RPattz Songwriting Clinic: Just Emote

Could the cast of Twilight form their own band if they weren’t so busy shooting? Maybe.

Celebuzz did an interview with Mike Welch who plays Bella’s rejected human suitor in Twilight and New Moon. He talks about dancing, Chuck Norris and Vancouver, but MOST IMPORTANTLY–what musical creation cues he picked up from your beloved crooner Robert Pattinson. Oh, did you forget that he’s more than just an actor?

Celebuzz: You’re a drummer, and I know some of the other people play instruments like Rob and Jackson. Do you ever play together?

Mike: “It would be so cool if we would. I really think we should make a little twilight band because there are so many musicians. Justin and Anna are musicians, and like you said, Jackson and Rob, and I think Peter might be. At this point though I’ve seen Jackson’s band play a couple times sometimes he brings his guitar to se. Beyond that, Justin played me like an original song once that he’d like just finished writing, and Rob gave me really good like song writing tips. But as far as actually jamming together, we haven’t had a chance to do that yet, but I’m sure we will. We have to at this point.”

Celebuzz: What advice did Rob give you for writing songs?

Mike: “He said the way that he does it which really freed him up to write some really interesting stuff is that he picks a chord or just starts playing a melody of some kind, sees how it makes him feel emotionally, and then just kinda starts singing – not lyrics – but just kinda the foundation of what the lyrics would be… which is why his songs have that very specific feel where he’s kinda like, ‘Nyaah, moooaah, woooah.’ You know what I mean? That’s how he writes the songs. He just sort of feels, you know, picks a chord, see how he feels emotionally, just starts singing in gibberish, and then writes the lyrics on top of that, and I think it’s a really interesting way of going about it. I’ve never heard of somebody doing it that way before. I thought it was cool.”

Nyaah, moooaah, woooah? Sexy.