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The Songwriting Tip I Wish I Knew Earlier –
This tip would have saved me years of frustration in my songwriting process, had I understood it earlier. This tip will save you hours of wasted time and can give you a ton of clarity in your creative process. I hope you find it helpful! Cheers!

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43 Replies to “The Songwriting Tip I Wish I Learned Sooner”

  2. He’s absolutely right about not wasting time on poor ideas. but if you take 5 poor ideas to 5 different studios, across the country and never finish them, you’re living in a different America.
    The real secret, which I was hoping to hear from him, is that it’s almost always a muse. The songwriters who I hold in high regard, all say the same thing. It’s magic. It will sneak up on you, and if you forget it before recording it, it’s probably it’s ultimate fate. You can formulate it and advance analyze it all you want, but the dreamers are still hitting the same average

  3. I always have little ideas pop in my head while doing things and they go away within seconds and the creative burst only lasts like 2 mins. Only one time have I written a full song in less than 30 mins and it came out very good and I’m just wishing that would happen more often bc damn

  5. I just wrote what I think might be a 'hit love song'. What's special about it is "it is both super serious and a lil' tongue-in-cheek"

    They used to hide
    They're words
    Back in the day
    Rock n roll men
    Hid what
    They Had to say
    Using puns and
    clever word play
    To bypass censorship
    Back in the day
    But the rules on radio
    Are different now
    Is it better this way?~
    Everythings allowed…

    Drum fill
    Dun dun ~ dun,dunaduna, DUN.

    Chorus:
    I guess I kinda like you
    Yeah its implied by me penus
    points down
    I'm a stand up guy
    Yeah just like mah penus
    X2

    At some point a key change 2 semitones up for sure. With the chorus repeated. Right near the end.

    ~~~

    Whatchu other fellow artists thinking? ? please don't steal my content and art tho guys, its very much the deeply personal type of stuff to me. The kind that tortures my soul. Sizzles it. Fizzles it. (Ooo another song idea coming out just out of nowhere you see).

  6. As a beginning songwriter, this is the best tip I have watched! This and the Cowboy Jack Clements video "Shakespeare Was A Big George Jones Fan" in where he says 1. Experts are often wrong. 2.Experts tend to be narrow and overly opinionated 3.Reveal some of yourself in most of your songs 4.Write the worst song you can think of 5.A song gets better with age. And lastly he said, " It's okay to be fake, but it's NOT okay to be phony".

  9. I think everyone has their own method. Me personally I listen to songs while writing and things come to me. Like they said this this way but another way of saying that is like this.

  10. Personally I write songs on paper by putting words together and melodies then I sit down and revise it in the notes app on my phone it’s worked pretty darn well I’ve wrote more then 10 full songs that way and they all were decent as hell took me less then a day 🙂 but the biggest tip is to let what happens happen for example I sat down to write a “turn it up” feeling song and it ended up romantic and slow but it still is one of the best songs I wrote! Go with the flow If it’s meant to happen it will!

  12. Does anyone have advice on how to replenish creative energy? I stated production classes and after working my full time job, part time job, and school I have complete writer's block. It can stay like that for weeks which hinders songwriting time.

  13. Thank you, Patrick… yes, yes yes! we all must learn to allow a new idea
    to flow unedited, free-born, before our inner critic can strangle it. So we
    just write… free verse, without rhyme, SOConsciousness. Friends: Allow
    yourself to shape-shift stylistically. A good song is a good song
    regardless of genre or today's latest trend.

  15. How do you reframe your mindset on giving up on a song when you’re a rare writer. I go through bouts of not writing or coming up with anything for months, but then get an idea and follow it. Sometimes this makes it more difficult because I feel as if I don’t fully pursue that sole idea I had that I won’t work on anything else for months. Trying to break into the industry and this makes it difficult (not to mention being a solo artist)

  17. I literally discover interesting progressions, Jam them out a while till it sounds clear and save them. I'm not that experienced but I've come up with some bone shaking jam and really hope to put lyrics over them. I'm gonna have to make a new Google photos account bc im not tech savvy and honest to God don't know where to begin with documenting and saving my content for myself. I come up with the kind that's memorable to my mind and words do flow but to an extent. Frustrating but I pray it'll come to life for me later on. My pap says always always save my ideas bc they can materialize 10 years from now. Funny you mention John mayer my babe is heady deady and we have gone to see dead and co. Lol.

  28. My question is: how come that every schmuck doing music has already got 20.000 dollars of music equipment and a detached house with no neighbours? How do you reach this privileged position? is it legacy? is it lottery? is it welfare?

  41. I’m gonna be 110% honest I am struggling artist in development and I’ve been sitting on these demos for what seems like forever and I’ve been trying to figure out how to make songs that I write flow sound like I know what I’m talking about and rhyme those are my three big problem areas but watching this video kind of gave me some hope thanks man

  43. a good tip is if you are wanting to write a song about a real life problem that is happening to you or someone you know, everyday if something happens that has to do with the song you are wanting to write about, you can write on your notes app about what happened and once you have a lot you can make a melody and put it together to make a song

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