Song writing

The kind of music that I enjoy most isn't necessarily tied to any specific genre, though I do have my preferences. Rather, my favorite kind of music is the kind that tells a story - where each verse is progressively pushing a narrative forward to reach a conclusion at the end. It's not just about a topic, where each verse is more or less about the same thing, but rather a consecutive telling of events. Talking about the way things have happened, or what a person's goals for the future are. Expressing experiences rather than ideals. That's the kind of music that I get into.

You might notice that this is fairly consistent with the way that I think about movies, tv shows, games, and books. It's almost like I'm a writer or something. And because I have experience with music, both as a singer and a guitarist, and I recognize this similarity in thought, it has crossed my mind to try my hand at writing songs. And a few times, I have acted upon that idea, and seen first hand what it is like to attempt writing music.

Let me begin by saying, whatever your opinion of my ability at writing fiction, my skill at writing music is worse. I'm not good at making rhymes, choosing strange words to end lines with, and not overly wanting to go back and change them later on to make for easier rhyming. My pacing of lines is a bit off, wanting to fit more words in a single line than I reasonably should, or having entirely too few syllables. While I can recognize terrible cadence in music, I can't seem to adapt for it in my own music.

It's been several years since the last time I attempted to write any music, or even attempted to recall what I had previously written, so while I can't really recall how any of them went, I can say with full certainty that they weren't any good. I mean, maybe for who I was at the time they were alright, but looking back, it's clear that it was written by an early teenager. An early teenager who thinks he's way cooler and deeper than he actually is.

But I still want think about it all the time and consider doing it in the future. Unfortunately that doesn't require getting better at music again in some way, which I have been seriously lacking in for a long time. And even aside from that, I'm not entirely sure what kind of songs I would write. My first instinct is to follow with what I was writing when I was younger, which is extremely cheesy love songs, because that's just the kind of person I am. But hopefully this time they won't be terrible.