) and at the moment we're working on writing a Jazz swing chart. It's a group effort, and that's not going very well:rolleyes:
I liked to write music before the class, but it was mostly for either piano (a bit more classical sounding) or my alto saxophone. (All Jazz, all the time) On piano, I seem to always get stuck after a page or so worth of stuff (I get caught up in chord changes) I write some music for guitar too, but its not as good (I just got my guitar last summer and I haven't taken a lesson yet!)
I write lyrics too, but I rarely put music to them. It's more like a poem with song format.

[Minako]

I have written some violin duets and I'm half way through a violin/viola duet.

I also write some lyrics if some good ones come to mind but I have a guitar, it's just that I don't have a lot of time to play it. I can't ever reach the F chord either...

[AnonymousSource]

I am currently in a band and have wrote 5 rock songs... there's a thread around here somewhere that I posted them in... If I could find it I'd show you my work, and a few new stuff I'm doing, but that's not what this is for!

I write a lot of music, especially when I have an overflow of emotions of some sort, happy, sad, angry, anything works, really!

I like to think I write good songs, and I get really excited when something is working for me, but I'm not a very good judge because I am the one who made it...

My friend (the bassman in our group) does MOST of the musical stuff, and he says he likes my work, too. I write a good start, but he perfects it...

We are getting a new recording system that copies songs onto the computer from the mixing board, so I might get some sound clips to put in here someday!

Right now we aren't messing with new stuff a whole lot, we're mostly just trying to learn a few covers (Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana... I'm a baritone trying to sing that high... without head tone!) so we can do a good show somewhere and then we'll work on our own stuff more once they begin to shower us with money... or vegetables...

[duorocks17]

I wrote two songs for the story I am currently writing. They have to deal with some of the minor issues in the story. I don't consider them that great, but some of my friends due. I can play the song in my head, but have a hard time finding the chords and stuff when i try to play it. It never sounds the same, and it usually takes me awhile. But hey, isn't that what all great musicians have to do? Only a few people can easily make the stuff in their head, into sheet music, right?? *looks around*

[Mitch]

[size=1] I write poems. Not sure if you'd call them songs...but I could really see them as songs.

Eventually I'm going to learn to play guitar and make personal music for myself, and maybe for others that it matters to.

If you want to see some of my stuff, check out the poetry forum. Should be plenty of stuff there. Too lazy to post something.[/size]

[The Mac Attack]

Back in the day I was quite into music, primarily composition. I have Grade 4 AMEB qualifications in Music Theory with Honors.

I tend to vary in genres, but more recently have adopted modern simple music (that is to be based around riffs and ostinatoes). And even more recently I rarely write at all. Occasionally I'll make up a little theme on the piano and then maybe enter it into the computer. The last theme I produced came about when I was trying to transcribe the Haibane-Renmei opening theme.

My strongest area is harmony. I specialise in SATB choir arrangements, the structures of which can also be applied to string, woodwind and brass instruments.

My next strongest area would be sequences. A sequence is where you repeat a melodic phrase at a different pitch. I'd once discovered what I considered a golden harmonic opportunity for them based on a progression of I-IV-VII-III in minor keys. Analysing almost any of my pieces would reveal this harmony used as a sequence, as I used to be quite obsessed with it.

The majority of my pieces struggle to get over a minute. This is because I usually don't have the patience to stick to a project.

Anyway, I've attached remnents of a song I once attempted (in a zip file). It's adapted from a Sea Shanty me and my friends made called "Can I be Your Manager?". I wont post the lyrics as I believe them not to be appropriate enough. The melodic line may sound a bit messed up in the second verse, as this is where I gave up.

[Guest FrenchTaunter]

hey mac, i just checked out ur MIDI. that was amazing, very nice, marvelous, and other words that mean "good".

[The Mac Attack]

[quote][i]Originally Posted by FrenchTaunter:[/i]
hey mac, i just checked out ur MIDI. that was amazing, very nice, marvelous, and other words that mean "good".[/quote]
Thankyou. You are most gracious.

If anyone would be interested in hearing more themes, please let me know.

[Bullet Theory]

i have to agree with my brother. that MIDI excelent. i found it very creative and.....well kick as....butt. (im trying to stop cussing lol) well im gonna go. guitar lessons and such

[Mitch]

[size=1] I supposed I'll post this one piece here.

I find it to be a song more than anything. [/size]

I
There once was a boy,
and he showered the world with love.

He'd twist and twirl on his hands and face,
land all over the place.
He'd tell his mother he loved her,
and they'd hug each other in their arms.

The boy is dead.
The boy is dead.
He's dead
He's dead.

Like a mirror you can't always see it right.
Like a kiss you can't always feel its might.
Like a boy you can't ever be so small.

Now's a time to be so small
in a time so big.
The boy's dead, took him in a hearse.

Hearses can't hear,
and I think the boy was alive.
And I think the embalmer didn't know.
Baby it's so long to go.
And the boy's dead.

He's dead.
He's not here to stay.
Bury him
solemn dismay.

Solemn dismay.

Bury him.
They killed him.
He's dead.

Now's a time to be so small
in a time so big.

II
Where's the feeling gone
where's the touch I've always known.
Dead.

Dead
on the surface
but alive
and moving.

The boy turned to a man.
And the man buried the boy.
And the boy was still alive.

I heard footsteps upstairs,
it was his mother.
The boy's mother and she was walking.
And I wonder if she's going to come.
Is she going to yell?

Why doesn't she sleep?
Why does she care?
The boy's dead.

The boy's bare.

He doesn't kiss his mommy anymore,
and he needs to go on when he feels so sore.
His mommy thinks he hates her,
he doesn't know anymore.

"Love you," she says so often.
And all the same she smokes away.
Killing herself where the love fades.
Selfish dead going away.
She's killing herself with her own ways.
The boy doesn't know what to say.

"Love you," she says so often.
And he loves her too.
But how he doesn't know.
Is it even true?

The man says nothing
and the boy wants to cry,
and kiss and hug her.
But the man's killed him.
You can't say much when you've died.
Best to just shut those eyes.

There is no answer to the love.
And so the boy gets more dead and done.

Wishing for something I've never had.
Wishing for faith that isn't from the sky.
When it comes it'll fall.
When it comes it'll probably break us both.

Wishing's for the boy.
He's got to die.
He's already dead.
Shot him right in the head.
But it wasn't anything he said.

Dreams are wishes and they are there.
And the boy wanted to be scientist.
Then a geneticist.
Where has it gone?
Where is it still alive?

Don't know.
It died.

Can you bury something that's always alive?
Can you feel something you want to bide?
Can you reach with your hands and feel?
I can't.
I've killed.

Dreams are fading
wishing for them back.
But can't have something
that isn't there.

Want to snub this all
like mommy does with her cigarettes.
Want to smoke in the ashes
like mommy does with her cigs.

Want to feel the smoke
as it burns
and feel my heart
beating, thudding
blurred.
Want to feel alive
not held back in this hell.

Want to even things out
want to know all ends well.

Want someone there that knows me more
that feels closer and can feel these sores.

Might as well not wish anymore.
Might as well just be so sore.

She smokes the cigarettes
and I wish my thoughts.
Contemplating what it's like to have lived
while she's sucking it dry as she inhales.

Told her once
told her twice
told her many times
too many to suffice.
And she still smokes every day.
And the smoke fills the room
and smell it in dismay.

Never gonna end
it's never gonna stay.
She'll kill herself
while the boy rots in his grave.

I guess it's an equal exchange.

A life for a death.
It's never going to change.
I guess it's an equal exchange.

Can I tell her I love her?
She can tell me the same.
Guess I just don't want to matter.
Guess I just feel me change.

Guess I'm going to have to
watch her die.
Nothing more to do
I'll be fine.

Nothing more to do
I'll be fine.

She'll fall over
it just takes time.
I'll even out
it just takes time.

Nothing more to do
I'll be fine.

[size=1] By the way, I can tell what it's about, and whatnot, if someone wants that. I think it speaks for itself--to me, at least.[/size]

[Rockstar Haruko]

This is your song? Wow. This is really sad. I would post up one of my songs, but their kind of confusing to myself. Their like bits and pieces of different subjects that I just mix into one song. Their mostly about a few experiences of mine and my feelings about everyhing.

[xxxGothChickxxx]

Yes, I write a lot of songs for my band which is a heavy metal/death metal band. And I write tons of poetry. Hehe. ^_^