AboutThe Professor Expertise Regarding creativity in general, I can assist with: the creative process; what's new and isn't new under the sun; establishing the right mind-set; a means of achieving variety; taking advantage of ideas from a set routine; taking advantage of ideas from sporadic epiphanies; methods of documenting your ideas; thinking within the construct of your subject; thinking outside the box; adaptation through association; incorporating material that you are not familiar with; approaching the development process on macro and micro levels; compiling relevant material; and interpreting other reactions to your creations. I can also answer several music-related questions. I have multiple degrees and years of experience in the field, covering many topics. Refer to my bio for additional info.
Experience Two bachelors degrees (music education and music performance); masters degree (performance with additional emphasis in composition); doctorate (performance/literature, theory/composition, electro-acoustics (sound engineering)) (in progress). I've been working and teaching in the field for over 13 years now.
Expert: The Professor Date: 8/17/2006 Subject: Emotion and illustration
Question Hey, what is the best way for a lyricists to capture the audience through emotion as well as better illustrate a message?
Answer Hi,
I am not a vocalist, though have written lyrics. From any type of musician's perspective, an extremely unique individual that serves as a great reference for the question you addressed is guitarist Steve Vai.
If you try to get a hold of any video or videos of him performing live you will learn quite a bit through simple observation. Vai is an extremely expressive musician (visually as well as aurally). Be it slow, fast, angry, sad, weird, luke-warm, wild, yearning, etc. - you can discover several kinds of emotions illustrated in Vai's performances.
I cannot say there is any single "best way" for a lyricist to capture the audience but you can certainly discover that the example musican noted above is quite successful with their methods of portraying the message.
