Making vocal hooks is my favorite thing to do. That's what I love about songwriting - making catchy stuff.
Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.
It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.
I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.
I think I'm much more of a guitar-songwriter than a singer. I start with chords and then test out melodies rather than improvising over it.
I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.
I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.
I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also it's mostly intuitive; I noodle around with the line until it sounds and feels right.
I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.
I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.
I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
