Juan Karlos: His Songwriting Process | Esquire Philippines - video Dailymotion

‘Most of the time, the song just pops up in my head.’ Juan Karlos takes us through his songwriting process.

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00:00Well, I mean, there's really no actual structure into making a song, at least for me.

00:05But all the songs just come into my head, usually melody first, sometimes lyrics first.

00:11If I just want to write something down, like a phrase or a thought or a topic, and then

00:15you start from there, that's like a seed that grows eventually, right?

00:20Most of the time, the song just pops up in my head and I'm like, okay, that's something.

00:25And then I grab an instrument and try to translate that in real life into something physical,

00:30like, okay, put it in a door and then start building from there.

00:35You know those Lego pieces that don't really have a build?

00:39It's just like Lego pieces, free-for-all, like universal Legos.

00:44It's just a bunch of Legos.

00:45And then you imagine something and then you use that to create that imagination as close

00:50as possible to what you imagined.

00:52It's basically just that.

00:54But yeah, melodies first most of the time.

00:57It's really the melodies first.

00:59My brain loves singing inside.