20/10/2023
Just a note about songwriting
Many people say that songwriting only comes from inspiration. If you’re not feeling inspired, you can’t write a song. I’m sure that’s true for many people.
I can’t speak for Scott. (But I will anyway, because with a 40+ year songwriting partnership, we do that😂😂.)
I think for both of us, our songwriting doesn’t come from inspiration, it’s sheer perspiration
It all comes from ideas. On the surface that sounds like inspiration, but it’s not most of the time.  often it starts with a line. The lyric.
For example, years ago he sent me one line… “Hot Mess, to Princess” - go! And I sat down and wrote the song Hot Mess from beginning to end in two days. The lyrics came together in about an hour. The lyrics that are in the actual released song… With no changes.
That is often the way it goes.
Other times, an idea for a guitar riff will come. But often sitting down with the lyrics, the riff comes easy
Sometimes we record snippets of licks. And then at other times we will write some lyrics, then later and we realize that one of those riffs in the archive fits the lyric perfectly.
But I think, for both of us, we could literally sit down anywhere, at any time… And on demand - write a song
We kind of did that on our YouTube channel a couple of times where we share the song writing process with you.
 I have recently been working on a demo for a new AC/DC inspired song
It started when I sent Scott an idea, “we should write a real strong AC/DC inspired song. Let’s dive into it headfirst”
He wrote back, “dive into it, headfirst -  that’s the song title”
So I quickly composed a chorus of rough, scratch lyrics
Then I literally just sat there with a guitar saying - this sounds like something AC/DC would play and recorded that phrase. Then went onto the next phrase. And the next phrase, then I felt, we need to switch it up here, so I switched it up into a pre-chorus… And then composed the riff for the chorus. 
So, The guitar lick fell together quickly, but I didn’t have verse lyrics. So as I was recording the demo, I just simply sang modified lyrics for “born to be wild” as temp filler so I could work out the melody line, and then sang
the chorus we had written.
When I listened to the composition demo, the actual lyrics for the first verse came together pretty quickly
This is the process. I believe that the teamwork makes the dream work. I literally believe that we could take any subject, any idea, and write a song within a matter of a couple of days if we wanted to.
You see it’s not a matter of inspiration, it’s a matter of perspiration. It’s not sitting around, waiting for an idea to come, but it’s finding ideas in everything around us, and then just actually doing the work.
Someday, I hope Scott and I will do a workshop and in one day write a scratch song - live in front of a group and record a rough composition demo. I think people would pay to see the process. So stay tuned. -rebel
