It’s funny, being a songwriter myself, I always find that writing songs can sometimes be a chore. But why does it feel this way? Isn’t this supposed to be my passion? Isn’t this supposed to be something that I never get bored of? This Article Will Show secrets in How to write songs
… well, not exactly. Everything gets boring once in a while, even the things that you’re most passionate about. So every so often I like to take the lazy man’s route to do things. And surprisingly, I often produce some very good results!
So listen up. If you newbie at songwriting, or even if you have been at it for a while — I’m going to a couple of simple tricks on How to Write songs, that will help you start the writing process within minutes.
Here we go…How to Write songs
1) Review a particular situation in your day. It could be at work, during your travels, or at home. It could be with your workmates, your family or your friends. Just any situation that affected you in either a positive or negative way.
An example of this would be “when you’re at work, your boss just keeps hounding you. But, the only thing that keeps you going throughout the day is that you know that somebody in the office has a crush on you”
(the above is a very dry example when it comes to How to Write songs… but try to work with me here!)
2) Write down as many words as you can think of that relate to your situation.
How to Write Songs: Let’s follow the example from earlier on:
anger, pain, sad, happy, excitement, nervousness, anxious, misery, impatience, relaxation, goofy, sophisticated, annoying, frustrating, antagonizing, fancy, sexy, cool, pretty, smile, etc, etc… you get the point 🙂
3) Write down random short sentences about your situation including the words that you mentioned to him step 2. So let’s continue with our little experiment…
“ the way he talked to me angers me”
“ if only he knew the pain I suffered inside”
“ When I see her pretty eyes light up it makes me smile”
“ I have to act cool and sophisticated — don’t want to get frustrated”
“ he doesn’t know what makes my day go by”
“ don’t want to be in this misery for much longer”
Etc, etc. at this point, it’s important to note that you don’t have to use all the words that you mentioned earlier in step two. As you can see I’ve even started to make up my lines *without* any of the words too! Sometimes, I’m rhyming the words without even realizing it. And this is exactly where the magic starts to happen…
You can easily turn this idea into a full-fledged song. Use rhymezone.com to help you find words that rhyme… and also other related words as well.
How to Write songs: My example was very average and simplified — but you can use an example that’s a little more dramatic. You should get wild with your ideas! Just let loose.
4) Listen to a ‘backing track’ (an instrumental of a song) that you have NO CLUE about. While it’s playing, make up a melody. Doesn’t have to be perfect, just create a melody on the fly. You don’t have to sing any lyrics either. Just ‘humm’ or ‘laaa’ a tune out until you’re heart’s content.
Why do this? This is an exercise that will subconsciously be preparing you to create melodies for your chord sequences in the next step.
5) Create a SIMPLE chord progression on the guitar or keyboard. When I say simple, I mean *simple*. Maybe TWO chords for the verse and TWO chords for the chorus. Now create a melody on top of that chord progression. Record the song on tape. There you have it.
NOTE: if you don’t play an instrument, then hook up with someone who does. After all, you pretty much have half the song now 🙂
Still, think it’s difficult conceiving an idea? Want to know more? I have *plenty more* that I want to share with you…
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