The following are several situations and solutions for your reference: 1. People who like singing often hum tunes to themselves, but they don’t understand the staff and can’t memorize the simplified musical notation. What should I do? What? How to record your creation? When you encounter this kind of problem, you must first prepare a recordable Walkman, or even other recording equipment. When you hum and sing, record it immediately, and then use various methods to find a person who can help you. The person who writes your music score (no matter it is a five-line score or a simplified notation), ask him to compile your creation into a complete record, and then find someone who can play an instrument (preferably a guitar, piano, electronic keyboard, etc., who can accompany you) (instrument), ask him to help you simply arrange the song, and then use recording equipment to record it (instrument with vocal), and make a simple demo (small sample). This way of writing songs can not only be saved, but may be used in the future It might even help you bring a fortune! 4. I write a very moving melody and I know how to play instruments, but I don’t know much about chords and I can’t make a good-sounding demo. What should I do? Many people encounter this situation. First of all, it’s a good thing to be able to make demos. Regardless of whether the chords sound good or not, whether they are varied or not, modulation skills, etc., make your original demo first. Arranging is another matter. Because when record companies select songs, although they will be affected by the arrangement, the impact is not big, because according to their professional judgment, good-sounding melodies can be arranged to add points. Therefore, being able to write good melodies is the most important thing. If you want to learn how to use special chords, the best suggestion is to buy a book on harmony. Such progress is incredible! 5. I can arrange music and know how to use chords, but the melodies I write are often bland and meaningless. How can I write a song that is good-looking and "sellable"? This situation often happens to friends in the so-called "professional classes". In this case, the individual must sing often and sing songs that he thinks are good. If he sings more, he will naturally be able to compose more beautiful melodies. . Of course, the true release of one's feelings is the most direct source of moving songs!! Now let's start our stuff, you need to use a pen and paper to write down something. Before learning theory and experience, you should learn to use various chord progressions with ease. A and D (people like Springsteen and Bob Dylan use them a lot. For example, in the famous song (A)Born in the (D)U.S.(A) A). Add G and mix it up. You can get more than 70% of the classic pop, rock and folk songs! ! Don’t believe me? Try it! ! ! Other compositing tasks are equally simple. I myself have been abusing chords like Am--G or A--G for many years. Don't ask me about theory before I get started, that's not my specialty. Read David Hodge's excellent column: "A" Before "E" (Except After "C"). David will explain it in detail. Start by playing around the major chords (A-B-C-D-E-F-G, don't use minor chords or anything) and feel them. Open chords and minor chords have completely different feelings. Minor chords have a melancholic feel, and they sound like there are many tragic love stories in them! Now play a minor key, do you feel the difference? Now play an A and then an Am and notice the difference. Then after playing the G, come the Am, playing it in different ways. Play around for a while and then find a tight and fast pattern. See how many different patterns you can find on these two chords. Each pattern could be a song. Now you can play only the pattern you like best. Then write some sentences on the paper with a pen. Don't go beyond your capabilities, just write down the things that often come to your mind. Subconscious things will become what you want, and the possibility of success or failure lies in you having the same feeling as the pattern you like. Then you have to play the pattern you like over and over again until you feel comfortable, and then sing the sentence you wrote. Yes, everyone can sing, and equally not everyone can sing well, but never mind that. If your sentence has one or two special syllables, you will need to make one or two adjustments to your pattern accordingly.
Or you can take a word out of a sentence or replace a long word with a short one. (There's a lot you can do, but we're keeping it simple here). If your sentence misses a syllable, lengthen one of the words by a beat. Now let’s write another sentence. Although it does not need to have anything to do with the beginning, sometimes it may. If it has nothing to do with your first part, you have to do something special to connect them. You have to memorize the number of syllables in the pattern you picked (these are actually more troublesome than the previous part, but keep it simple at this point.) Then, don't rack your brain and just go with what feels like it. If you really can't think of anything to write, just add something to the sentence you wrote earlier. Now it's time to connect the two paragraphs. I suggest you add two more paragraphs. Then it comes to your finished work. Okay, now you have 4 songs in Am--G mode. This is simply poetry! Let's try to start another one. It’s still 4 sections! ...Don't write false things! ! How does it sound? Maybe I missed something in between paragraphs. Then add a D between them and connect them through the previous pattern. Now you can play the modified thing again. Okay, let's write the chords. Let's try using the C--G pattern. Replace the ones you had earlier and think of this as a chord that you'll use as the "climax" of the song. What happened to what you wrote about earlier? How do they make you feel? Let these verses come to life! Have you ever thought about this? What are your thoughts on these issues? After writing the first paragraph, are you ready for the second paragraph? Try using the F--G pattern instead. When writing the third paragraph, return to C--G mode. The next fourth paragraph will be important. If you don't make some changes here, you're going to be playing these chords forever. Your audience will fall asleep too. It is always in F--G mode, but when it encounters G again, hang it there. Just like your phrase, it will end on G again. In other words, you hang the entire song there. Based on the above points you can put the guitar down. But whether you feel comfortable or not, go on and write another sentence. Now you follow this rule to write: first paragraph, second paragraph, chord, third paragraph, chord. Then play the whole song. Voila, you have a complete song! A simple song, but a song nonetheless. Don't worry, the key is that this is not your limit. All that's left is the song title. I don’t recommend that you use simple words to name your songs, you can read through the lyrics you have written and you will find a few words that suddenly jump out! Use this as your song title. Finally, do you feel that writing songs has become very easy? I hope to hear your stuff and see your changes. You might want to change some chords, throw something out or add something. Try different things and you will improve. Of course don't take away important parts of the song or add unnecessary stuff to it. In addition: 1. First of all, most songs are written after getting the lyrics. Therefore, it is crucial to study the artistic conception of the lyrics first. Some people often fail, such as "June Rain". The melody and lyrics are extremely inconsistent. 2. After studying the lyrics, don’t be too busy trying to spell out the chords. Memorize the words, and when you are inspired, you can even write several versions of music with one word. 3. When you feel inspired, hum a whole paragraph based on a melody. Because if it is always intermittent, it will make a song feel incoherent. And be sure to memorize it, as you may only think of a certain melody once in your life. When memorizing the melody, never follow the pitch relationship of the notes. If so, when you think of it next time, you will remember the pitch relationship but will definitely forget the interval relationship. Memorizing the melody only requires repeating it in your head for a long time. Just like me, I was often scolded by the teacher just for one or two lines of music in class, or I didn't listen to the class and couldn't do my homework, so I had to do it again! But it's still worth it. 4. When the melody is all composed, plan the structure of the entire song. Or interspersed with some RAP, such as those in the middle of "Hair Like Snow". Structure sometimes plays a big role too. 5. Arrangement (accompaniment), which requires some knowledge of chords. This is the only step in the production of a song that requires the use of chords. If it is a piano accompaniment, usually the right hand is played first, and then the left hand is arranged based on the right hand. Don't stupidly make up some four-part combination. If it's a guitar or the like, it's relatively simple. Just figure out the progression of the chords and it's basically OK. The chords should be in harmony with the main melody and the pitch of your own voice.
If there are multiple instruments, chords are used more. If you want to find a special and outstanding feeling in the ordinary, it depends on your personal skills and musical accomplishment. As for the detailed issue of chords, it is difficult to explain in one sentence, and I will talk about it later. 6. Harmony, harmony actually plays a role in setting off the main melody. It should be noted that general harmonies sound very ethereal to me. No, no, there are many harmony parts at the end where two voices are obviously singing, such as "In the Name of the Father", "The Little Blacksmith of Milan" and so on. 7. When you are almost ready, it is time to record. An ordinary recorder will definitely not work.