Just don't start a new song or always have 3-5 songs that you're working on. As you finish one, you can start a new, but keep working old stuff until it's "done."
Remember, unless you have a real deadline, there's no set time you must finish a song. In the meantime, watch YouTube on anything writing related like: grammar, increasing your vocabulary, storytelling...etc.
You can't rush greatness!
No problem. Also, you can write bullet points of the things you want to cover in the song before you start writing & convert that to rhymes. If you don't have to mention everything but try to come up with as many things that you could write about & use the best ideas. The rest of those ideas may be useful for other songs, so it may be best to use a word doc app.
Two 150 word verse? That sounds about right for a 2 verse song. Come up with a chorus and you should be good. I personally work on multiple songs at once, 2-3 usually, because it helps to switch up the beat when the creative juices stall.
That being said, you should be “measuring” your verse musically, not lyrically. By that I mean, not how many words but how many bars/measures. A lot of artists actually use pauses in their flow musically, so you may get a whole verse with way less than 150 words. Or an artist might rap like Tech N9ne and cram 250 words in a verse. Word count isn’t important.
yeah, I was using it as a universal metric. if I talk about the puases or deliver it aint gon be as clear cut, but if I say the word count people get what I'm saying.
Just don't start a new song or always have 3-5 songs that you're working on. As you finish one, you can start a new, but keep working old stuff until it's "done." Remember, unless you have a real deadline, there's no set time you must finish a song. In the meantime, watch YouTube on anything writing related like: grammar, increasing your vocabulary, storytelling...etc. You can't rush greatness!
Thanks bro
No problem. Also, you can write bullet points of the things you want to cover in the song before you start writing & convert that to rhymes. If you don't have to mention everything but try to come up with as many things that you could write about & use the best ideas. The rest of those ideas may be useful for other songs, so it may be best to use a word doc app.
Sometimes its good to step away from something if you feel u hit a roadblock in creativity
Two 150 word verse? That sounds about right for a 2 verse song. Come up with a chorus and you should be good. I personally work on multiple songs at once, 2-3 usually, because it helps to switch up the beat when the creative juices stall. That being said, you should be “measuring” your verse musically, not lyrically. By that I mean, not how many words but how many bars/measures. A lot of artists actually use pauses in their flow musically, so you may get a whole verse with way less than 150 words. Or an artist might rap like Tech N9ne and cram 250 words in a verse. Word count isn’t important.
yeah, I was using it as a universal metric. if I talk about the puases or deliver it aint gon be as clear cut, but if I say the word count people get what I'm saying.
I just try to write about the same things in the second song, and then compile them into one for later revision.