when youre writing a guitar part for a song, do you write the song out in musical notation/tab form or keep it in your head/on recording?
i normally start by writing out the chord progression on paper, and then if the melody is simple enough, i notate it on staff paper. Most commonly though, i either memorize the part or record it for future reference.
i always tell myself i am going to write a song, but it usually turns out to be about two hours of fuckin around... i need focus!
Surely either you write it out or you don't. If you write it you write it. For the record when I write guitar parts in my arrangements/compositions I usually just put rhythms with crossed note-heads and post codes above the bars for the changes. If the guitarist wants to elaborate, that's up to them, because I'm no guitarist so I let the guitarist decide where to go from there. It'd be a waste of time my being very specific because I'd never get it to be easily playable on the guitar and it would sound laboured anyway and not like an adlib or improvisiation which would be the effect I'd be going for in the first place anyway.
lately ive been writing down the chord progessions as they come to me, the lyrics come out pretty easy if youve got a tune to write to.. either that or i ghostwrite over a song that is stuck in my head, and after ive got the lyrics, i find the chords for the song.
I either remember them (and sometiems write the chords (like 'F#7' or 'C') along with some lyrics) or record them with a microphone and come back to them later and work it out again fromw hat i can remember. i find it takes too long to write tabs, and i cant transpose to musical notation fluently (i can do it but it takes me a long time cuas i have to think about every note, its not instinctive)
I remember, usually. Occasionally I'll notate something with TAB, but usually it's not a problem for me to just remember.
