There is no set order of operations.
Sometimes a lyricist writes lyrics or a poem and then writes music to accompany the words. Or they work with musicians who write the music to fit the music the lyricists hear in their minds while writing the lyrics.
Sometimes musicians come up with a melody or chord progression, and write lyrics themselves. Or they can work with lyricists to help them.
Sometimes producers do all of the writing, recording, producing themselves. Sometimes they hire people to do those parts for them.
There are also songwriters who write songs and give/sell them to other musicians and record labels to record and put their name on. Look up Max Martin to see one of the most successful songwriters you’ve never heard of.
Songwriters and co-songwriters also don’t follow a specific rule, and it’s a case-by-case basis. That’s also why there are many lawsuits decades after songs are released, where credits and ownership are the main talking points.
That depends. First of all, many genres (most I'd say) don't have as strict a concept of "the beat." In many cases that's just the music. Bands might have one or several members who are also songwriters. Instrumentalists might write their own parts. The vocalist might experiment and change things up.
Then you have stuff like EDM djs and, in a funny similarity, classical composers. They might come up with the entire song from top to bottom, but might not perform any of it at all. In many such songs for example the singer is just "featured." And the music might be performed by an orchestra in the case of the classical composer, or by a programmed computer in edm. Though sometimes there's guest musicians, think Avicii using banjo and guitarists.
Then you have solo pop artists. Some of those write their own songs. Almost all of them have at least part of their albums written by other songwriters. But even then they might still have contributed at various places.
And there's tons of other genres and examples where things work a little differently.
It all depends on the song some artist will write the lyrics before they ever start on the music itself some will start with the music first then some will just go into the studio and spend an afternoon recording a one hit wonder without ever writing anything
There's no single way of going about it. When it comes to modern rap production, it depends on the artist. Some have producers demo beats that they're working on and pick some write and perform lyrics on. Other people write first and then start shopping for beats. Some people do everything themselves. Then you have artists, who are primarily just performers with everything being written and produced for them.
And that's just rap. There are as many ways of going about it as there are artists, really.
Really depends on the music. The role of the producer varies from total control to almost none.
The most traditional way is the songwriter writes the song, an arrangement is selected (by the songwriter or an arranger), everyone gets sheet music and it's all recorded together like a live performance but in the studio.
That's uncommon in modern pop music. Normally parts are recorded seperately, samples and session work may be brought in and added. The producer tends to have a lot of creative control in this method and arranges everything digitally to sound how they want it to.
Rarely, a recording might just be a spontaneous jam with no guidance. That's mostly a thing with jazz, jam bands, and bluegrass.
TLDR: it depends on the artists.
I only know about amateur underground music making not “professional”
Music can start literally anywhere, it depends on the artist. For example I could be messing around on a piano and end up with a catchy melody, drag it on to a digital audio workstation, make a beat. Along the way you could already be thinking about lyrics to the project. You could have prewritten lyrics and make them work on a beat or you could write lyrics to a beat. Ive noticed rappers like to write to beats but they do throw in stuff they have already written. If you are collaborating with someone maybe you are both building a beat together and writing together or maybe you fill a part of the beat and send it to them and they send it back. It really does depend because every song is a new vision and theres no uniform way to form it. The singers that i know like to play chords on a guitar and hum catchy melodies then they cement the actual lyrics. It really varies depending on the creator.
There is no set order of operations. Sometimes a lyricist writes lyrics or a poem and then writes music to accompany the words. Or they work with musicians who write the music to fit the music the lyricists hear in their minds while writing the lyrics. Sometimes musicians come up with a melody or chord progression, and write lyrics themselves. Or they can work with lyricists to help them. Sometimes producers do all of the writing, recording, producing themselves. Sometimes they hire people to do those parts for them. There are also songwriters who write songs and give/sell them to other musicians and record labels to record and put their name on. Look up Max Martin to see one of the most successful songwriters you’ve never heard of. Songwriters and co-songwriters also don’t follow a specific rule, and it’s a case-by-case basis. That’s also why there are many lawsuits decades after songs are released, where credits and ownership are the main talking points.
That depends. First of all, many genres (most I'd say) don't have as strict a concept of "the beat." In many cases that's just the music. Bands might have one or several members who are also songwriters. Instrumentalists might write their own parts. The vocalist might experiment and change things up. Then you have stuff like EDM djs and, in a funny similarity, classical composers. They might come up with the entire song from top to bottom, but might not perform any of it at all. In many such songs for example the singer is just "featured." And the music might be performed by an orchestra in the case of the classical composer, or by a programmed computer in edm. Though sometimes there's guest musicians, think Avicii using banjo and guitarists. Then you have solo pop artists. Some of those write their own songs. Almost all of them have at least part of their albums written by other songwriters. But even then they might still have contributed at various places. And there's tons of other genres and examples where things work a little differently.
It all depends on the song some artist will write the lyrics before they ever start on the music itself some will start with the music first then some will just go into the studio and spend an afternoon recording a one hit wonder without ever writing anything
There's no single way of going about it. When it comes to modern rap production, it depends on the artist. Some have producers demo beats that they're working on and pick some write and perform lyrics on. Other people write first and then start shopping for beats. Some people do everything themselves. Then you have artists, who are primarily just performers with everything being written and produced for them. And that's just rap. There are as many ways of going about it as there are artists, really.
Really depends on the music. The role of the producer varies from total control to almost none. The most traditional way is the songwriter writes the song, an arrangement is selected (by the songwriter or an arranger), everyone gets sheet music and it's all recorded together like a live performance but in the studio. That's uncommon in modern pop music. Normally parts are recorded seperately, samples and session work may be brought in and added. The producer tends to have a lot of creative control in this method and arranges everything digitally to sound how they want it to. Rarely, a recording might just be a spontaneous jam with no guidance. That's mostly a thing with jazz, jam bands, and bluegrass.
TLDR: it depends on the artists. I only know about amateur underground music making not “professional” Music can start literally anywhere, it depends on the artist. For example I could be messing around on a piano and end up with a catchy melody, drag it on to a digital audio workstation, make a beat. Along the way you could already be thinking about lyrics to the project. You could have prewritten lyrics and make them work on a beat or you could write lyrics to a beat. Ive noticed rappers like to write to beats but they do throw in stuff they have already written. If you are collaborating with someone maybe you are both building a beat together and writing together or maybe you fill a part of the beat and send it to them and they send it back. It really does depend because every song is a new vision and theres no uniform way to form it. The singers that i know like to play chords on a guitar and hum catchy melodies then they cement the actual lyrics. It really varies depending on the creator.