The art of songwriting can take decades (if not a lifetime) but that doesn’t mean you can’t hammer out a quick one here and there. I went from being unable to write a song for almost a decade to regularly helping clients, students, and myself create numerous compositions. It just took some of the techniques I teach in this video to set my creativity free. Check out all my videos at: http://www.the-art-of-guitar.com
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  12. [Verse 1]

    Well here you come again and you're looking so fine

    You don't notice me but it's alright

    I'm just a guy who wishes that I could be your man someday

    Yeah a picture paints a thousand words, it's true

    But it's still not enough for how I feel about you

    I want to put you in a melody, I got to set you into a groove

    [Chorus 1]

    I want to put you in my car and drive

    And turn you up loud, roll down all the windows and shout it out

    I love this girl oh

    If I could press play, repeat how happy I'd be

    Wherever I'd go I'd have you there with me

    You'd be right where you belong

    I want to put you in a song, oh oh oh

    [Verse 2]

    Well I'd sing about your smile and your pretty blue eyes

    The way your hair shimmers in the sunlight

    It'd be so easy, I'd just write it from my heart

    Because I got to tell the world what you mean to me

    Wrap you up in a melody so you'll be

    Stuck in my head all day

    Because you're already there anyway, yes you are

    [Chorus 2]

    I want to put you in my car and drive

    And turn you up loud, roll down all the windows and shout it out

    I love this girl

    If I could press play, repeat how happy I'd be

    Wherever I'd go I'd have you there with me

    You'd be right where you belong

    I want to put you in a song

    [Bridge]

    And if I get it right everybody will be singing along yeah

    And when they see you on the street they'll say

    Hey aren't you the girl in that song

    [Guitar Solo]

    [Chorus 3]

    I want to put you in my car and drive

    And turn you up loud, roll down all the windows and shout it out

    I'm in love with this girl

    Yeah if I could press play, rewind a couple million times

    Imagine for a moment that you're all mine

    Every night I'd drive you home

    If I could put you in a

    Let me put you in a song

    Let me put you in a song

    Oh a pretty little song about you baby

    Keith Urban

  13. I have really gotten into bands like Periphery and Intervals. I am struggling with getting the song written. I'm not really worried about the solo/bridge. I have been listening for their structure of songs. I am stepping out of my Thrash and Hard Rock background. I feel I have a great beginning but stuck after that.

  22. I just subscribed to you because I played my guitar for two or three years then stopped because it got boring, how do you mute chords?
    Do you recommend writing it down if we won’t remember it?

  23. Funny that you mention the gibberish, random word thing. The first song I ever wrote I used "twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are, up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky" cause it fit perfectly into the verse phrasing, and then manipulated it little by little til I had my vocal melody for the song. This is a great technique.

  26. Thumbs Up for the books you mentioned. The Artists Way is such a great book. Still in week 6. 🙂 Checking the others out. Great video lesson. I am trying to make some guitar instrumental songs and this tutorial helped me out. Thanks.

  27. I'm writing a song right now. It's called
    So beautiful but Herpes is the friend for life ….it's about denying an amazing looking piece of ass because that's the one disease you will not chance.
    You say girl only during a breakout
    But hells no girl i can't pull my snake out
    You took the chances , you acted trife,
    Now you got herpese the FRIEND FOR LIFE.
    It'll be tough to find a man , your thinking you won't tell
    Do that shit honey , you'll burn in hell.
    You should of kept your chastity ,
    now your here girl pissed off and blasting me .
    Sorry girl but I'd rather jump on a knife
    Then end up with herpes the hot damd nasty shitty friend for life.
    Thank God we owned the local pharmacy
    God bless that computer cuz I could see
    Who was clean and who's nasty.
    Rather tie a rope around both my necks
    Than fill my own prescription for fuckin Valtrex….
    Now maybe some day they'll find a cure
    But till then honey over there's the door.
    Yeeehawwwwww

  35. Probably best to start simple. So many great songs are very simple, so start with that. Simple changes like a I IV V. So many great songs use this. Not hard to create a melody using them but hard to create a good melody that hasn't already been written.

  41. Thank you man, I just want to say I used your tutorial to write a song in memory of the most beautiful girl in the world … my late 6 years old daughter who passed away last October

    I call it “Leave your pain here with me” the song is on my channel you can check it if you want.

  47. “Gotta get through the foam to get to the good stuff”

    Going back to the Beatles that is entirely their discography. Put together their music is just decent, but pull out the good stuff and it’s some of the best songs ever written.

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