THE SECRET OF THE "DUMMY" LYRIC! | Lyrics 101 - Brentalfloss
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- Not all lyrics have to be written entirely from scratch. Sometimes it helps to write "dummy lyrics" first to make it easier when you write your ACTUAL lyrics. This handy dandy trick video will take your lyric from dumb to '~dummy thicc~'
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Like that Paul McCartney song "Yesterday" he used the words "Scrambled Eggs"
I always struggle with lyrics, so the "sing gibberish until words come out" has been my main strategy for all of my songs. Keep up the series, love these! - Andri
When I was a kid, listening to instrumental songs I'd just sometimes make up my own nonsense lyrics, but I can't remember any of them. Never realized there was a real application for that skill, however.
Super Mario Bros. 2 Character Select Dummy Lyrics.
"Let's all go to the store. Let's all go to the store. Let's all go to the store today."
Thx Brent, great video
So if I’m being annoying and singing along to a song I don’t know the lyrics to (producing total gibberish), I can just say I “am making some dummy lyrics to understand the melody better”?
Thanks Brent!
You got it!
A case of dummy lyrics that I knew of before this video is actually Crush 40 writing Sonic Heroes' opening theme. There was a preview in... I think Sonic Mega Collection that you could unlock and it was dummy lyrics with just the placement of Sonic Herooooooooes being the only part that made it out of that phase. Neat to know that's actually used across the industry!
LETS GET AN APPLE AND CHEW ON THE CORE
This is some music
This is a melody
I'm writing words now
Words that go with the melody
...that's how I imagine Freddie Mercury's first draft of Bohemian Rhapsody went.
Thank you so much for the info about the musical process. I really love this series, as I'm trying to write a complete song from scratch as a total newbie for this year's resolution
Oh wow! That’s a great goal. Good luck, I hope these videos help!
This makes me think of dave’s dummy lyrics for ocarina of time with lyrics
Sly Cooper Leitmotif
"Pull Ooooover, I have to use the loo."
The fairy theme in a link to the past
"Go in a cave to get some hearts
Checking out those fairies parts
It smells a bit like juicy farts
But thats the price to not restart
As a kid, I remember making up words for the Sonic 1 bonus stage,
"It keeps on turning, and turning, and turning. It just keeps on turning, and turning aroooound."
I actually already do something like this when I'm ad-libbing lyrics when I sing along to video game tunes or whatever. For some reason, I don't know why, my go-to dummy lyrics usually tend to involve "chewing" and "chicken".
So with that, let's do the Super Mario Bros. theme:
Chewing on a big CHICK-en!
Chew-ing on a big chicken
Chewing on a big chicken, and bacon.
Chewing on a big ol' chewy chicken, and ba-con.
Chicken, bacon, and moldy dog food
Chewing it in my mouth
Chicken, bacon, and moldy dog food.
Chewing chicken and BA-con!
Thank you for making me laugh :)
@@King-ty7mz I'm glad my weird mind can bring someone else entertainment!
When I'm writing something, I pick a few themed words, and pick a matching rhyme with it and then everything else is gibberish. later I turn those nonsense lines into actual sentences. A song about space can very easily contain the words 'stars' and 'mars'. How convenient that they already rhyme:
Yadda dadda boopadee mars
Shooby dooby boopadee stars
can then become:
Let's take a shuttle to Mars
On a scenic route full of stars.
In Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, there's a song that was cut from the final edit. Because it's in the style of an old kung fu movie, they filmed the cast singing the dummy lyrics to be dubbed over later with the "real" song. Both versions are in the DVD extras and iirc the dummy was about news anchor Sam Donaldson and how great his hair looks.
Whenever I hum a melody without lyrics and I find myself adding nonsense lyrics I always go "I've got a gun" with additional adjectives as needed by the melody, like "I've got a mighty big gun."
Be careful about those tunes on airplanes.
@@tracyblanchard7663 Funnily enough, the reason I use that lyric in particular is due to me at one point having created lyrics about a fictional hostage situation, which started with the lyric "I've got a gun.".
This is actually a really great tip, not just for musicians and lyricist, but poets as well. There’s always a rhythm to poetry, but sometimes some things that come to mind at the moment don’t fit in said rhythm. So thank you so much for sharing this because it’s an excellent tip for my poetry writing!
I listened to chemical plant zone to make dummy the first thing that came to my mind was
"I. Had. Sex... In-a City Bus-Stop."
I'm scared of my own mind now.
Terminator Drums:
I WANT TA-CO BELL
I WANT TA-CO BELL
I WANT TA-CO BELL
I WANT TA-CO BELL
I know it's not the same thing, but it felt fitting to mention, that I way too often will sing the following
The moral of this fable
is do not eat a bable
cause they'll become your fraidl one dreidl
More on the subject: I've been doing this my entire life. Sometimes with actual words, and other times just some kind of semilogically constructed sequence of syllables that mimic the rise and fall in melody, and or the percussive feel.
Thanks for giving me a word for it!
In the song "A Weekend In the Country" from "A Little Night Music" there's a section where everyone is singing something different at the same time. I couldn't understand what they were all saying, so I used to sing "Flaversham, Flaversham, Flaversham" for that section. Flaversham is the last name of the little girl from "The Great Mouse Detective."
Also even though I opened this tab a couple days ago, today CZcams recommended a parody of the FF8 battle theme called "Water and Water and Water Water" I bet you can't guess what the full lyrics were.
I know of these only because I looked up the lyrics of Nik Kershaw's The Riddle, and the reason it sounds like nonsense is because he kept the dummy lyrics in the final product. It went from just a song I love to one of my all time favorites.
"Near a tree by a river there's a hole in the ground, where an old man of Aran goes around and around..."
I’m still uncertain how Brent feels about Fall Guys...
I think his view is that it's a repetitive game, but I could be wrong. He wasn't exactly clear.
Looks like they forgot to replace the dummy lyrics in the Megaman cartoon.
I'm surprised you didn't bring up your buddy Dave, the absolute king of dummy lyrics-- what he wrote to get the Ocarina of Time with Lyrics song started is out of this world!
This reminds me of when I was younger, after reading "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" and hearing "Yes We Have no Bananas", I came up with the following lyrics for the competitive multiplayer mode BGM for Emerald Hill Zone:
"Do you have bananas in your cup? / Yes I most certainly do not! / Do you have bananas in your cup? / Yes I most certainly do not! / Do you have Bananananas? / Do you have Bananananas? (bananas bananas) / Do you have Bananananas?"
Interesting stuff! Thanks for the vid Brent!
Bells, frogs, bing, cherries, jingle bells, magic cheese, SEPHIROTH
Back in 2000, while playing Mario 64 for the first time, i was in bob-omb battlefield. The music playing as great as we all know. Then when the "buh-dum-buh buh-dum-buh" cam in, my brain processed it as "a ok, a ok, b ok b ok". Keep in mind i was 5 at the time. Sometimes i still hear it like that.
That is not the only one I came up with. Paper Mario has a track called March Ahead and in similar fashion to my previous example.
Its a paper game
Its a paper game
Its a paper game
Its a paper game
Its a paper, paper game
The other part is a phrase i don't remember ending with "sing along"
Also from paper mario, on the way to the castle i heard "we're gonna see the princess" repeatedly
My first experience with dummy lyrics (at least consciously) was with the song The Riddle by Gigi D'agostino. I don't know if this is true or just a rumor, but supposedly he came up with the melody and then wrote dummy lyrics for it so he didn't forget it. But then he ran out of time with his producer so he released the song with the dummy lyrics. And I love it! The song has such a dreamlike nonsense quality and I remember it to this day.
Really love these videos ngl.
I love all this cool insight
I don’t know what to say, what to say, what to saaay. (To the tune of LoZ Faerie Fountain)
Here's a story about a dummy lyric. I can't remember what musical theatre book I read this in. There was a show called "Call Me Madam" starring Ethel Merman. The lyricist wrote a dummy lyric for the song "The Hostess With the Mostess' on the Ball" and continued working on it. One day he came running in, yelling "I've done it! I finally perfected the lyric!" And Merman responded, "Sorry, it's cemented" and she sang the dummy lyric for the entire run of the show.
That repetitive game song sounds pretty good, I might go listen to it
Okay. Dummy lyrics, huh? This always came to mind:
Doom doom da-doom da-doom da-doom da-doom-doom
Doom doom da-doom The Theme from Doom.
Doom doom da-doom da-doom da-doom da-doom-doom
Doom doom da-doom The Theme from Doom.
Doom doom da-doom da-doom da-doom da-doom-doom
Doom doom da-doom The Theme from Doom.
Doom doom da-doom da-doom da-doom da-doom-doom
Doom doom da-Dalalalalalalalalala...
have you heard the dummy lyrics to the theme of sonic heroes?
I also replied to that tweet emphasizing that repetitiveness was the point of both the song and the game :P
I'm surprised that you didn't mention the dummy lyrics from Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson that made it into the final song.
My notifications has not been working great video brent
Written long, long ago for the Elec Man theme from Mega Man:
Secret Spaces
Secret Places
Secret Spaces for you...
Food Emporium!
pas
cal
pas
cal
this is the theme of
pas
cal
actually these lyrics kick ass
So this is a process of making mondegreens before you have actual lyrics to misremember and mangle?
Star Wars!
Look at the star wars,
Distant and far wars
Off in the sky!
Star Wars!
So many star wars,
Really bizarre wars,
I don't know why!
When the world has given you a packet of flour for lunch,
That is when you make a batch of PANCAKES ...
And it seems my enemies have beaten me to the punch
But I'll try and try again until it breaks!!!
(I have a cat named Arnold ...)
Final Fantasy IV main theme to spoony lyrics:
How could things be thaaat hard,
When you have to pretend to be a bard?
Where has all my skill gone?
When it’s not all that hard to write a song?
...I’m wrong...so long! ♬
I do this allll the time. I got asked what I was doing or saying so frequently that I just made up my own name for it. I just tell everyone I'm badoopin'. Or Badoop-a-dooping.
Sometimes I just rhyme the word/line with itself until I can figure out an actual rhyme to use. I'm not sure if that's exactly a dummy lyric but it's a trend I tend to follow. I'm still new to this though.
You brought up another point I've been wondering about lately. Having repetitive lines. There's songs (Like your Fall Guys With Lyrics) that repeat the same words in a row. It's catchy and it works. There's also songs where there is a repeating chorus and then only a few other lines. Like Thunder by Imagine Dragons. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. I don't know if that's coming across like I mean it to but if does... Do you have any tips on balancing that?
I’d have to think about it but my initial gut reaction is there’s no science to it, you just have to examine your choices. Though generally all the choruses in a song should at least share some words with each other.
The dummy in the thumbnail looks like a spitting image puppet
Everyone knows the licc, right?
"Everyone should buy Brent's game!"
I read that to the tune of the Eddsworld theme.
Time to get good at mad verse city!
2:04 what song does this sound EXACTLY like? This is gonna drive me nuts, and no I have never played fall guys.
grate vid
If you are an jazz musician you would call those dummy lyrics scat
I like stinky chicken (stinky good)
I like stinky chicken (in the mood)
I like chicken stinky (stinky good)
I like chicken stinky (neighborhood)
Baba doo wap, bah day ow wap, bah day beebidu-wap bap dap wap bap dap
(Mario underground)
“Table, table table table table table”
Did you make it out of clay?
@@mattwo7 was a “system of a down- chop suey” joke
I had an idea for Weird Al based on Smurfs & Eifel65's Blue Da Ba Dee
I'm a Smurf if I were Green I would Dye
If I were Pink, I would Dye
If I were Red, I would Dye
If I were Yellow, I would Dye
If I were Purple, I'd Dye...
Ryus theme
Iiiiii will keep on punching people til
Im a big strong tall sexy man
Yeah thats the plan
yes really
and tatsumaki
minecraft parodies are still a thing in current year+6?
Yes
This is the Hy-rule song
Yes it's the Hy-rule song
Now I cannot think
Of anything else to sing
And that's because
I'm not
A lyricist
And so I think
I'll leave this to Brentalfloss
His song is so
Much better than mine
...and I'm just gonna stop right there. I'm not even sure that all lines up properly.
mana mana, doo doo doo doo doo
I gotta go!!
I gotta go and take a pee
I gotta go!!
Or else it will leak out of me
Dude, there's nothing wrong with your cover of Ken's theme. You were doing a parody of the character that re-wrote him as excessively douchey. You can't vocally portray douchey character traits without saying some douchey things.
Super Mario 1-1
Brentalfloss did it first! But/
I don't care I need to learn how/
To make phrases that fit the music