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    Armin van Buuren discusses working with lyrics and vocals in electronic music. Even if you've never worked with words before, experimenting can add emotion and make songs unforgettable. Armin wrote lyrics for some of his own songs despite not being a native English speaker. Listen to your music to find emotions that can inspire lyrics. Creating your own vocal samples is another way to add excitement and avoids legal issues of sampling others. The chapter encourages experimenting with lyrics for tracks in progress by ad-libbing gibberish at first then fitting words to the melody.

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    Armin van Buuren discusses working with lyrics and vocals in electronic music. Even if you've never worked with words before, experimenting can add emotion and make songs unforgettable. Armin wrote lyrics for some of his own songs despite not being a native English speaker. Listen to your music to find emotions that can inspire lyrics. Creating your own vocal samples is another way to add excitement and avoids legal issues of sampling others. The chapter encourages experimenting with lyrics for tracks in progress by ad-libbing gibberish at first then fitting words to the melody.

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    Armin van Buuren discusses working with lyrics and vocals in electronic music. Even if you've never worked with words before, experimenting can add emotion and make songs unforgettable. Armin wrote lyrics for some of his own songs despite not being a native English speaker. Listen to your music to find emotions that can inspire lyrics. Creating your own vocal samples is another way to add excitement and avoids legal issues of sampling others. The chapter encourages experimenting with lyrics for tracks in progress by ad-libbing gibberish at first then fitting words to the melody.

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    Armin van Buuren discusses working with lyrics and vocals in electronic music. Even if you've never worked with words before, experimenting can add emotion and make songs unforgettable. Armin wrote lyrics for some of his own songs despite not being a native English speaker. Listen to your music to find emotions that can inspire lyrics. Creating your own vocal samples is another way to add excitement and avoids legal issues of sampling others. The chapter encourages experimenting with lyrics for tracks in progress by ad-libbing gibberish at first then fitting words to the melody.

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    20.

    WORKING
    WITH LYRICS
    AND VOCALS
    CHAPTER RE VIE W

    “We’ve used a human voice Audiences love lyrics. Even in mostly instrumental music like
    trance, the right words can add a layer of emotion that makes a
    as a synthesizer...it sounds
    song unforgettable. Even if you’ve never worked with words and
    weird, it sounds off, it
    lyrics before, that shouldn’t stop you from experimenting. Armin
    sounds unconventional, it isn’t a native English speaker, but he put pen to paper and wrote
    sounds great.” the rap for “You Are,” as well as a trance music preach for “I Live
    —Armin van Buuren for That Energy,” which was based on “My House” by Chuck
    Roberts. Listen to what you’ve produced, let it lead you to an
    SU B C HAPTER S
    emotion, and then the words will come.
    • Don’t Be Afraid of Lyrics
    • Trust Your First Idea Creating your own vocal samples can also be a great way to add
    • Create Your Own Vocal Samples: excitement to your tracks. It also saves you from having to worry
    “I Live For That Energy” about the legal implications of sampling someone else’s work.
    • Manipulating a Vocal Sample:
    “Be in the Moment” LE ARN M ORE

    • Armin says the chorus of “Sunny Days” reminded him of


    “Lovely Day” by Bill Withers. You can listen to that track here.
    Do you hear any similarities?

    • The rap for “I Live for That Energy” was inspired by Chuck
    Roberts’s “My House.” Listen to the a cappella here.

    • Armin highly recommends the Alchemy Synth which is now


    a part of Logic Pro. Alchemy coupled with the ArtsAcoustic
    Reverb created the unconventional sound in the intro of “Be in
    the Moment.”

    A S SI G NMENT

    • Experiment with lyrics for at least one of your tracks-in-


    progress. If you’re intimidated by the writing process,
    remember ABBA’s approach to lyrics—they ad-libbed gibberish
    melodies then wrote lyrics to fit. You can take this approach,
    but remember to save your first idea and come back to it
    periodically.

    ARMIN VAN BUUREN 29

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