How to fuse music theory with lyrics

Hey everyone! So today, I decided to give you guys some music advice. 

Before we get into any of that, let’s have our moment of silence.

At this point in time, I would like all of us to take a moment of silence and pray for all of the things in our lives. Pray to God to help us to become the musician that we want to become. 

Now back to the show

Music Theory

So there are a few general rules that everyone in pop music follows. And I know that this is music theory, but knowing these general rules will help us to write better music. 

1. Major means happy and minor means sad: When you talk about major or minor chords, scales, keys, it’s just talking about the general mood that, that particular key is going to have. 
2. Fast means aggressive and happy and slow means emotional and sad. When talking about tempos and speed of the notes being played, it will tell you more or less if it is going to be a happy or sad song because usually sad songs are slower and happy songs are faster. 
3. Simplicity is king. When you’re writing pop music, I know that the tendency for most musicians out there is to make things really complicated, but that’s just not the case for pop music. When you’re doing pop music, you should aim to be nice and simple. 
4. Start low in the scale when you’re doing the verses and go high in the chorus.
5. Repeating things and change coincide with each other. True enough, music is very repetitive, but there are going to be times where you’re going to have to get creative and change up something about the next chorus or verse just to keep the song alive. 

Lyrics

When writing lyrics, it’s been said that you can compare them to writing poems. I’ve also heard that you never compare a song to a poem. 

But I personally think that it’s okay to compare them to a poem.

With that in mind, here are some things to keep in mind when writing song lyrics.

1. Use analogies to your advantage. When writing lyrics, try and paint the picture of the scene which you are writing about. So using metaphors, similes, and extended metaphors will always work to your advantage. 
2. When you start out the verse, use telling language, then when you are actually in the verse, use metaphors and visual language to tell what’s going on. 
3. Use internal rhymes and regular rhymes. 
4. Try different rhythms and styles
5. Usually make sad lyrics for sad moods and tempos
6. Usually make happy songs for happy moods and lyrics

Now how to fuse this? 

Oftentimes when you’re writing lyrics, you’ll need to put stress and distress on certain words and phrases. And you do that by a few techniques. 

1. You can pause the music and sing the words for emphasis on those words.
2. You can play something minor while something sad is happening and vice versa for happy things. 
3. You can say things louder than the other words. 
4. You can also say things when the drums hit and that’s added emphasis on the parts that need emphasis

But also there are a few music theory things that you could do.

Remember how I said that minor things are sad and major things are happy? Well you can combine those two things and make something different. 

I usually make a major chord progression with a few minor chords and it sounds nostalgic to me. 

If you make a minor chord progression and add a major chord in there, it sounds bittersweet. 

Try it out sometime! It sounds really cool! 

But there are all sorts of cool things that you could do, so go out and try experimenting with your own songs and try and make songs that sound really cool!

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Thank you all for listening in on this blog post. 

German Gonzalez, signing out!