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6.18am
1 November 2012
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I wrote two songs during this past spring I’m really happy about.
This summer, I’ve been preoccupied with doing versions of other people’s songs — first “Farolito” by the Mexican songwriter Augustin Lara (1900-1970), then the old Cuban standard “Guantanamera”, then that popular song from the 1940s “Mairzy Doats”, then that old blues song “Lazybones” from the 1930s (popularized by Leon Redbone), and finally these days Donovan’s “First There is a Mountain”. Whenever I’m in the process of learning the song and putting my own little touches to it, the song is running in my head throughout the day, like a loop.
Faded flowers, wait in a jar, till the evening is complete... complete... complete... complete...
1.26pm
18 March 2013
Offline I struggle writing songs…well the lyrics anyway. The music just comes to me.
7.17pm
1 November 2012
Offline Lyrics are harder I think, if you have high standards for “meaning” and “significance” and to the degree that your locutions are conventional and not avante-garde.
One of the songs I wrote this last spring was singularly challenging in that it had an extraordinarily high number of syllables per line — so many that I still run out of breath when I try to sing it!
One part has this syllable pattern (and it’s repeated another time in the song) sung fairly fast tempo with very little time to breathe in between syllables:
4
2
2
5
5
4
4
4
6
6
7
5
7
6
7.
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8.54pm
6 December 2012
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When I try to write songs, I can write okay music on the piano, meaning not anywhere close to good. And when I try to write lyrics, I think they’re great when I’m writing them, and when I wake up the next day and say them to myself, I think, “These are the dumbest lyrics I’ve ever written.”
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3.28am
5 November 2011
Offline Egroeg Evoli said
And when I try to write lyrics, I think they’re great when I’m writing them, and when I wake up the next day and say them to myself, I think, “These are the dumbest lyrics I’ve ever written.”
This is how I am with basically everything I ever do. If you don’t let yourself fail, though, you’ll never get better. I used to be that way with writing papers; if it wasnt’t perfect I would just give up and restart. What you have to do instead is think about how you could do better, and don’t have too high of expectations at first.
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5.17am
14 December 2012
Offline Sounds like a great idea! I play guitar and bass (mostly bass now), so I could toss some lines in and get some bass going.
"I'd tell her I love her, but she'd only reject me in the end and I'd be frustrated. That's why I play guitar; it's my active compensatory factor" -Ringo said something like this once, I changed it up a bit.
6.50am
29 August 2013
Offline I can play the guitar, but I can’t write to save my life! I’ve got chord progressions together, lyrics, a few licks and solos, but I just can’t seem to fit them together and when I do, they sound absolute carp! So if there’s a secret Beatle method of writing songs available somewhere on teh interwebs, I’m willing to have a go!
"White Album - My joint-fave Beatles album along with Revolver. They show the two sides of Beatles. Revolver's very controlled - even though it's also very innovative. The White Album's playful and almost ramshackle. It's like a scrapbook kept by a genius. Fantastic stuff."
4.16pm
5 November 2011
Offline EDSLocklear said
Sounds like a great idea! I play guitar and bass (mostly bass now), so I could toss some lines in and get some bass going.
Welcome back! I don’t think I’ve seen you on for months.
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4.19pm
6 December 2012
Offline unknown said
EDSLocklear said
Sounds like a great idea! I play guitar and bass (mostly bass now), so I could toss some lines in and get some bass going.Welcome back! I don’t think I’ve seen you on for months.
I was going to say that… 
Anyway, welcome back, EDSLocklear! Nice to see you again. 
Also known as Egg-Rock, Egg-Roll, E-George, Eggy, Ravioli, Eggroll Eggrolli...
~witty quote~
2.07am
14 December 2012
Offline Thanks! I’ve had a pretty busy summer, but somehow I’m finding time to get back online during the school year!
"I'd tell her I love her, but she'd only reject me in the end and I'd be frustrated. That's why I play guitar; it's my active compensatory factor" -Ringo said something like this once, I changed it up a bit.
5.05am
7 February 2014
Offline I’ve had a go. Tell me what you think. Does it have potential?
Verse 1
If you’re a Beatles fan you might
want to visit the beatlesbible site
You’ll find info you never knew
And can join the forum too
You can say which tracks give you delight
And which you think are total shite
Ask if Paul was right about JFK
And find out who thinks John was gay
Chorus
It’s the worlds best website about the worlds best band
It’s so marvellous you’ll feel you’re in Pepperland
So dont be a fool like The Fool On The Hill
Visit beatlesbible it’s such a thrill
beatlesbible.com You’ll have a ball
A splendid time is guaranteed for all
Verse 2
Register and have your say
On the hot topic of the day
Is Mr Moonlight underrated?
Does Yoko deserve to be so hated?
The forum members are really nice
So join today – don’t think twice
His username I cannot say
But Ringo’s on there everyday
5.16am
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20 August 2013
Offline ^Stunning, tulane, absolutely stunning. I’ve bookmarked this for many readings.
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6.21am
10 November 2009
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Last year, in a period of around two-to three months (Late August to Late October) I wrote around 12 songs (but only half of them have a music pattern in mind), and I am kind of proud with some of them (my first one in particular).
Even so, I am kind of shy of singing them (even if I am studying music and I am in a chorus).
Also, ironically, much of my inspiration were Queen & Beach Boys songs, maybe The Beatles will give me an inspiration for future songs! 
P.S. This is post #150! 
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10.13am
7 February 2014
Offline Ahhh Girl said
^Stunning, tulane, absolutely stunning. I’ve bookmarked this for many readings.
Appreciate the compliment. I’m glad you like it.
4.02pm
2 April 2014
Offline I’d love to! I’ve learnt a lot about songwriting from listening to the Beatles, like common rhymes, common verse structures and common chord progressions. I write songs fairly often, although a lot of the time I get creative block. I’d love to help.
1.33pm
28 May 2014
Offline I want to create a project that has everybody’s input if they want. I want to see if Fab Forum users can create extra lyrics for “I Am The Walrus “. Everybody can contribute as long as:
a. The words are just nonsense
b. It follows the rhyme and word structure of the original song
I call it “The Previously Unknown ‘I Am The Walrus ‘ Lyrics Project”.
I want to have a devoted thread to the project but I don’t know where I’d put it. Does anybody know where I should put the thread? or more importantly, does anybody have a contribution?
Note by Ahhh Girl 18 June 2014: This post was moved here from the Impossible to Derail thread.
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2.09pm
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1 May 2011
Offline The difficulty would be that whilst John’s lyrics for IATW, and all of his other nonsensical writings, looks like gobbledegook nonsense of the highest order its very difficult to actually write as there is a very sharp mind behind it all. Anyone can come out with garbage gibberish of the highest order, making it of interest, funny and actually quite clever is where it gets tough. Anyone can throw out random words and phrases, very few people could have gotten close to writing ‘I Am The Walrus ‘, ‘Good Dog Nigel’ or ‘We Must Not Forget The General Erection’.
I am interested however to see if folk here can get close to what John wrote – and i think John would be interested too.
No idea where to put it. Games, songs or Pimp Your Own Stuff but it doesnt neatly fit into any of those. Maybe Joe could create a sub-forum in PYOS (can you create a sub-sub-forum?) for Beatle Bible projects but the question is will any of these projects last thru to completion before folk wander off due to outside commitments, lack of interest, and/or lack of commitment and input from others.
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