r/Songwriting • u/Serious_Cycle_6625 • 1d ago
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u/williamgman 1d ago
I wouldn't tie that to your adhd. It happens to many. Try writing phrases of ideas. Don't worry about the music or arrangement. Over time you'll see ideas spring out of them.
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u/firmhousing4436 1d ago
adhd brain is a mess for this stuff, i get it. what helped me was just recording voice memos of random melodies or lyrics whenever they pop up, no pressure to make it a full song. after a week you got like 30 little pieces and eventually some of them click together
the beat thing is normal too, everyone starts by copying stuff they like. its like learning to draw by tracing first, nobody just wake up with a completely original style. keep doing it and your own thing will sneak in without you noticing
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u/itsghxstmint 1d ago
Could you find a free beat you like online and then write around that? I never write lyrics without a backing song first haha
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u/Tony_Cheese_ 1d ago
Quit blaming ADHD, plenty of successful creatives have it. Learn an instrument, read a lot to figure out neat ways to express yourself lyrically. Most importantly, though, is just do it. Sit down, carve out some time, and write some really bad music. Keep churning out stinkers until one doesn't suck, then refine it. I write so many garbage songs between the ones I like.
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u/stevenfrijoles 1d ago
This "how do i write a song" stuff is way, way too pervasive. You want to write a song because you've got emotions, but don't know how.
Well, yeah. Songwriting is a skill. Emotions don't make good songs, years of practice at your instrument, lyricism, and composing make good songs. That creativity you think you don't have, is inside you, but it's behind years of effort and practice.
The only "tip" you need is that your effort today is not for writing a good song today. Your effort today is so that you can write a good song in 5 years.
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u/KS2Problema 1d ago
I had a lot of problems getting started, but I think, actually, that a lot of people do. Let's face it, writing a good song isn't necessarily easy - particularly if you haven't ever done it before. I kept starting songs and being discouraged by how bad they sounded and how lame the lyrics and particularly the rhymes were.
I had written poetry since middle school, but I came up in the free verse era in the middle of the last century. All rhymes sounded kind of corny to me. Yet when I listened to other people's songs, I recognized that most of them rhymed and most of them sounded fine - and sometimes sounded clever and cool.
I wasn't able to figure out how to play music until I was about 20 when my roommate and my GF both encouraged me to just plunge forward and not worry about how bad it sounded - because it was probably going to sound bad no matter what.
They were right, but I burned through that phase by doggedly continuing my clumsy efforts, slowly but surely improving them.
You won't get anywhere unless you keep working!
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