Music - Lyrics vs. accompaniment?
604849
Its all good.  Its whatever moves you emotionally.  I've been moved my poetry alone.  There are many instrumental songs that are equally moving and of course if you put them together that can work well too.\n\nIts like trying to say which colour is better for painting, red or blue?  Its in how you use them.
676768
Okay my friend, I'm going to explain counterpoint to you in layman's terms. It's really not that hard of a subject. Counterpoint is simply two different and completey seperate things happening at the same time to make ONE SONG! It's most common application is in musical theater, where two different characters are singing two different things on top of each other in the same song. It's still one song, it's not harmony, but it mixes to make one song. Now when it comes to bass lines...The bassist along with the drummer is the rythm section of the band. But say you had two bassists, Getty Lee playing one riff and Victor Wooten playing another. They are playing two different rythms and two different melodies, but they both mesh them into one big rythm. Get it? Ever been to a drum circle? Where everyone's playing different beats but it all meshes, in a way that is counterpoint. However the more accepted defination includes both rythm and melody. So counterpoint on a bass line is mainly used in the studio where a bassist can go back and listen to the recording of what he just played and then play something completely different to complement the original riff! Okay... nuff said.
700074
go 2 lyrics.com or jus do it the old fashion way and write down the words as u listen
550998
Go to http://lyricsmansion.com\nWorks great for me.
1101084
an excellent way to learn anything is to study how a master does it.\n\nsince you say 'lyrics' i assume you mean things for singing.\n\nlook at placebo, the shins, the stereophonics (their stuff from a few years ago at least) ...\n\nand some of the older classics.
758762
depends on what kinda music your into...\n\ntry
841393
well, if the words to the song were about a man instead, would it be considered sexist?\n\ni think the issue of whatever gender a song lyric is addressed to does not matter, its about a certain type of person, rather than sex isnt it?
754123
You write a poem or a short story about what you know, be it, girls, love, cars, tools, games etc. Once you get the story/poem right, it's time to play with the music. Good luck I hope you write a hit song. Listen to some good tunes and pay close attention to the words. You will notice most have the same words over and over though out the song.
837414
For lyrics, here's how I do it.  I take a chunk of the lyrics and put them in quotes in Yahoo.  Then OUTSIDE the quotes I type the word LYRICS.\n\nSo if I wanted lyrics for "Alcohol" by Brad Paisley, I might type:   "and get you fired from work" lyrics\n\nPeople are surprised when they ask for song lyrics and I can find them with just a chunk like that.
692941
google the song and put "lyrics"
1068986
The sound, most definitely! Lyrics come second. If it doesn't sound good - I don't care about the lyrics.
230709
songs don't have to have meaning. they're just artistic expression. live it, breath it, love it.
689327
give me a few of the lyrics
576195
I have learned to avoid the repetition of the same word in a sentence of English at school. "know" and "music" are duplicated in the sentences you wrote. You should say\n\nKevin knows much more about music than I.\nKevin knows music more than I.\n\nBut I think both are grammatically correct.
437303
http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/album/33846.html
937667
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/
1161169
I can't answer that for any instrumental musician, but I've written songs (with words) and of course you're restricted only by your subject. With instrumentsls, you're have an open field. You can name your song anything you want. I think that would be much easier. I'm thinking of writing instrumentals in the near future, and if I do, I'm looking forward to naming them. You aren't restricted by your subject. Yiu can name a song, "Charlene" for no other reason than you like the name. Or, "Spirit of the Valley", for no apparent reason other than it sounds nice.