Often boring to write lyrics, create lyrics, and sing at will. I wrote another song today, thinking about it.

Lyrics are a special literary genre. Fundamentally speaking, it is a kind of metrical poem. For the needs of singing, it must be short and pithy, catchy, easy to remember, targeted, with neat sentence patterns and paragraphs and full melody; See the big from the small, shallow but not detailed, and the content is light and tasteful. From this point of view, the lyrics are obviously different from the current poems (especially the poems of obscure pioneers). Simply put, lyrics are auditory art and poetry is visual art.

Write lyrics in a short form.

Lyrics are not editorials, novels or essays. Generally speaking, a song has only a few minutes to sing. Even the Yellow River Chorus, Long March songs and the like were sung in just one hour. This is the most striking feature of the lyrics.

Lyrics need to be composed to fly in the wider world. Therefore, the lyrics must have the minimum sentence patterns and paragraph patterns. The sentence patterns in the first paragraph and the second paragraph should not be too different, otherwise there is no way to compose music. For example, in the well-known "Dongfanghong", the first paragraph is "Dongfanghong, the sun has risen, and there is a Mao Zedong in China." The second paragraph is "the * * * production party, like the sun, shines wherever it shines." This can be repeated. If we change the second paragraph to "Party, the sun in your heart, you shine brilliantly on the whole world!" You can't sing the same song. Because its sentence pattern is completely different.

Lyrics should also have a sense of melody. Without a sense of melody, Dongfanghong becomes like this: "The sky in the east is red, and a sunrise is rising. In this ancient land of China, a great man-Mao Zedong appeared. " The meaning is exactly the same, but is this still a song?

In terms of content, the lyrics should be small and big, shallow but not detailed, light and tasteful.

Beginners often say, "Mount Tai is our skeleton and the Great Wall is our backbone; The Yangtze River is our blood, and the Yellow River is our cradle. "This kind of lyrics appeared. There is nothing wrong with such a sentence, even very verve. But it made a big taboo: it is called "fake, big and empty". Because anyone can write this sentence, even more gorgeous than it, but there is no soul of lyrics-true feelings. If the lyrics have no real feelings, they will become slogans, and the slogans will be finished as soon as they are shouted, which will not attract the audience's attention.

Really good lyrics reflect a profound theme through some small phenomena. Through unpretentious language and ingenious conception, the work is given more tension, and the connotation of the work is richer and the artistic conception is more meaningful. For example, the disappearance of Mr. Qiao Yu: "Where are you from, my friend? Like a butterfly, flying to my window ... "He passed a small butterfly, reflecting a feeling of full charm and out-of-body experience. It's shocking, thought-provoking and delicious.

In addition, short and pithy lyrics also require it to be targeted. What you want to write should be conceived, laid out and organized into wonderful language around this theme. Missing is missing, and the east is the east. If you ramble and are not targeted, then you have written a thousand words, but the audience doesn't know what to say. Isn't this a mess?

In addition, when writing lyrics, we must pay attention to the following questions.

First, the feelings should be rich, and it is forbidden to be "fake, big and empty"

"False, big and empty" is the most common mistake made by all beginners (including some masters) in lyrics writing. Because there is no real feeling, it is easy to get excited. Maybe I feel fake myself, and I'm afraid I'm not strong enough to express myself, so I make up for it. To make up for it, you will make the second mistake: talk big. The result will lead to the third mistake: emptiness. Just like the example we gave above: "Mount Tai is our skeleton and the Great Wall is our backbone; The Yangtze River is our blood and the Yellow River is our cradle. " If you analyze it, it is not difficult to find that this is a typical example of "fake, big and empty". First of all, it's not true feelings. At least not from the heart. Not close to life, not close to reality, not close to the masses, are all platitudes. This kind of rhetoric is left over from the Cultural Revolution. It's scary and empty. It's a cliche. Anyone can write it, and no one wants to hear it. Emotional departure is unreal, unreal is bad, and bad is not beautiful. Therefore, "false, big and empty" is the first taboo in lyrics writing, and you must not make it.

Second, the writing object should be targeted.

Lyrics are always written for people to sing. Therefore, before you start writing, you must think clearly: Who is it for? What kind of people and industries are they written for? Even who is the audience? It should be clear to everyone.

Don't think this is a trivial matter. In fact, for the spread of lyrics, this is necessary and can not be ignored. For example, we are going to write a song of soldiers in white for medical staff, and you can't give it to Campus Spring to sing. Another example is the children's song you wrote, which is impossible for PLA soldiers to sing. Everyone understands this truth, but not everyone understands it when writing. When writing lyrics, if you distinguish between the objects, you can grasp the emotion of the lyrics with the language and mentality of your writing object, so that the author's rich feelings can be twisted into a rope, and one force can infect the audience and become a clue that affects the audience. Only in this way can you make the words simple and profound, and the composer can make music that arouses the audience, is suitable for singing and can make the audience applaud. Isn't this the case with the military song Song of 1234?

Third, the mood and structure of lyrics must be stable.

These are basically the same as the above. Before you write, be sure to find out in what mood you are writing this song. Is it affection or thunder? Humor or seriousness? This is very important for the writing of lyrics. Otherwise, what is written is love, but the taste is the battlefield of bullets; It is said that "three monks carry water to eat", but the content has become a high praise, which is a mess. Therefore, a main line of lyrics can only write one content, and it must run through the mood. But there must be a difference between the paragraphs of the lyrics (note that it is not a natural paragraph, but a progressive level of content). This is the structure of the lyrics. Generally speaking, the structure of lyrics includes initiation, inheritance, transformation and combination. However, this, inheritance, transformation and integration, all need to have their own emotional characteristics. Is the tone; Inheritance is change; The turning point is the climax; Combination is regression.

This is necessary in lyrics writing. Because the main lines and changes of lyrics can make it easier for composers to grasp the tone of lyrics, thus making the melody of music ups and downs, twists and turns lingering.

Of course, there are also simple feelings throughout. Such as "National Anthem" and "March of the Sword". However, this is only an exceptional usage.

Fourth, start with a small problem and get to the point.

Beginners' lyrics are often big topics, which seem to be insufficient to express their majestic feeling. In fact, this is a big misunderstanding. Of course, you can write a big topic. As long as it is well written, it is welcomed not only by the society but also by the people. However, pour some cold water, do you have enough skills? Can you control the whole theme? You know, many masters fell off their horses because of this!

Starting with a small theme (that is, a small entrance), we often dig deeper. Take Mr. Qiao Yu's excellent work "Missing" as an example: from a small butterfly, I wrote down all my feelings and thoughts between friends; The song "Go home often to see" may not be so excellent, but it starts with such a trivial matter as "Go home often to see" and writes about the family happiness on earth, which is also extremely successful. Because its thoughts are ultimately healthy, popular, close to life, close to reality and close to the masses. Therefore, it is also successful. A well-known "Fire Wind" sang a song "Big Sedan". Please forgive me for being blunt: this is sheer nonsense. Because its starting point is good, but the idea is really vulgar!

Five, the idea should be clever, the language should be novel and the idea should be high.

Clever ideas are unconventional. On the basis of the above aspects, we should try our best to be novel and refreshing. The example we cited earlier, "Mount Tai is our skeleton and the Great Wall is our backbone; The Yangtze River is our blood and the Yellow River is our cradle. " Such a thing is unimaginable. The first person to compare a woman to a flower is a genius; Second, mediocrity; The third is a fool. "As the old saying goes. If you want to be clever, you must observe more, remember more, and have specific images in your mind.

Speaking a new language means not saying what others often say, but saying that you are unique. For example, the first person tells a joke and everyone laughs; The second man said, maybe someone laughed; However, after the third person spoke, I'm afraid he just smiled. To say that there is something in others' hearts that is not in their mouths! I'm afraid everyone thought that Mr. Qiao Yu used butterflies to write his thoughts. Unfortunately, his old gentleman wrote them first. He wrote all the feelings and thoughts between friends. No matter how clever you are, you can only prove that you are a fool. If you write your own sentence from another angle (or image), everyone has thought about it from this angle but no one has said it, and you will succeed!

Noble and clean means that the content is healthy, which conforms to the "three closeness" and the aesthetic requirements of the people. Just like the song "I miss the river in my hometown", it is obviously a wanderer's tone, but it sincerely praises my hometown and the development of my motherland. Therefore, the composer wrote the songs touching, beautiful and moving, leaving a deep impression on people. But the famous "Fire Wind" and his song "Big Sedan" are so vulgar that some people say that this is a complete wedding textbook. The idea should be clever, the language should be novel, and the idea should be high. There is a good saying: "Pay attention to everything and learn, and always think of everything as an article."