Writing lyrics is to determine the style and then write homophones. Of course, lyrics should have a literary atmosphere. In line with the style of your novel.
How to write lyrics well
First of all, we should be able to touch ourselves, and more importantly, we should be able to arouse the voices of others.
We must temper a lyric with all our emotions, combine the most touching stories and emotions in life, express them in the most accurate and vivid language, and pave the way with rigorous structure until the climax. To write what moves you the most, you should not only write in a dry mood, but also be moved by it again when reading your own work. If you can do this, you will take the most crucial step to success. But this step is also the most difficult, depending on whether your writing and talent are at home.
A real master may just listen to other people's stories, but he can also feel the same, on the one hand, because they have rich life experience, on the other hand, because they have profound insight into human nature, feelings and life. On this basis, we can write touching works by constantly honing our own words.
On the other hand, some people can't find that kind of "feeling" in what they write, although they have touching experiences and their writing is passable. This is because when writing, these friends ignore the clever telling of stories, the meticulous depiction of characters and the clever expression of inner feelings. They didn't draw the details Therefore, although the tone is warm and surging, there is always a little distance from being moved.
To sum up, to do the first point well, we must do the following six points from the beginning:
● Describe stories and emotions that you feel strongly about as much as possible;
● Have a deeper understanding and insight into human nature, feelings and even life;
● Pay attention to the depiction of details, especially those details that many people may have similar experiences;
● Don't talk about storytelling, give full play to the jumping characteristics of poetry, and aim the "lens" at the most representative picture;
● Don't be lyrical without a story, even if it is vague, there must be "fragments" or "shadows" of the story;
● Only the most essential sentences can climax. "The language is not amazing." If you can't think of wonderful words, you'll never write them.
Second, carefully plan the structure of lyrics, and grasp the rhythm of "connecting the past with the future".
After doing the first point, we should have a clear sense of the lyrics to be written, and at the same time, we should have the most wonderful words, and then we should carefully conceive the structure of the whole lyrics. Some friends can't wait to sit down and write as soon as they have a good feeling or words, which often leads to no good works. We should get into the habit of planning the lyrics first. There are four basic types of pop songs: one paragraph, two paragraphs, three paragraphs and many paragraphs. At present, pop songs are mostly three or more paragraphs, and one or two paragraphs are rarely used because they are too short to express emotions well. The style of a song is generally determined by its melody, such as "You at the same table" and "Sister" by Zhang Chu, which are all multi-styles.
The first article is about "Don't be lyrical without a story", which mainly uses three or more paragraphs for the overall layout, because it is relatively easy to use the method of "story+lyricism" when writing three paragraphs of lyrics. Moreover, if a lyric has a little story, it can better carry out the changes of "starting, inheriting, turning and combining". Although it sounds a bit old-fashioned, it is very important for friends who have just started to learn lyrics writing. In fact, most excellent lyrics have a good grasp of the structure of "connecting the past with the present".
Finally, we should pay attention to the end of the lyrics and the harmony of the whole word. There are generally three kinds of endings: one is to repeat all or part of the climax to the end; The second is the transition from climax to some function words; The third is to repeat the beginning (or change it slightly) to calm down the high-pitched mood. The end of the song is mainly arranged by the composer, but if the lyricist can take this into account when creating, it will leave more creative space for the composer. In addition, every paragraph of the whole word should echo back and forth, especially the details. Only in this way can we create perfect works.
It should be pointed out here that:
● Rise-the beginning is as important as the climax. Your story and your emotions should be attractive from the beginning;
● Commitment-the most difficult part, whether it can reach the climax smoothly depends on the last sentence or two;
● turning point-there is not necessarily an obvious "trace", but more likely a change in tone and tone;
I told you, don't write easily without thinking of this paragraph.
The end-let a person have a feeling of endless aftertaste.
Several principles of writing lyrics:
1, lyrics and poetry are two artistic carriers. Although lyrics and poems have the same * * *, lyrics are lyrics, not poems, and poems are not lyrics. Their expressions are different, especially in modern popular lyrics.
2. The theme of lyrics should be focused, and the choice of lyrics can be wide, but it should be focused and the theme must be prominent. Don't have too many events, too many clues, too many images, too many characters or too complicated time and place in a song.
3, the title of the song, the title should be innovative and vivid.
4, the lyrics should have popular sentences, remember the main points.
5. The language of lyrics should be concise, colloquial, fashionable and popular.
6. The structure of lyrics should be clear, and the basic elements of lyrics are words, syllables, sentence patterns and paragraphs. Its style is limited by a certain musical structure, and the most basic structural elements in the form of a song are the main song, chorus, parenthesis and memory points. Therefore, a lyric should have paragraphs, levels, climax, correspondence and contrast.
7. Lyrics should focus on stories and plots.
Second, play the Rubik's Cube in written language.
1, noun+adjective,
Don't exaggerate the feeling of pursuing truth.
Don't exaggerate the pursuit of popular fashion language
Don't pretend to pursue interesting sentences.
Don't be far-fetched, pursue the beauty of nature.
2. Verb+adverb,
The choice of verbs and adverbs is very important. To make your lyrics natural, vivid and attractive, you must choose correct and vivid verbs, which is the lifeline of lyrics creation.
In order to avoid the paleness of words, we must learn to use adverbs, especially the narration of popular songs. If there is no correct connection or lack of adverbs, it is as attractive and tempting as going upstairs without steps.
In writing practice, we can strengthen the combination of adjectives and nouns and the innovative collocation of verbs and nouns from simple to complex. In the later period of writing, we should change from complexity to simplicity and delete unnecessary combinations, which is the second leap of the poet's creation.
3. Progress is an emotional expression.
In lyrics writing, progressive methods are often used to promote the development of people's emotions and plots. Progressive technology can be divided into parallelism progressive and sequential progressive. The parallel progressive theory is rational, while the sequential progressive theory is narrative. Generally speaking, words written quietly are good words.
4, foil is the overpass of ideas.
Don't describe the shape, describe its shadow, and show the shape through the shadow. This is called taking a shadow. That is, foil, which means not writing characters or stories directly, but describing other things to express characters or stories.
Set-off, whether set-off or contrast, is a rhetorical device of lyrics. In modern lyrics, the beginning is not necessarily used. Multiple groups of foil chorus appear, or fill is used at the beginning of an emotion.
Set off this scene and this thing with other scenes and things, set off this feeling with other scenes and things, and set off people's thoughts and feelings with their own shadows and environment. Of course, foil must be used properly. A good foil can be sensational and promote emotional development. If the foil is not good, it will gild the lily and weaken emotional development.
5. Metaphor is a kaleidoscope of images.
Metaphorically, compare one thing to another, and the other thing mentioned actually refers to the thing being compared.
Simile, used to describe the relationship between one thing and another different thing, is connected by words like this.
Metonymy is an ontology without metaphor, and the vehicle directly serves as the ontology.
6. Image is the wing of thinking.
Image thinking is to express abstract thoughts and feelings in lyrics with images of concrete things and scenes. Therefore, image thinking, like logical thinking, is also one of the ways of thinking of ci writers, and it may be a more important way of thinking.
There are three ways to express thinking in images. One is to write images to express thoughts and feelings with concreteness; the other is to write feelings with concreteness in lyricism; the third is to write images to express thoughts and feelings and blend scenes.
7. Overlapping and serial syntax are interesting.
In the modification of lyrics, repetition, questioning, analogy, pointing, antithesis and comparison are all commonly used techniques.
Natural and insipid
Nature is not a rhetorical method, but a lyrical style. This is an important style of popular lyrics. Many forms and styles of works and languages are not necessarily meaningful, but they must be exaggerated. On the contrary, the more natural, simple and plain the language, the more touching it is.
Nature is relatively artificial, which means not artificial, not painted, not piled up, not flashy, not grandstanding.
A good foundation ensures that one can succeed in everything he does.
In addition to learning the rhetoric of lyrics and language writing skills, we should pay special attention to the fact that as a poet, we should constantly accumulate our own language in practice, strengthen the information content of language vocabulary and establish our own language information database.
1, reading more marginal arts such as prose, reportage and poetry will enrich your knowledge and broaden your horizons.
2. Pay attention to music, listen to classic records and radio charts.
3. Observe life, collect modern and fashionable life terms, and strengthen colloquialism, popularization and urban language.
In short, take the lyrics seriously as a profession. Language is a Rubik's cube, see how you spin it. The important basis of rotation is the accumulation of language. In the process of lyrics creation, any imagination is futile. Only by accumulating a lot of money can you hope to become a professional poet.