of sight is accountable for most imagery. Seeing things may not be as significant to the song writer as seeing beyond or into things. Sight must lead to insight. Develop into a seer, or a visionary, and make that your true mission. Apply that to some of your songs and see what you can come up with.
Becoming a visionary makes the difference between songs that matter and songs that don't. Try to do things opposed to what you do well. If you rap loud try rapping low or calm. If you usually spit fast try slowing it down a bit. You will come across all types of little things you can incorporate into your lyrics. This little exercise can stretch and inflate your range in addition to giving out imagery within your raps.
Five Exercises To Help With Adding Imagery To Your Lyrics
1.) Wherever you are, close your eyes and try to restructure the scene around you in your head. When you've completed the picture in your “minds eye”, open your eyes and check the results. Jot it down in a notebook or journal. Then later slot in what you've came up with into a verse. Repeat this exercise often, in different places. Imagine a scene and you in the middle of it. If a song comes out of this , fine, but that's not the immediate point. Learning to see is.
2.) Practice close observation the way Sherlock Holmes would. Try to notice everything about a person or a place and thing. Then try to figure out whats behind that person or place: the dirty fingers of the bank teller, the crushed, greasy thumbnail of the mechanic, the door-shaped discoloration on the wallpaper. Be a detective. Then write a eight bar verse about what you've observed, perhaps in the voice of you or one of the characters in your image.
3.) Imagine you've been blindfolded and taken to some strange location. Create in your mind what the place might look like. Is it indoors or out? Cold or hot or mild? Dark or light? What colors do you see? What sounds can your hear? What actions are taking place around you, if any? What clothes or cars do you see? What street are you on? What objects? What other people? Write a verse about what you do next when stranded in that place.
4.) Look at something for a extended time, longer than you consider needed. A scene, a picture, a person, the night sky, a room. Then illustrate whats invisible but nonetheless there. Create what you don't see as real as what you see. Write a verse that moves back and forth between the seen and the unseen.
5.) Picture what a place will look like in a hundred years or what it looked like a century ago. Don't allow yourself the clichés of science fiction. Don't assume destruction or a emptiness. Envision as fully as you can. Start by trying to figure out where the scene now is headed, then set out from the path of common sense into the backwoods of fantasy.
Next time your in the studio try to inflame energy within your lyrics. I guarantee you it will help.
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One way or another, vision is essential to song writing. Of the five senses, the sense of sight is accountable for most imagery. Seeing things may not be as significant to the song writer as seeing beyond or into things. Sight must lead to insight. Develop into a seer, or a visionary, and make that your true mission. Apply that to some of your songs and see what you can come up with.
Becoming a visionary makes the difference between songs that matter and songs One way or another, vision is essential to song writing. Of the five senses, the sense
Ways To Add Imagery To Your Lyrics
