Songwriting legend Noel Gallagher speaks to Ian Wright about how he goes about writing a song…
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West Coast native J Doe has been responsible for many of the hits we have heard over the last few years but now J Doe is looking to come from behind the pen. Serving as a songwriter for Sevyn Streeter, Jamie Foxx, Tank, Ariana Grande and J Lo just to name a few, J Doe explained his road transforming from a songwriter being behind the scenes to an artist shining in the limelight.
Edwin’s Top 50 Songwriting Tips
01 Boxify your titles
02 12 Box Your Album
03 Album Per Quarter
04 Moodboard
05 In Parallel, Several on the Boil
06 Partial Rhymes
07 Interesting Time Signature
08 Spotlights
09 Accidental Note
10 Accidental Chord
11 Sing! No Instrument or Chords
12 Speech-Derived Rhythm
13 Try a Mode
14 Improvisation from a standard
15 Write down the melody notes
16 Placeholder Nonsense Words
17 Minor
18 Same Chords Verse and Chorus
19 Octave Melody
20 Break
21 Pedal Tones / Drone
22 Penta No 2nd/6th m or no 4th/7thM
23 Rearrange Guitar / Volume whilst singing
24 Looping and NoodleComping
25 Dreams
26 Use a Cool Chord: mM7, mM9, 11, Slash
27 Use an Even Cooler Chord: 7b5, 7#9, 7+, 6/9
28 FEEL IT!
29 First Touch, First Word
30 Short Intro / Chorus First
31 Every 5 Seconds
32 Ditch a Verse or two / Over-write
33 No Chorus
34 Try a Key Change
35 Hybridise Two Styles / Change a Song’s Style
36 Ventilated Rhythm
37 Dynamics, Light and Shade
38 Make the Chorus a Verse
39 Alt Tuning
40 Children’s Song
41 Riff / Motif
42 Through-Composed
43 LandSong
44 Lyrics First
45 Poem
46 Instrumental Chorus
47 Congruency Test
48 Eyebrows / Ham it UP
49 Audience Participation
50 Object Writing / Object Poeming
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