{"id":904,"date":"2013-09-29T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T03:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2013-10-19T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T00:58:24","slug":"matching-beats-to-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/matching-beats-to-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Matching Beats to Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The strength of each beat in the melodic line should determine how you set the lyrics to the music. Look at the relationship of each beat to the next; you may find that you will need to choose a shorter or longer word, depending on the song&#8217;s configuration.<\/p>\n<p>This may sound complicated, but it&#8217;s really a matter of looking at the beats and checking a thesaurus (or maybe a rhyming dictionary). If you&#8217;re trying to figure out <a href=\"http:\/\/songguru.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/matching-words-to-rhythm.html\">how to match words to rhythm<\/a>, this is really your best bet to having it all come together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/matching-beats-to-lyrics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-905\" alt=\"matching beats to lyrics\" src=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/matching-beats-to-lyrics.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/matching-beats-to-lyrics.jpg 500w, https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/matching-beats-to-lyrics-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strength of each beat in the melodic line should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips","category-uncategorized","tag-how-to-write-songs","tag-songwriting-tips-2","tag-ways-to-compose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-eA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}