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I decided to kinda stray from mirroring both my blogs for once, just so that it doesn't quite seem pre-conceptualised.

Been thinking for a long time about how I actually compose and write music, lyrics, what inspires and how I actually fabricate the tune. In truth, just about anything can trigger the writing mode in me, that's probably due to the fact that I'm more emotional than rational most of the time.

When I sat down and started playing around with some tunes for "People", I decided to start off with a mock title, which usually ends up as the actual song title anyway. As I progressed, the song style becomes more obvious, the tempo dictates certain syllabi, and the key cleans up the vocal range - for everything else its just a matter of playing on the instruments.

Lyrical writings starts, and progresses along with the creation of the melody and progression. Now, at this junction I must mention that my progression theories suck, so I end up just finding the next better chord. By the time the tune is out with the melody in, the lyrics go through a run through - and this is when cancellation starts to rewrite for a smoother singing. By now, the guide vocals have been recorded, and while it is being done, refining the lyrics becomes a critical process to ease out the entire song. When the actual recording starts, emphasis would be placed, which is definitely after repeated listening of the rough mix on the song, and then perfecting it to my description.

And I go through all these steps when I write most of the time. And this entry somehow explains it so quickly. Perhaps the question popped up again while "People" was kinda being done.

As of today, I have heard the song at least a hundred times, yet I can't quite identify all the problems with the song as yet. Nevertheless, I think it's a winner for the album so far, and that's as far as it goes. Getting tired after a beer, perhaps I'll fill in more the next time I need to rant about this again!