[Hilch]

This question is bugging me ..

Lets just say I have written a song with terrific lyrics to a tune in my head { big hypothetical ask } ..

How do I get this guitar so make that tune that I want ?

I have tried the following methods ..

1 / strum a chord and sing a line , so every new line gets one srum

2 / Make up a sime chord progression and a simple strum pattern then add like a palm muteing to give it a bit of character ..

But I never find that tune I am looking for ..

Any help would be great

Trev...

[Lcjones]

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Hey Trev,

Hope you don't mind me chiming in here.

Your question is not one that can be answered by anyone except you. There are many who can put music to your lyrics and they may come close. But really, the melody is in you. As hokey or silly as that may sound, it's in you and you just have to dig for it.

I totally understand where you are coming from. I have lyric that I wrote in '97 or '98 that has torn me up because I have yet to bring that melody I hear in my head to the strings of my guitar. It's a great lyric. It's actually disconcerting to me. Drives me crazy. Yet, every couple of months over the last nine or ten years, I haul it out and have a go at it and I come up short every time.

Matter of fact I'll post the lyrics here. Maybe that will shake something loose. Seems to have worked on another lyric from days gone by.

Anyway. Don't despair. Sooner or later that melody will show it's face.

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LC

[Hilch]

Thanks LC

I was starting to think it was just me and maybe I shouldn't write if I can't the tune from head to guitar ...

I have read somewhere that if one starts just to play a standard 12 bar blues progression this might aide the tune from head to guitar so far for the past few months it hasn't helped me any ...

Thanks again

Trev..

[Lcjones]

Hahaha,

12 bar blues don't hurt a thing.

ack...... if you saw the "mylyrics" directory on my hard drive...well, that brick we talk about would be excreted. I've got a ton of lyrics all dressed up and no where to go.

Join the writers club, dude.

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[eddiez152]

Now that was very well put.
Join the writers club, dude and the truth

[Hilch]

Where do I sign

[knight46]

Hilch,
Looking at some of the lyrics you have posted you are already a member.