I believe that there are still many little whites who want to learn lyrics and do not know where to start. Shunyu wrote a few words, and the rest except dry sitting, or dry sitting.
Imitate learning words written by others, as if you have learned some skill. But when I really started writing, it didn't go well.
Either the mind is full of thoughts and can't write, or the brain is like it's blocked, or it's written out and then read...
It doesn't matter, this article consults and summarizes the lyrics experience of many big guys, and an article solves your lyrics introduction.
Sort out the lyrics
If you want to write a poem, not to mention how to write it well, if you want to write it, of course, you must first have a theme~ ~
It may be an idea on your whim, or it may be a feeling of your life, and it is good that inspiration comes, but what if your mind is empty?
Here are two things that can help you:
(1) Learn to listen to people's conversations and feel life. Because for almost anything, if you can use your brain to dig a little bit, it can become a central idea.
For example, in the latest season of the "Longing for Life" variety show, Huang Lei, He Jiong, Zhang Yixing and others jointly created "Bragging Skin". It was because it was raining in that place that they could only stay in the house and brag about the words.
Although this is not a truly complete song, it can also provide a little idea for everyone.
Excerpt from "Bragging Skin"
(2) Prepare a small book or folder for writing songs. Use this to record some ideas that have room to play, something that inspires you to create. It's like a creator recording a melody in his head at any time.
Almost every creator will have this habit. When you need to use it, extract it from it.
When Deng Ziqi composed the song "Bubble", he saw bubbles blown out by others on the streets of the United States, and suddenly a few lyrics popped up in his mind and recorded them in a small book he carried with him.
Deng Ziqi "Bubble"
Therefore, the inspiration for creation can come from every part of life, it can be people, things, emotions, stories, attitudes, and so on.
Everything is describable.
Once the topic is decided, it's time to solve the problem of how we should unfold the description. Before that, we have 3 more questions that must be confirmed:
(1) Who is saying
(2) To whom to say
(3) Why say
For example, the song "Gulf of Alaska" is composed by Fidoor and Lee Corning.
Fidel's "Gulf of Alaska", lyrics by Fidel and Lee Corning
In this song lyrics, we can read that "I" is saying, saying to "Heaven."
Why? Because "I" hope that "Heaven" will bless "her" happiness.
By clarifying these three points, we can avoid confusion or unclear theme expression to a large extent when writing words.
After these three points have been confirmed, if you still have no idea of writing, these six "good friends" - "5W1H" (yes, the 5W1H that can be seen everywhere) may help you:
(1) Who characters
(2) What incident
(3) When time
(4) Where location
(5) Why cause
(6) How way/how
Tao Zhe "Find Yourself"
Tao Zhe's "Find Yourself" fully demonstrates these six points.
Of course, we don't have to use all six of these points in our lyrics. But when we have no clue, we can use these six points to help ourselves find some inspiration and find a direction that can be narrated.
The final form of the finished lyrics is that the singer needs to convey the content of the words to the audience in the form of singing.
Therefore, knowing these 4 identities can help you create a deeper emotional connection between the words you compose and the audience, so that they can be involved in the story of your words:
(1) Narrator (third-person narration) – "ta and ta"
The narrator can also be understood as the role of a bystander, belonging to the "God perspective", telling the story of "ta and ta".
Doggie叨叨《Real Life》
Like Doggie's work, in the above lyrics, he is telling the story of a teenager killed in order to stop school violence as a narrator.
This perspective is like looking at the panorama from a distance, others can know what they say and do, can travel through the past, live in the present, and even jump into the future.
Therefore, the "narrator" is also an objective identity, which can leave more room for the listener to think.
(2) First-person narration – "Me and Ta"
Using first-person narration is like you're expressing something more subjective and deep to your audience, expressing personal emotions that can have a deeper connection with your audience.
Jacky Cheung's "Distant Her", lyrics by Pan Yuanliang
Jacky Cheung's "Distant Her" tells the story of a couple who are first separated by two places, and then separated by yin and yang.
Can you feel what it would be like to replace the narrative in the words with "he and she"?
Obviously, this deep feeling of longing is difficult to resonate better with the audience. Most listeners will probably only realize that he really misses her in the story, and will not substitute for his own story.
What if it was replaced by "Me and You"?
In the story, due to the distance and the helplessness between yin and yang, is it also difficult to present?
(3) Second Person Perspective – "You and Ta"
Using a second-person perspective can enhance the intimacy of the listener. Resonant listeners will feel as if they are talking about themselves, secretly building a relationship with the song.
Jay Chou's "What a Man"
Jay Chou's "What a Man", although the word "you" actually refers to "myself", it can still make listeners with similar experiences have a strong sense of substitution, whether the audience is male or female.
(4) The most intimate perspective - "Me and you"
Usually this perspective is used to express one's emotions directly in the chest and directly.
It can be sweet:
Yu Jiayun "With You"
Like this.
It can also be very sad:
Lin Youjia's "Innocence and Evil", written by Huang Weiwen
Lyrics framework
After having a general idea of lyrics, there is still a point that cannot be ignored is the song's song structure. It is the basis for completing a word and the basis for a song.
It mainly contains the main song (Verse), chorus (Chorus), pre-chorus (Pre-chorus) and bridge (Bridge). The following takes Deng Ziqi's "Missing Good" as an example:
(1) Main song: Provide basic information for your song. It is mainly used to explain the basic storyline or general feelings, and provide a platform for the progress of the song.
In the main song, the difference between "you and me" is explained, paving the way for the theme of "missing it is also good".
(2) Chorus: It is the repetition of the central idea of the song. It is also usually a memory point in a song.
Highlighting the central idea of "missing out" in the chorus is also a memory point in this song.
(3) Pre-chorus: Mainly used to connect the main song and the chorus.
(4) Bridge: It can have the effect of sublimating emotions.
The framework for writing words is there, but what are the ways to sublimate the theme we want to express? Here I would like to introduce you to two simple and easy-to-understand methods:
(1) Development in time
Xu Fei's "Prose Poems Written by My Father", written by Dong Yufang
Xu Fei's "Prose Poems Written by My Father", in this lyric, in 1984 - tonight - tomorrow - decades later, using the timeline to progress the emotional layers.
From the things recorded in his father's diary, sublimated to the father's love like a mountain.
(2) The development of emotions
Eason Chan's "We", Ge Dawei lyrics
Eason Chan's "We", from the helplessness of "you" to the regret of "I", in the end only "we" without us are left.
Use rhyme feet skillfully
Simply put, it is to make our lyrics rhyme, and good rhyme can enhance the beauty of the lyrics and make the lyrics more catchy.
Here we combine the pronunciation characteristics of our Chinese to introduce you to some simple rhyming techniques:
Jay Chou's "Love Waste Wood"
For example, here the festival (ie) to the snow (ue); Snow (ue) and (uan) again. Although it is not the same rhyme, it is very smooth to put on a rhyme foot.
There are many similar rhymes, and you can summarize more in your daily life to help you create in the future.
What if you really can't find the right word to rhyme? The mood aid is your good helper~
Deng Ziqi "Countdown"
Jay Chou's "Say Good Happiness", Fang Wenshan lyrics
Did you get it?
Basic skills can be quickly learned, but to write words better, it must be rooted in continuous reading, accumulation, learning, and observation.
Nothing can ascend to the heavens in one step, and it is a good idea to do the basic skills in a down-to-earth manner.
So let's introduce you to the methods that you can usually learn to improve your lyrics skills on your own
Although poetry is different from lyrics, we can learn and analyze how poets write a poem, which may contain many metaphors, anthropomorphisms, exaggerations, comparisons and other expression techniques.
Or how the poems see things and think of people, how to describe scenes, how everything is potentially connected, and so on. Take this poem as an example:
Translation:
The poem is celebrated with peach blossoms and a hymn is sung for the bride.
With bright colors, it is intended to be joyful, with fruitful fruits, it is intended to wish for the prosperity of future generations, and with green leaves, it is intended to be harmonious for families.
Before studying the poem, can you think of the connection between the peach blossom and the bride?
You can learn how they describe people, things, things, and opinions; how to describe around the theme; how to make emotions and stories develop step by step; how to arrange the structure of the lyrics.
Here I recommend several famous lyricists: Huang Weiwen, Fang Wenshan, Tang Tian, Ruiye, Li Zongsheng, Luo Dayou and so on.
Huang Weiwen
Reading can help us maintain a sense of language, and while constantly expanding our own library, we can also strengthen our connection to things. If you don't read much, how can you spit out so many words?
There is not a great writer who does not read ten thousand books.
Fang Wenshan Studio
Lyrics are more about returning to life itself. Observe and feel all the details of life, it can be the pleasure brought to you by a breeze, the touch brought to you by a small action, and the feeling given to you in an instant.
These can be the material for your writing, and they can also bring more resonance to the audience.
In today's lyric writing, there are two creative directions. One is to write words "to please yourself" and the other is to write words "to please yourself + listeners". Simply put, it is non-market and marketization.
There is no good or bad distinction between these two directions, depending on whether you want to develop at will or whether you want to bring yourself income faster by writing lyrics.
In my opinion, the market-oriented creative direction is more like an additional writing skill—a writing technique that is more acceptable and resonant to the audience.
Because it pays more attention to the content expression of the lyrics, the emotional expression of the lyrics, and whether the temperament and beauty of the lyrics can be more understood and recognized by the listeners.
In the end, it is still necessary to express the emotions you want to express. When you are sitting uninspired, think about how the big guys write lyrics!
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