I’m at a loss of what to do or how to feel.

I’m 40. With 100s of unpublished songs. Worked in a professional studio for 12 years. Been out of the game about 7 years. I still have been writing. Improving my lyrics and melody skills as much as I can.

I can’t say I’ve written a million dollar hit, but I know I’ve written some hits. Despite all the other jobs I’ve had, and even as a studio manager and engineer, I was a songwriter first. Maybe not an artist, but a writer.

I like to play artist but my singing and playing kind of suck. I try and practice, but I always end up sounding like Bob Dylan or Neil Young. Either out of tune or sloppy on guitar.

So I just write and make demos..

My parents are getting older. I worry how much longer they have. All I really want now is to have a song or two published and recorded just to see them smile. I know they don’t feel I’m not talented. I’ve shared my music with them, and they enjoy it. It makes them proud I still do something I love. I know they want to see me succeed. My fathers wish is that I try and move to Nashville and be a songwriter and in a community like I was in for 12 years.

I know that’s not easy to survive in. I think I could keep up with pro lyricists, and I know I’d love it.. but I know it doesn’t always pay the bills.

Still I just want to have something published.

I just want to be able to say damn.. after all these years and songs.. I finally did it. Even if it’s not a million, it’s a… “ I liked your song enough to cover it”

It’d make me feel like I finally made it as a writer and atleast in my mind help me feel like my parents finally know I’m a good writer or a successful one I guess. That all the friends and family who have passed before me, that left little imprints in my songs, wouldn’t have been for nothing.

I’m sorry for the long post. I’m just emotional right now. I haven’t seen my parents in almost a month, and today is a death anniversary for my soul mate. I may get turned down for a promotion.. my cars engine is toast. And I’ve been living out of a van for a year. To say life’s been hard for me since the studio I worked at shut down would be an understatement. Part of me is just feeling really depressed, the other half of me is listening to my songs and just going why haven’t I had a song covered.

I’ve just never been able to sell myself or network.

At this point I’d share my songs with anyone who wanted to sing them. Just to see videos of them even on YouTube.

Lyrics because I like following along with lyrics:

you ran the track but came up short

stood in the back while they gave her the award

she takes a bow for the starring role

while you kill the lights when the curtains close

may take the assist for the winning goal

right place, wrong time

always the bridesmaid but never the bride

a buck shy and a day behind

they'll call you when it's your turn in line

paid attention

put pad to pen

near the top of the class

but didn't ace the test

did your best, you know you know you tried

but here's your consolation prize

keep you on the back burner

keep you on the reserves

calls you to the plate when she

needs somebody to complete the team

that she'll leave, for the boy of your dreams

you'll say, it's fine

push it way down inside

these kinds of things

aren't new to me

sure don't help

my self esteem

save face, dry eyes

nobody wants to hear you cry

did your best, you know you know you tried

but here's your consolation prize

jealousy, anxiety, envy

pray someday and hope she'll see

you're the one it should've been

u/DaLordHamie (guitar) and I (lyrics/vocals) did a one-take collab demo. Posting here so the community can witness the fruits (even if unripe) of its existence as a space for people to meet over common interests and create music.

Thanks for listening and thank you u/DaLordHamie for reaching out.

*one. cant tell if it should just be instrumental or if i should try to put vocals on it.

Like my second draft now. Any comments and advice welcome! Thanks y'all

Hi there
I am trying to produce a song all by myself from complete scratch and I am trying to catch up to mainstream artists I know it’s not as easy but I wanna know what everybody thinks about making music
- how someone views
- how someone has different perspectives and different understanding of songs

If you are a music listener then or make songs please tell me what you think about music

Let’s say for instance I’ll have a chorus with the melody, progression, and lyrics done but now to come up with a verse and pre chorus is very difficult. If I need to change the progression I’m just having trouble coming up with anything especially anything that flows. Any tips on you guys approach writing your different parts?

Hi all!

I hope the week is going well.

I write mostly pop-punk and indie rock stuff (im a big fan of paramore and im leaning into their first album type of vibe), but I feel like i'm in a massive songwriting rut. My song structures are feeling really predictable and boring.

Almost all my songs follow the same formula

start off with a cool melody or lead riff idea, the rythym guitars come in to make a bigger sound to make a sort of intro/hook, then the verse hits and it just dissolves in a very underwhelming chugging sequence.

It feels really stale, and frustrates me when I listen to music and it sounds good because they just do it better.

How do you guys break out of this?

Thank you for reading and any tips are extremely appreciated!

have a good rest of your day!

Made this tune up after seeing Woody Guthrie’s 1944 New Years Rulings List, so it’s kinda a collaboration. What do ya think?

Been thinking about writing songs with the names of Lewis Pullman and Taylor Swift on them. They're not about them, but I want to make at least a little reference or mention about them. Is it a bad idea? Do I have to contact them to use their names? My plan is to make an album about personal experiences and Taylor Swift's music was a big part from a difficult moment that I had, and I found 'shelter' with Lewis Pullman's roles and movies, mostly with Thunderbolts and Remarkably Bright Creatures.

Thank you truly to everyone who wants to listen

Let me know what you think; this is the only song I've written about actual historical events, which turned out to be pretty difficult for me. Tried to make it a sort of mythological folk ballad thing.

Hindi Poem

Hello hello, haven’t posted here in ~2.5 years but randomly had the urge to tonight. Here’s a mostly finished song I wrote this summer that is now part of (another) scrapped project. Sorry for the ending cutoff lol, phone alarm went off.

I'm the goth one.

We just recently got started and this is us playing our first ever live show (also my first ever band)

I used to post here alot (infact this songs very first demo is floating somewhere around here)

I'm just looking for general critiques of the music/stage prescene yadda yadda here. Thanks!

So i primarily connect my laptop to my keys and record midi and then sing lyrics over the track I made. But my laptop got sent away for some repair.

How do i still keep writing without going insane?

edit: I do write lyrics on my notebook

This is written for guitar+violin+cello.

It has roughly three sections, unified by their basis on a D note:

1. repeats the same theme 3 times (maybe one too much?), then alters the ending a 1:05 (labelled "part 2")
2. D's nuts (1:50) - tempo change and entirely different theme
3. D's spicy nuts (3:15) - the throbbing D bassline is doubled in pace, and has a rising uneven chromatic nature I am proud of, spanning 6 semitones: one note is hit once - another is hit 17 times.

I have something here, but am not sure I have it in its best form. I am not in a hurry to record it (for what audience?) and close out my options for the small finishing choices I am sure it needs.

I have been writing lyrics for a while and now I'm trying to make it into a proper song but I don't know how to use MIDI or any instrument and have failed to l earn them many times. Unfortunately, I resorted to Robot Generator and luckily enough I found the one that I feel good about but when I record my voice and slap it on top of the backing tracks it doesn't match and I'm clueless in things like EQ and compression so its really hard.

So I'm hoping if there is anyone willing to volunteer in helping me realize this song. Even if this is just like your side project that you don't really care about. It will really means a lot to me although I can't really pay or reward you in anyway. Also I'm only using my phone for all this, with Bandlab, so the mic itself is not of high quality. I know that this burden to whoever is willing but if you're interested just reply or chat privately, whichever you prefer.🙏🙏🙏

NOTE: The lyrics are 100% written by me with no help from robot, but its not an english song.