Aug 05
John Mayer on Songwriting
I tried not to post this video (largely because of Mayer’s smug comment at the end) but it stuck with me. See how John writes a new song by taking three other popular melodies and riffing on the:
That’s pretty much how I write music – start playing a rhythm\chord progression and sing some vowel sounds over them until words emerge. Hope that the lyrics eventually make sense. That’s also why I’m having a tough time bringing three new songs to closure – they’re lyrics only and no melody is presenting itself. I’ll figure it out eventually, I guess…
