Is there a word for adding lyrics to a song that was originally instrumental?

Vocalization is the term that we’re gonna move forward with when we’re creating lyrics to some of our favorite instrumentals. It’s one of the foundations of creating music: determining the point when lyrics are added, and what to add exactly. This is a quality that easily falls in the responsibility of a great rapper.

TIP 1 – Place Your Rhyme

Placing your rhyme is what’s dependent on your flow state. If you reach this point, adding rhymes to the instrumental becomes much easier.

Have you ever heard a song where it felt like every word added was almost effortless and appropriate with each placement? That’s what a flow state could be equated to.

You’re going to be able to write rhymes for rap much better when you discover what puts you in your flow state.

There’s not much that can define it at a black and white level, but there’s things you can do to encourage a much likelier flow state.

You can do things like exercising to instrumentals through freestyling for example. That gets you in a flexible state lyrically.

TIP 2 – Fill In The Scat

The scat is nothing more than the filler for your lyrics. There’s usually punchlines placed at the end of a line and they typically prove to be the high point a song.

Finishing bars have an effect like none other because of how memorable they can shape up to be.

It’s not passionate to encourage anybody to try and just fill in lines with meaningless talk, but if the goal was to structure a complete rap song, this step clears up the confusion of getting from point A to B in lyric construction.

TIP 3 – Compromising

Compromising is another aspect of creating lyrics that’s not discussed enough. It’s a real scenario that many artists face.

You get placed in the position to share a bunch of meaningful messages, but only so many end up making the cut since you’re only working with a few minutes at best.

The time gets shorter when you’re only discussing features. Your step in this process becomes conflict management.

You have to start asking yourself the questions to move your focus along.

It might show in questions like “Does this really fit here?”, “Do I need to save this for a different instrumental?”, questions like that.

This is the point at when you are practicing compromise.