by bob_32_116 » Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:48 pm
I am quite sure this question is for Bob Lind, not me! However...
I don't know how Bob writes, but I am sure different songwriters have different ways of working. Some, like Elton John, always do the words first (or in his case, someone else supplies the lyrics); others start with the music and there are a few for whom the whole thing just comes together as one, not words or music written in isolation. Sometimes I think I can tell when the music was done first, because the words sound as though they have been crowded, stretched and squashed to fit the melody line;, they are not sung in the way in which you would speak the words without music.
I am quite sure this question is for Bob Lind, not me! However...
I don't know how Bob writes, but I am sure different songwriters have different ways of working. Some, like Elton John, always do the words first (or in his case, someone else supplies the lyrics); others start with the music and there are a few for whom the whole thing just comes together as one, not words or music written in isolation. Sometimes I think I can tell when the music was done first, because the words sound as though they have been crowded, stretched and squashed to fit the melody line;, they are not sung in the way in which you would speak the words without music.