Songwriting Options

[Gabriel Leopardi]

Today I'd like to share some songwriting experiences as some of you suggested HERE..

Have you heard the song LOOP by Ramen, my band?

I want to share with you some pre demos and details on how we get the final version.

At the beginning of this year, I was very into Rage Against The Machine and I was thinking that it would be great to have a song with that feel but that had a more modern production. That's this riff came to my mind so I've recorded it with my phone:

 Riff_Demo.mp4 ( 108.11K ) Number of downloads: 99


That riff was simple but very promising. I've decided to give it a full song structure, trying to keep the same riff for most of the parts, or at least for intro, verse and chords, as it happens with many hip hop songs (and also RATM ones).

I've used cubase to program midi, record guitars and base. This is what I've got:

 Ramen_pre_idea_4.mp3 ( 3.87MB ) Number of downloads: 94


After that, I've worked on some melodies. As I always do, I've sung in a non existing language but that sound close to English..

 Ramen_pre_idea_4_con_voz_refe.mp3 ( 3.87MB ) Number of downloads: 86


That was the demo that I've shared with the rest of the band. They loved the tune so we worked on arrangements, lyrics, recorded, produced and this is what we finally got:



Translated version: https://youtu.be/3KCIr1gvMMs


What do you think? Do you have any questions? Do you work your songs in a similar way?

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This post has been edited by Gabriel Leopardi: Aug 11 2020, 02:12 PM