Naming your songs

[OllieScott]

Something that always takes me a while is naming a song. Becomes easier if there's a vocal sample in there, because unusually I can just name it after that. But when the song is just instrumental, I can never think a interesting name for it.

Anyone got any tips for this?

[oprs]

first thing that comes to mind ussually.
dont over think it. just roll with the punches

[Dystinkt]

go down the humorous route i.e smack your bitch up, benga outdid himself naming that tune.

[Gewze]

how does it make you feel, what were the inspirations for the track bla bla

[Gurnumsbug]

I have an iPhone so there's that little notepad app, and when I feel inspired or hear someone say something semi-intelligent I like to type it down for future reference

[drooka]

dont over think it. just roll with the punches

do you suppose thats what peverelist did?

[oprs]

aha touche sir.

[djake]

I cant usually think of something pretty quickly, it just takes a second to examine my day and sum up the day with a few words.

But sometimes i dont want a track title to mean anything or have words, so i just smash the keyboard.

[ComfiStile]

This here track in my sig was name in a spur of the moment type thing.

I first off decided to call i kaleidoscope. But I couldn't spell it so i googled my interpretation of it. So it comes up saying 'did you mean...' and a phonetic spelling of it. The phonetic spelling looked cool so I just took that and tada!

[FuzionDubstep]

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[1point5]

normally the first thing that pops into my head, i've given up spending ages trying to think of names. You get used to bad names after a while and then they don't seem bad haha

[Sine69]

I just think of random shit. For example, my tunes are named: Mello Yello, Rawr, NDT, and Sidechain Everything

It's usually just something random I pick before I upload it

[Mammoth]

Sidechain Everything

Yes.

[hutyluty]

i only properly name tunes when theyre good enough to render out of reason, all my project files are called afdkb;akb or something which is a bugger if i want to work on them again

i'll usually name it after something which goes with the feeling of the track ugetme, what it reminds me of or what i was thinking abou when i did it

[DubMikey]

Play the song leaned back and call it whatever it reminds you off.

[wormcode]

Works in progress usually have the first word that comes to mind, or whatever subject was relevant for that day.
I get a lot of names and words from books though. Whenever I'm reading books I usually highlight stuff in the book either because I want to look into the subject later or really like the word/phrase.

Best tip I can give on this though is avoid at all costs naming tunes stuff like wanki10293iu, blah2uh2ub3 etc.
You'll never find them again when you want to! haha. I've lost a lot of stuff like that when I used to do it.

[1point5]

Best tip I can give on this though is avoid at all costs naming tunes stuff like wanki10293iu, blah2uh2ub3 etc.
You'll never find them again when you want to! haha. I've lost a lot of stuff like that when I used to do it.

hah this has happened to me so many times, i've spent wayy too long looking for old projects

[jrisreal]

But sometimes i dont want a track title to mean anything or have words, so i just smash the keyboard.

My latest track was named hbjlkjhvklugvul until I changed it to asdf

[SLASH]

I name by date mostly like 021911 so i can also tell when I made it, but when I put em on SC I change the name to what fits the song which can create confusion so I keep my original wav in my possession named TheHunt021922 so i can remember what session it came from. All of my TV score tracks are named TVmusic 1, 2, 3, etc... if I show them to people or email then its called TVM1 ...etc...

[fragments]

Not that I ALWAYS work this way...but about half the time I will just be letting my mind wander and think of a phrase or a word or whatever and think..."huh...that'd be an awesome name for a tune" then musical ideas for the tune will start going off (I ought to take notes on these, but usually don't)...then I go make the tune that fits that title ASAP after I think this all up...I'm the only one that does this?