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I came across an interesting blog a couple of weeks ago called Hunting The Muse: A Creative Writing Blog.

I read several of the articles, one of which, Writing about dreams, caught my attention. Brady, the blog author, was talking about capturing story ideas from our dreams. What better place, right? I mean, we all have superfunkacalifragisexy dreams from time to time that lead to interesting story ideas.

Well, I commented that musicians could do the same. If you're dreaming of playing or hearing wonderful music, you could keep a voice recorder by your bed and try to hum the melody or bass line to the music. Then, when you wake up, try to play what you recorded.

But enough about how cool his blog is...

Here's the scoop ...

I've asked Brady to author a piece on writing lyrics for songs. The reason behind this request is that I find many students can get the fundamentals down to play a song (chord changes and singing while playing) but they have difficulty with writing their own lyrics. Whether it's lack of inspiration or just a fear of putting their feelings into words, many students would rather just play a song written by someone else.

So, Brady will post his ideas on writing lyrics over three segments - theory, inspiration and structure.  Check them out and try to write your own lyrics for a song. Brady is encouraging his readers to submit their lyrics so that we (the musicians) can create a song and record it.

So, if you're game, check out his articles and subscribe to his feed. Then, when he selects his top lyric, let's write some music!

Who wants to play?






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