About how others compose a song…

I was reading an interview with Eric Adams from Manowar this morning and I found it very interesting to see how they compose a song. Quite very interesting, I’d say…

So I will just reproduce here that part from the interview of Eric Adams on Metal-Rules.com, I hope I won’t get complains for copying it. So here it is:

How do you guys get to where you have the songs selected? I mean, is it just…

EA: Usually it’s if, I mean, if Joey writes the song, if he comes up with the idea, he generally comes up with the idea and–I don’t know why but it is usually two or three o’clock in the morning, because I get the phone call about that time-and he’ll always say, “I can’t continue on this song until I hear if it’s in your key, if it’s good for you.”

So I come over to his house, right away, while he’s hot and we work on it together. Once we come up with a melody together, we kind of piece the song together, and then everyone gets over to his place (we have our own studio over at his place) and we work on it as a band. Then it’s a song.

Then we move on to the next one. And that’s how it is. Then, we generally go back to it after awhile, with fresh ears, and we listen to it with new ideas.

Then we add the new ideas in. Then we leave it alone for a while. Then we move on to the next song. Then we come back to that one with fresh ears again, until we come back to that song and we say, “OK, does anyone got any more ideas?” And then when everyone has said, “Nah, I can’t think of any, I think that’s it,” then that’s it-the song gets put to bed and we move on. Because you can overproduce a song as well, if you keep on it.

Personally I found it very interesting to work like this. However, they are a professional band, it would be a bit difficult to call my buddy and lead singer in the middle of the night, hey, man, come over to test a song to see if it fits your key…I imagine his joy and willingness to come over…

What do you say about it? Do you call your lead singer in the middle of the night to see how a song would sound?

Later edit: it just hit me, how could a song not be in this guy’s key? It’s said he covers 5.5 octaves! I won’t bet my life but you should listen this:

Well?!

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