#writinglyrics

It has been a little over three months since my last post. In that time I’ve grown in bounds. 

Here are a few things I’ve accomplished:

I started a shoe brand, and have begun developing a clothing line to complement it! While it hasn’t skyrocketed yet, I have goals, and begun the process of growing them. The shoe brand and clothing line are two separate entities and I will grow them as such, but I hope to have a website to speak on soon.

I will be premiering my Youtube either this week or the next, and have many videos lined up with a variety of topics to come. Even though I’m starting with very few subscribers, I find it motivates me a lot, and realize I’m quite the optimist! Definitely not letting anything intimidate me.

Finally, I have been honing my musical craft with the help of an amazing producer! Writing is difficult, but not impossible I have discovered. Thank goodness for a large vocabulary lol.

Everything I touch sparkles right now, but this sparkle will become full blown sunbeams as time passes. I’m honing my crafts, and it will be a long journey, but I’m happy to say the journey has begun.

To anyone who reads this, I love you, and hope to inspire you as much as I’ve inspired myself.

The Seikilos Epitaph is considered the oldest surviving example of a musical composition in the world. It was written in ancient Greek musical notation. It sounds like chanting and whistling. It’s pretty creepy sounding. Africa is widely considered by the scientific community to be the birth place of civilization (prior to humanity dispersing around the world) and its logical to conclude music was invented there. Music scholars call this “prehistoric music”. The African drums, chanting, and melody lines are still played and sung in some tribes today – music’s longevity can be absolutely amazing! On another continent, Chinese classical music is referred to as “court music”. Its history stretches over 3.000 years! It has its own unique systems of musical notation.

Music has changed a lot over those thousands of years and has been refined in to specific groups (depending on the type of sound) called “genres”. The dictionary defines the word genre as... Genre – noun – a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

We could go way back and get pretty descriptive about musical genres, but for the purposes of this blog we’ll start with American music in the 1800’s to give respect where respect is due. I’m not a historian, but I do know about genres and what decades had/has the most popular ones. After extensive research over the years on what music came from where (the 1800’s on) the genres seem to have had quite a journey of growth. Opera and classical was very popular before the 1800’s due to European influence. So, people gravitated to the blues when the blues genre started in the late 1800’s in the United States (some say much earlier – I tend to agree). It started with roots in spiritual “work songs” (slave songs in the plantation fields). “Jazz” was born out of blues and “swing” music (the 1930’s “flapper” era) was born out jazz. It’s hard to pinpoint when all of this happened because historians were not paying close enough attention and keeping detailed records. It evolved naturally. That’s the coolest thing about music to me. It’s emotional ebb and flow has happen in the past, happens today in the present, and will happen tomorrow and in the future. Music is alive and will always be changing!

This is another amazing practice for you to improve your creative writing!

With the words that you found on the video, try to create a song, it should be no longer than 4 paragraphs (four lines each) and consider the following tips:

1° Don’t rhyme too much, it is better to use rhyming in a subtle way so that it does not detract from the main message of the song.

2° The lyrics of the song should tell a kind of story, you will have to develop a coherent plot (try to answer yourself what you want your listeners to feel after listening to the song).

3° Write in a special way to warm up your listeners and demonstrate your own style; otherwise, you may lose your audience or not stand out from the others.

4° Last but not least, a “Hook” is also important when writing a song, it should be at the beginning to catch your listeners’ attention (30 seconds or so).

“Come what may, I will find my way.

Through everything I’ve been through, more than I can say.

And I just want to know, are you okay?

Does the thoughts run through you mind too, while you have been away.