63. "I think it works in both ways..I mean" In response to In response to 54
technically music or songs are melody, harmony and ryhthm. My experience is that you can develop a good song by starting at any point. For instance, a person may hum a nice melody line to themselves. From that melody that may derive lyrics that follow the melody line. Then rythm and harmony parts etc.
Likewise I could bang out a nice rythm on a table and begin to mumble out melodies to coincide etc. From there lyrics and so on.
I don't think melody begets the song. I would agree that it plays a definitive roll in the overall song. But as a technicality it doesn't drive the songwriting process.
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