30 August 2009

1-year Anniversary Celebratory Post (okay, so a little late...)

Fun fact: "girl/world" is the most common rhyming couple in songwriting (in my experience).

So I thought that to acknowledge that great length of time I would show you how I wrote some of my songs, so that you can see the [non-] "genius at work."

The first is for a song that I wrote way back when (March 2007) and was the first song I wrote that rhymed and made sense. In essence, it was my first real song. I haven't posted it here yet, but I will. It's called "Snow White":
(first page) (second page)
The first half of the second page is the chorus of a song I wrote for my friend when she was feeling down. You can see how my handwriting changed from that chorus (which I had written earlier) to "Snow White."
How about I do a song that I've posted here? It's "The Words Were Mine":

If you remember back to my introduction to the song, you'll recall that I mentioned that I essentially threw out "Good Luck Tonight" and made the new song out of it. Well, this is the page I did it on, and you can see that I left only a line here and there from the original. By the way, if you can read "Good Luck Tonight," let me know and I will personally commend you.
Well, that's it. Those are the two craziest ones. Somehow I thought it would be cooler. If there is a song that you would like to see how I wrote, please let me know and I'll do what I can to scan it and upload it. I mostly write in composition notebooks so that can be a tad more difficult, but I'll do what I can.

Look for a normal post later this afternoon.

Much love, and thank you for the musik!

NBK

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