Songwriting advice needed!

[a.rodin]

I need advice on how to fomat a proper song. For example, I'd like to make my poems into songs. Thus, do I create a chorus from the poem, that repeats in the middle and then again in the end?
Maybe there is no actual format but is the repeat chorus thing a necessity?


n.b. Perhaps this is blasphemous, but I think Cristian should re-mix the new James Bond single by Madonna. Apparently, she's all about da techno.

[tsr_tomas]

so frankly what your saying is that you want to make Pop music... advice, listen to jacob hellman....

[piscaries]

it's pretty much all up to you. "proper" songs usually will have a pretty obvious verse and chorus and often times a bridge and they (usually) follow something like a verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus kind of pattern. but i don't think that the organization of it should really be a first concern. let your music fill in its own blanks. that's how you get the best results.

[tsr_tomas]

piscaries: Hey you !
you are that dude from Goonies, aren´t you ?
cooooool.

[darnymarfy]

'proper song'?

nothing's a necessity except talent and originality.

[piscaries]

i just kinda mean proper more in the way of generic. i guess i just worded it poorly. i'm not by any means saying its a rule to follow. i try to avoid rigid structure in songs myself. as i said though, just let the music make its own structure.

[alex cortex]

check dis here. it´s quite funny and btw it really works that way...

http://www.klf.de/online/books/bytheklf/manual.htm

[piscaries]

that's frightening how well they put that all into words. yay music biz.