Rhyming Patterns?

[Simple Voice]

What is a good rhyming pattern for a slower calmer love song?

[wyotryot]

you might want to try an abab sort of scheme for slower tunes. I also like to use mid-line rhymes, and repeat sounds (like a k sound, or a t sound) within lines.

[Simple Voice]

Right now i have an AABB pattern going...

[wyotryot]

How's that rhyme scheme working out for you?

[Joey_15215]

Breakdown the syllable value of each sentence as you go, because that value must coincide with what you are writing musically to it.  You do not even have to rhyme all the time ... as long as syllable/song notation flow together.  Rhyming helps a lot of people get into laying down first attempts to writing to music because of the easy flow it provides.

You may have a musical idea that is tooo permanently written within your mind and physically already playing on the instrument(s).  Or you may be already fixated on what you want the lyrics and their stream of flow to be.  Either which way, you will have to figure out which is going to be the initial driving force of the song.  And that's not to say that I haven't literally started writing one note/measure at a time as I came up with the lyrics.  Some songs/lyrics are wrote with entire precision as key while some songs just naturally flowed in their inception.

Metallica's "Black" album is an example of wrote with meant precision as they went.  Not to mention that their upcoming 2012 release is supposed to revisit that format of writing.

Experiment with all ways of writing the lyrics and songs in order to best become versatile.

-rjd