1. Love life, experience life, and be good at observing life

In daily life, you should see more, listen more, analyze more, expand your horizons, and increase your life accumulation. Not only should we be good at observing and analyzing various people and things, we should also have a deeper understanding of the beautiful nature - mountains, fields, seas, rivers, wind, flowers, snow, moon, etc.

Only in this way, when you want to write songs about related themes, your mind will not be empty and have no associations. Just imagine, if a composer has never seen a mountain, how can he write a song about mountain climbing? At most, he can only rely on indirect introductions from movies, TV shows or books, but he will never be able to understand the rhythm of walking while climbing, and the joyful mood after climbing to the top of the mountain.

2. You must have a certain knowledge of music theory

Songs are expressed through music, and music needs to be recorded in sheet music. Therefore, songwriters must have considerable knowledge of music theory, and young people should lay a good foundation in this area first.

Imagine that a good lyric touches you, and you really want to compose it into music. However, the song that comes to mind does not know how to express it in musical notation; or even though it is described in musical notation It’s written down, but it’s inaccurate, incomplete, and even far from your original intention. This is not a good way to write a song.

3. There must be a considerable literary foundation

Songs are a combination of music and lyrics. Therefore, the literary level of the songwriter will be directly related to the quality of song creation. We must love literature, care about literature, and constantly improve our own literary standards. For novels and reportages, we will continue to improve our literary standards. Great attention should be given to novels, reportage, essays, and especially poetry.

Song writers must have certain literary accomplishments, such as understanding of various poems, including genres, creations, and phonological characteristics. In this way, you can choose the best from a large number of colorful lyrics to compose music, and you can even write the lyrics yourself.

Extended information:

The words in songs are developed from five-character poems, seven-character poems and folk songs. They were formed in the Tang Dynasty and became popular in the Song Dynasty. It is a kind of lyric poetry. The style is a Yuefu poem that can be sung to the tune. Its strict rhythm and various formal characteristics are all determined by the requirements of music rhythm and phrase length. Ci is different from poetry. It requires "the tone has definite sentences, the sentences have definite characters, and the words have definite tones."

The rhyme position and each word tone have a certain pattern. Poems are basically even-line rhymes, and the rhyme position of the words is determined by the degree of music, that is, the pause in music. The musical rhythm of each word tone is different, and the rhyme is also different.

In terms of sentence length, although poems have long and short sentences, five-character and seven-character sentences are the basic sentence patterns, while lyrics use a large number of long and short sentences in order to better fit the rhythm of the music. Furthermore, when composing lyrics, one must carefully examine the pronunciation and use of words, and match the tones of the words with the tones of the music score in order to achieve harmony and good listening.