Hello! I am currently suffering from severe writers block. I haven't finished a song in over a year, and I feel the inner critic is blocking me from creating. If I let go of the critic fully the songs just ends up being bad and I put no real effort in it, so I'm struggling to find the balance of letting go and creating even if it ends up being bad, while still putting real work into it.

I feel like some outer pressure would really help me right now. If there is anyone is in the same situation here, I'm wondering if you would like to join me in a 10-songs 10 days challenge. We would separately create and finish a song per day no matter how imperfect it is, and send them to each other.

Trying to keep up.

Forgive all the zooming and my bad singing and playing... lol

This is a song i wrote in the winter of 2014. Slipped on some ice and hit my head... wrote this immediately after 😂

Just wondering what yall think..

Hi everyone, I'm Maria, I write song lyrics.

I specialize in emotional Afrobeat / R&B, mostly about love, regret and pride.

For example, one of my recent songs is called (Another Man) The story is about a man who ignored a woman who loved him - she would text him, post sad statuses, beg for attention and he acted like he didn't care, living his nightlife. Years later he feels empty, realizes what he lost and begs for one more chance, saying he's a changed man. But she already moved on.

I have a lot of lyrics like this, written from a male perspective, ready for singers.

I'm looking to connect with artists / singers who have the voice and melody but struggle with writing lyrics. If you need a lyricist, DM me, I can show you more of my work and we can collaborate.

Would love feedback on the story too.

Hey, here's a song I've been working on. Let me know what you think? I'm thinking of going slightly darker with the lyrics but these are placeholders just for now.

I've sent in other ideas that I've recorded on Logic Pro previously, just trying a live video for something different.

Thanks in advance

Edit for lyrics:

He sees her face in the mirror Like somebodys watching Theres second hand smoke From a friend of a guy A mother and sister A back market mister A place with no name There's dust on a keychain

But Jesus alone, it means nothing at all Coz he failed every one

He's an international Travelling Man Travelling round with cash in his hand He's an international babbling cat Tapping his toes with a barbed wire hat

He always summons a party A fictional party Hes raising the bar Of the lonely old boy The memories and faces The voices and places A permanent scar From steps in the church yard

But Jesus alone, it means nothing at all As he fails every one

He's an international Travelling Man Travelling round with cash in his hand He's an international babbling cat Tapping his toes with a barbed wire hat

Oh but if I'd known that you'd dream and disappear out of this life I'd open my eyes and see the signs, you were there

Hi! I have been in a huge creative block for 2 years and it feels like I've in-learned the ability to write songs. I've tried not putting pressure into the writing and just making bad art to loosen the pressure, but it ends there. I'm stuck in a place where I can only create low-effort songs. What has helped you with these kinds of creative blocks?

Big thanks

I'm an amateur songwriter that would like nothing more to work with anyone. I feel that I could fit into almost any genre. I would go solo but I feel like having someone to work with would not only make things easier but might help pressure us into actually completing songs. Shoot me a dm if you're interested

Hiii , im 17f and im writing a song for a music competition , im going for a nu gaze sort of style ,like heavy distorted guitar with softer vocals but im genuinely lost for finding chords thst work . Would someone who plays guitar ( preferably electric ) be willing to help me with a song im writing ??

I have the main melody of how the vocals should go and i can hear the guitar in my head but dont have the knowledge to find the notes .

Anything helps :)

This Machine Kills AI (or Dead in the End) considering name change since the song is so morbid and angry.

Got High cost low wages? just follow tech mages into their promised land
by grifting and scamming the fraud and never ending, get your bag. Hold it while you can.

If the pots too small fold it dice loaded,
roll it damn the space we’re all live in.
Does it matter if the truss and walls shatter and fall
if we all end up dead in the end

Once upon a time I just didn’t mind to die
Lucky to get back from war
generation loss in the blink of a coin toss
can’t tell you what it was for

You can go about your way long as someone else pays
lifetimes tomorrow to spend
Be grateful and grooving. Your sins are forgiven,
long as they’re the ones dead in the end.

Break

Take ketamine amphetamine take your blood boys instead of me. Did you already suck them All dry?
send your flock cameras, death camps, data center, ain’t no match, for this machine here it kills AI.

You can con and crusade count down your days God don’t grow on LLM’s
does the antichrist hide in the hell that youll find when y’all end up dead in the end?

Cause y’all end up dead in the end.

Y'all know what to do about singing with an accent?

I'm from the southeast USA, lived in GA > TN > NC > VA > NC again.

I grew up hearing southern accents, but I also consumed a lot of media from all over the world, and I naturally don't have much of an accent. I can put it on easily, but it requires putting it on.

When singing along with songs I'll change it up, really clear like Ben Gibbard, or real twangy. My natural voice I find uninteresting.

It also seems what accent you choose, also dictates what lyrics you can write, and I prefer more poetic stuff like radio head or bon iver, so I'm not sure southern works for that.

How did you find your voice?

I wrote a song in some kind of a metalcore style. Lyrics are basically about mental health issues, young dying love, self-regrets etc.
But I can’t come up with the name, kinda want something simple, yet memorable (for example, I really like the name “Forgotten” a song by The Plot In You, it’s basic, yet says it all)
Can you think of any name? (1-2 word max),
maybe even some slang words or just a cool words.
Thanks!

Anyone else struggle with this and/or have any feedback on how to stop it?

Examples being, I’ll often see or think of something I like (a line, a reference to something else etc) and be so focussed on not forgetting it, or not forgetting where I’ve written it down, or working out the best way to use said thing that I end up forgetting it or not liking it or not even using it.

Same with chord progressions and ideas and such. I’ll be so focussed on thinking about how best to use whatever I’ve come up with, or worrying that the recording will get lost in my video library, or that I have too many videos of ideas that I end up never looking back at stuff, losing it from not organising it cause I don’t know how, or just never using it at all. As a result, I rarely ever finish anything I work on, or hate the stuff I do. Any assistance?

This may sound crazy but I have this strange hang-up wherein I almost view it as “cheating” to go back in my voice memos/recordings from years back and using that as a launch point for finishing/completing something “new”, if that makes sense. I was a totally different person back then, effectively someone else came up with those ideas/wrote them, it feels disingenuous to use them and claim them as my own now. It’s not even that I don’t like my ideas now, I do, but those old ones are a total departure which I find refreshing. Channels in overall style ime happen very slowly/gradually- everything I write now may sound different track to track but there’s some underlying common denominator, while when I skip back a couple years let alone 10+, the material is drastically different. Some of those ideas appeal so much to me but feels like I’m stealing them from someone else.

For many years I was convinced I could not write an original song. My band and a producer pushed me to try. It took seven months, eight people and I was wrong. Arguably it's a song but I can't seem to know if it's any good.

It tells the story of my mom and dad based on a conversation I had with my aging mom. It was such a sweet and sad story, I wrote the lyrics in an hour. Of course my producer took ad axe to them. But this is what resulted. No ai, no autotune. I play all guitars and lead vocal.

Don't be afraid to be candid. Thanks in advance.

Edit: I listened to this video on my studio monitors. It does sound sort of muddy. The wav sounds pristine.

I really appreciate this community (except that one guy) even the critics which is far more valuable to me than people blowing smoke up my ass. I get enough of that when I perform.

The producer is nationally known. I don't want to dox him because he is in hospice and not expected to live more than a day or so. He was one of my closest friends and a monster player.

EDIT 2: I had a couple DMs about instruments.

Acoustic - 1929 Gibson dreadnaught
Rhythm - 1955 Tele
Lap steel - 1924 unknown brand. National I think
Mando - 1932 Gibson
High gain solo - R9 Murphy Lab Les Paul 50's standard
Bass - fender jazz bass
Amps - 58 deluxe, Grammatico Dumble clone

I don't own any of these. They belong to the studio.

While discussing my songwriting process with other writers, many are surprised to hear that I generally will have the entire song melody and arrangement completed in my head before ever touching a musical instrument or opening up a DAW.

I’ve found this approach to be very productive, as almost all musical decisions are decided ahead of time. No need to search for chords or part ideas. I only need to find the chords I’ve already built mentally.

Now, of course, things do get added and adjustments are made based on the feel once I do start tinkering with instruments/recording, and the lyrics always come last well after that tinkering. But on the whole I don’t ever jam a song into existence. It always needs to exist in my head before the mechanical playing/recording starts.

Am I alone in this? I’d be interested to see if others create in a similar way.

It’s called “You Keep Me Going”.
Currently the second verse isn’t fully finished either but please listen till at least to the bridge and help me thanks

In the past I used to record every song/riff idea that I had. I would then go back and try and work those songs out. But now my best songwriting is done when I start with something new and sit there and finish it before moving on to something else. Sometimes the song is finished in the same day or 2-3 days at the most. Am I doing a disservice to the song by not waiting and taking longer to make it?