Category: Songwriting
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7 Mistakes to Avoid When Trying to Write a Hit Song
Writing a hit song is not an easy task. It will take time, effort, commitment, and lots of luck to make it happen. However, most musicians fail even to get started because they are waiting for inspiration and not intentional with their songwriting. If you don’t have general guidelines to develop your writing, you…
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How to analyze songs and why
A song is a bunch of elements composed in a specific way that creates what music we may love or may not. You can think of it as a cake, it has several layers, different ingredients and it has to be baked the right amount of time. You may be haven’t noticed, but you…
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11 Ways To Make Your Chord Progressions More Interesting
Writing chord progressions can be fun, but do you ever get stuck coming up with the same four chords? Breaking out of your old chord progression habits can be tricky, so here are 11 great ways to spice up your harmonies! Getting started If you don’t already have a chord progression in mind that…
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How to Write a Song: Why Writing IS Rewriting
How to write a song? Well, songwriting is one part creativity, one part craftsmanship. When you turn an idea into a song, the feeling is such a rush. Isn’t it enjoyable to sing it over and over again, to savor the feeling of creativity? Even though it feels great, we encourage you to think…
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How to Create a Song from a Chord Progression
How to create a song from a chord progression? If you’re like me, you have a few original chord progressions that just won’t leave you alone! When I sit down at my instrument, my ear gravitates towards these chords and puts them together in a certain way. While it feels good to jam on…
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How to write lyrics to a melody
How to write lyrics when all you have is just a good melody? As vocalists and/or instrumentalists, we each have melodic tendencies that naturally flow through us. Harnessing these creative ideas for songwriting may feel effortless – however, for many, writing song lyrics for those melodies is out of our comfort zone. While language…
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5 Reasons Why You Should Be Co-Writing Your Songs
Should you be co-writing your songs? Co-writing can be a great resource to any songwriter who is trying to up their game and penetrate their local music scene or the music business at large. Plus, it’s a fun and rewarding experience. Let’s take a look at 5 reasons why you should be co-writing songs:…
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How to Write A Melody For Your Song
You wrote beautiful lyrics but now wandering how to write a melody? Often, the story and message of a song are the most challenging to cultivate. Once you have the lyrical core of your song, the melody and music can be a vessel for meaning. Here are 4 great tips on how to write…
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3 Song Production Tricks To Help You Sell Your Songs
So you’ve written a song that has that special something? While a great song is timeless at its core, we live in a musical culture that requires us to place our amazing writing into a package that is appealing to the current trends. The ultimate question is – How to sell a song? Your…
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Songwriting Tips: How To Write a Song Like The Beatles [Part 1]
The Beatles are the heavyweight champion of modern songwriting and therefore a great subject for songwriting tips. Ask anyone who was around in the US and Europe from 1963-1970 (Yes, The Beatles were only a band for eight years!) and they will tell you how The Beatles changed everything. Since there are too many…
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