How John Lennon Writes A Song Versus How Elton John Does It
Music is there to comfort us whether it’s top-charting sugarcoated pop ballads or experimental industrial screaming trapcore. It doesn’t matter how simple and bright or odd and complex the sounds are as long as they take our attention and soundtrack our lives.
While there are a number of genres growing exponentially, they all adhere at least somewhat to the same ruleset of music theory.
On paper, all of the music outside of the added distortion, delays, reverb, and wub wubs are just notes locked inside of barlines.
Writing a full song involves combining rhythm, melody, chord progressions, and harmony to create a colorful audible journey. Depending on whatever is emphasized the most you may feel obligated to tap your feet or cry about your ex. Or both.
Another important dimension of the music is lyrics. It goes without saying that there can be music without lyrics. However, lyrics act to grab us and immerse us further into the music. It allows us to sing along in the car, in the shower, and embarrassingly enough at karaoke night.
It fills Instagram captions whenever a person lacks originality.
Lyrics cater to the part of our mind that loves to process stories and act astonished at the poetic stringing of words and…
