How To Write Great Songs Every Time

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!

Writing for the Unmotivated

In today's society, technology has made it easy for anyone to express themselves when it comes to writing. Apple has created new devices that allow one to speak into a computer and basically say whats on your mind. A device like this can help not only the bored writer,but the folks wit other physical challenges that may prevent them from writing.

Many artist journalist, and publishers are finding a new way of getting their message out to the world wit out all the work involved. You to can use self talking writing devices to help you get your message out.

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Globalization

Going global is the new slang for 08 and you not working on going global then you not working. Every song every beat made should be made withe the intention of getting into the international market. Many artist are marking a lot of money overseas. Social Networking is the key to starting globalization. Its a lot of people in the world so when from now on when you finish that song or that hot track you better start thinking I got to sale this all over the world.

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Making Money from Writing

As a writer myself you look to write things that will bring you money for your writing. When you complete a project there a several things you should look for that can bring you revenue from your writing. I will just share a few things that I think will help you exploit your talent. The first, is taking your songs and looking to my an e-book from your material. An e books give you revenue as an author which puts you into another category from the songs you wrote. You can take you songs and make a lyric book or poem book. Secondly, movies are always derived from a song or a book or some form of written work. Producers are always looking to get new material to turn into a movie. You could take some of your work and try to turn it into a script so it can be used a movie. Finally, the use of video is growing more and more if you haven't made some form of videos then you may want to consider that. Videos can be podcast and downloaded for a small fee to Ipod or what ever inorder for you to get money that way.

These are just a few ways to make money from your writing

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The Trick Is On Your Wallet

Wuz up everybody, I have been off the scene for a minute but I am back. I want to take a minute to talk about the artist Brittany Spears. Brittany is planning something big and you will be the victim of juiced up media mind confusing game that has kept you glued to the Tv for almost a year. Someone wrote the script for this story on how Brittany is making her come back. I saw on the front page of MSN that Brit was doing dance rehearsals for her upcoming show. Her album will have the best songwriters in the business to make sure she gets a good point across for the album to sale. Brittany to my knowledge is not a great writer. When her albums drops it will sale like crazy because of the hype and all the bullshit that she has went through. At the end of the day the songwriting will be what carries everything over.

The Jokes on You

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Get it Right

Learning how to write takes some real practice, and thought if your not already doing it. Many people who write songs just write off the cuff, and never really use the elements of writing to make the song a master piece. Brainstorming is needed to write a song with no boundaries. After that is the rough draft phase where you start to organize the writing process, so you can see your ideas on paper. Finally, is final draft which brings everything together and allows you to make the picture thats needed to sing your song. When writing take these things into account and you should always get it right.

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How To Write Hit Melodies Prt 2

In writing a melody, it's critical to keep your audience surprised. Sincewe speak English in iambic pentameter, it's natural to assume we can writein the same meter. Unfortunately, it's deadly boring. So I suggest youdeliberately vary the lengths of your lines, and the number of notes ineach, along with the number of lines or bars per section, to avoid yoursong sounding predictable. After all, it's your job as an artist to tellyour audience something they aren't expecting. The range of most contemporary singers is an octave and three - theinterval from middle C, for example, to the E an octave above it. If youwrite a tune with a range greater than that, you'll be hard-pressed tofind a singer with the chops to handle it. My song, "An American Hymn",which I wrote with Lee Holdridge, was only recorded once in twenty yearsuntil Lee figured out how to revise the bridge melody, reducing our octaveand five to an octave and three. Now the song is recorded at least once amonth. Most hit "power" ballads, such as Daughtry's "Home," end their verses onnotes lower than the ones on which the choruses start. To create tensionand drama in their melodies, I urge my clients, and you, to go up into thechorus, not sideways or down. Doing the latter is like letting air out ofa tire. So go up and stay up. And although some contemporary songs breakthe rising-into-the chorus rule, you can bet their rhythmic hooks at thebeginning of and throughout the choruses are strong enough to overcome themelody's drop, and keep us listening. ~Molly-Ann Leikin (rhymes with bacon) is a song marketing consultant inCalifornia, who, for a modest professional fee, works one-on-one to helpyou find the right writing partner and then helps you market your finishedwork to all the right people. A Eurovision finalist (American Idol inEurope), Molly is the author of "How to Write A Hit Song, Fifth edition",(June, 2008) from which this article is excerpted, and "How to Be a HitSongwriter", both published by Hal Leonard. She has a house full of goldand platinum records plus an Emmy nomination, has written themes and songsfor over four dozen TV shows and movies, including "Eight is Enough" and"Violet" that won an Oscar. From the USA and Canada, you can reach Molly,toll-free, at 800-851-6588, or from anywhere in the world, atwww.songmd.com. Please note: Molly does not accept unsolicited material.© 2008 Songwriting Consultants, Ltd.

written Molly-Ann Leikin