Airweavers wrote:J-HALEY wrote: i'll just see where the song takes me.
Same here. I've found that letting the song go where IT wants to ends up far better than trying to drive it where I want it to go. The latter is a big mistake. That'll make even what might have been a great song a mediocre or even a horrible one. Considering most songs even a good writer writes are usually mediocre, but not necessarily bad, think what trying to drive every song where you want it to go would do to the vast majority of them.
Can you say, "sh*t pile?"
Air, I think that both approaches are equally valid... For example, You remember the old classic, "Stairway to Heaven"? That song was described by Jimmy page as one of those nice ditties that organically unfolded into a great song .. Nobody forced it...it just sort of came about after many hours of playing around with it at the home of one the members...... Keep in mind, it had no deliberate agenda driving it...(other than it had to be musically sound and commercially viable). Now, there was another old Song , kind of classic in its own right : " Live and Let Die". That song was deliberate agenda, and purposely composed to portray an underlying spy drama. By design, it had to be delivered with the effect in mind...
In each case, the songs were creative and great in their own way... While they differed in approach and style, they did share some common attributes: They both told distinct stories, and they both followed standard formats. Pretty amazing how the boundaries of that frame work, lent to creative results.
