![]() “Once I have one or two phrases, it all starts to take on some kind of meaning, and then I start refining.”įor hip hop trio Hilltop Hoods, getting a good beat is the first step to a good song. “I'll be singing gibberish for ages, before I decipher something meaningful from the garble,” he says. Josh Pyke follows a similar process and lets the lyrics come later. Likewise, Pnau’s Peter Mayes says there’s “no rules” for songwriting, although he reveals he usually tries to nail the song’s melody and chord structure first. For her, “sometimes it’s the beat, sometimes it’s a comment that I overhear on the street that becomes a lyric, or other times I write the full melody of a song in my head.” Singer Sally Seltmann suggests going with “whatever comes naturally”. It all comes down to the initial idea, and that could be a melody, riff, groove, title, chorus, lyric or even one word. The good news (and the bad news) is there’s no right or wrong place to start a song. It goes without saying that if you want to play or record music, you're probably going to need some songs.Īfter covering all your favourite artists’ songs, no doubt you’re ready to write your own - but where to start? triple j Unearthed caught up with artists like The Grates, Children Collide, and Gotye to try to pin down the mysterious craft of songwriting.
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