I know that in order to help write a guitar solo you use scales,what about when you've written a song and need to match chords with the lyrics,is there a method of doing this?or is it just trial and error?because I find it so difficult
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Harro Mique
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Well a lot of it is trial and error but there are a few things you can do to help yourself. Once you've figured out the lyrics and have the melody going in your head, figure it out on the guitar. Once you do you'll see the scale that your melody is playing in. Then depending on what kind of music you are writing you can choose a chord progression and then play around changing the chords and the progression to fit your song. For example: I wrote a melody who's notes closely followed the A scale. Since it was a blues song I figured I'd use a 1-4-5 chord progressions. That was A-D-E. After playing around for a while I figured out where to ad in the 7s and maj7s. Hope this helps
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I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but correct me if I"m wrong, are you looking to match your lyrics up with chords so that you and write and sing a song. Are you wanting to sing it and play at the same time? I have always counted as I played. Just out patterns of numbers. Sing them and hum, moan, and whew! And soon a feeling of the song starts to come alive, then soon you'll be saying/singing actual words. Then you'll accidentally say something that sounds good, and you'll want to keep that line or two, or ten? Then use the music and the count and add more lyrics with the music you wrote. Thats if you want to improvise some lyrics and chords. Matching up music with existing words or coming up with lyrics for already written music can be tough. I find it easier to do it all at once. And you'll slowly change your lyics and music. Your songs will evolve into many differnt things. Always practice and learn therory and technique and practice, practice, and record your self. Listen, Learn, and Improve over time.
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