This songwriting guide is a great way to ensure you come up with a huge amount of songs! You'll find following these methods will yield a huge amount of ideas and more completed songs than ever before. The most important thing to remember here is that you must completely ignore your inner critic, do not under any circumstances think to yourself "Hmmm, this idea is no good" no matter how you feel about it, keep writing and moving forward.
Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind as a songwriter is to not let your inner critic paralyze your creativity. The moment you have a negative thought, banish it to the back of your mind and just keep writing and pushing on! This method is all about generating as many ideas as you can, quality control comes later.
TECHNIQUE ONE: Create a chord sequence or riff on your instrument of choice, either loop it on your computer or just play it over and over while improvising lyrics and melodies over the top. Your aim here is to come up with as many ideas for your melody as you possibly can, don't worry about whether your lyrics make sense or not, you can redraft those later. I usually don't stop until I've come up with at least 10 or more ideas.
TECHNIQUE TWO: Find a drum or percussion loop and write as many different songs as you can over the top of it. Vary your chords and riffs and really try to make each attempt different to the last. Again I aim for 10 as a minimum
The best songwriting guide to follow is to create as many ideas as you can. Once you've finished your songwriting session, give it a day or two then go back to your ideas to edit them. Chances are you'll end up with a few finished songs straight away, the rest of your ideas you can refer to later. You'll find songs you write in the future will heavily feature ideas you came up with months or even years before!
This site is geared toward giving you the tools you need to be a great songwriter.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Friday, July 13, 2007
All Eyes on The Song
Song writing is a tricky animal that sometimes can fool you. Most songwriters or composers forget the key elements in songwriting, and that is to make the song so visual that you can see it in your sleep. I think when you write a song you must look at where people are in there life, and whether or not they have need, and use for the song you have created. For example, Marvin Gaye has several songs that stood the test of time like "Whats going on and Sexual healing"are two of my favorite. No matter what age or color these two songs don't ever seem to grow old with people, because the songs where written with you in mind. Songwriting is like speaking life into people that are dead. You can energize a person with words so surely you can do it with a song. The First step in songwriting in brainstorming about your idea. You need to put as many things on paper about your song as you can think of that will help you. Secondly, after your ideas are down then you need to begin to shape those ideas into some sort of content that is readable by the public. Thirdly, once you have got your ideas and content together then comes the order of things. Placing things in order is important to the reader so they can walk with you every step of the way. Finally, add any metaphors that will make the song rememberable by having your favorite saying, or someone elses favorite saying you know something people can relate too.
I am Cool Water the rapper,actor, author of two many things name. The next time you write a song make sure all eyes are on the page.
thank you
You got to learn the system to be successful
at anything.
http://www.ugot2learnthesystem.citymax.com/
I am Cool Water the rapper,actor, author of two many things name. The next time you write a song make sure all eyes are on the page.
thank you
You got to learn the system to be successful
at anything.
http://www.ugot2learnthesystem.citymax.com/
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