You start with the lyrics!!!

First:

1) Do you have an idea? do you have a message? or you want to write anything for the sake of writing?

2) You make sure your lyrics ryhme. If they do not, you need to work hard on them...

3) you then need to make sure the phrases are rythmically balanced and well-structured.

It must read like good ol' poetry.

After that:

4) you read it several times and you embrace its ideas, words, rythem and ryhme. (better write something good, otherwise, you will be embracing something BAD and harmful to your health).

5) you set with your musical instrument and before you TOUCH the chords, you start composing the melody line. Think big, think wide and PLEASE!!!!!!!! drop that major scale.

6) then you worry about the structure of the melody, ABBA? ABCA? ABABCCC? whatever

7) then you finalize the melody line by defining the ending of phrases, beats between chorus, type of bridge...

8) FINALLY, you worry about chords or mutliple harmony parts with base and others.

Then you move from composition to arranging.... and then you worry about BEATS and what have you.


Good luck.