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So over the years, a lot of people have asked me to sort of describe my song writing process from beginning to end. |
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How long does it take, where do you write, what are the circumstances, do you start with music, do you start with lyrics, |
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and my answer is always that it happens differently every time, |
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and that's why I'm still so in love with song writing. |
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So what I've done here is shown you three different examples of the beginning stages of these songs and how they each started, different ways. |
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So I'll explain them to you and maybe that will help you understand kind of how I put songs together |
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I sent this voice memo to Ryan Tedder because I'd always wanted to work with him, |
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and finally we scheduled some studio time. |
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So I always wanna be prepared. |
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I wanted to send him the idea that I was working on before we went into the studio |
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just in case he wrote back and said "I can't stand that, I wanna work on something else, think of something else". |
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So I just sat down with the piano, put my phone on top of the piano |
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and just kind of explained to him where I wanted to go with the song, |
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how I saw the melody sitting in |
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and we ended up recording the song the next day and it ended up being on the record called "I Know Places". |
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So this was the voice memo I sent to him the night before we ended up finishing the song |
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"Okay so this is kind of this rough idea thing: “ |
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Uh-uh-uh-oh, oh-oh-oh-i |
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Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-i |
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Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-i-i-i |
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Na na na na waiting at the back door |
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They're around and the vultures come around |
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And you know that they, they won't us |
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Say what they want 'bout, say what they want 'bout us |
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And you come and sing, and |
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I would not think about it but I'm not done |
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Every know that a thing or two about it, thing or two about it, I |
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Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes |
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And guns |
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They are the hunters we are the foxes |
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And we run |
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Baby, I know places we won't be found |
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And they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down |
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Cause I, I know places we can hide |
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I know places, I know places |
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Uh-uh-uh-i, uh-uh-uh-i, oh-oh-i, uh-uh-uh-i, no places |
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Or whatever I don't know, but that's basically just like a dark, really dark, |
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lyric like bridge thing and it's about like |
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everyone is trying to get into and ruin a love or whatever and it's like you just, |
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whatever, you know, and the would just go to that major and just be like ooh . |
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So I hope you like it, it wouldn't be a piano thing |
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It would be like Ohhh~, very like beat |
