{"id":10311,"date":"2020-08-16T23:21:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T23:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/16\/edwins-top-50-songwriting-tips-2\/"},"modified":"2020-08-16T23:21:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T23:21:14","slug":"edwins-top-50-songwriting-tips-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/16\/edwins-top-50-songwriting-tips-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin&#8217;s Top 50 Songwriting Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JC7deNm8wLI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Edwin&#8217;s Top 50 Songwriting Tips<\/p>\n<p>01 Boxify your titles<br \/>\n02 12 Box Your Album<br \/>\n03 Album Per Quarter<br \/>\n04 Moodboard<br \/>\n05 In Parallel, Several on the Boil<br \/>\n06 Partial Rhymes<br \/>\n07 Interesting Time Signature<br \/>\n08 Spotlights<br \/>\n09 Accidental Note<br \/>\n10 Accidental Chord<br \/>\n11 Sing! No Instrument or Chords<br \/>\n12 Speech-Derived Rhythm<br \/>\n13 Try a Mode<br \/>\n14 Improvisation from a standard<br \/>\n15 Write down the melody notes<br \/>\n16 Placeholder Nonsense Words<br \/>\n17 Minor<br \/>\n18 Same Chords Verse and Chorus<br \/>\n19 Octave Melody<br \/>\n20 Break<br \/>\n21 Pedal Tones \/ Drone<br \/>\n22 Penta No 2nd\/6th m or no 4th\/7thM<br \/>\n23 Rearrange Guitar \/ Volume whilst singing<br \/>\n24 Looping and NoodleComping<br \/>\n25 Dreams<br \/>\n26 Use a Cool Chord: mM7, mM9, 11, Slash<br \/>\n27 Use an Even Cooler Chord: 7b5, 7#9, 7+, 6\/9<br \/>\n28 FEEL IT!<br \/>\n29 First Touch, First Word<br \/>\n30 Short Intro \/ Chorus First<br \/>\n31 Every 5 Seconds<br \/>\n32 Ditch a Verse or two \/ Over-write<br \/>\n33 No Chorus<br \/>\n34 Try a Key Change<br \/>\n35 Hybridise Two Styles \/ Change a Song&#8217;s Style<br \/>\n36 Ventilated Rhythm<br \/>\n37 Dynamics,  Light and Shade<br \/>\n38 Make the Chorus a Verse<br \/>\n39 Alt Tuning<br \/>\n40 Children&#8217;s Song<br \/>\n41 Riff \/ Motif<br \/>\n42 Through-Composed<br \/>\n43 LandSong<br \/>\n44 Lyrics First<br \/>\n45 Poem<br \/>\n46 Instrumental Chorus<br \/>\n47 Congruency Test<br \/>\n48 Eyebrows \/ Ham it UP<br \/>\n49  Audience Participation<br \/>\n50 Object Writing \/ Object Poeming<\/p>\n<p>Many of these are Edwin&#8217;s ideas but a bunch are adapted and adopted from the following great people whom you should check out, many thanks to them:<br \/>\nBoo Hewerdine http:\/\/www.boohewerdine.net\/workshops.php<br \/>\nJoe Bennett http:\/\/www.uksongwritingfestival.com http:\/\/joebennett.net\/<br \/>\nPat Pattison https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/songwriting<br \/>\nGary Burton https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/improvisation<br \/>\nMichael Garrick RIP http:\/\/www.jazzacademy.co.uk<br \/>\nGary Ewer http:\/\/garyewer.wordpress.com<br \/>\nChris Difford http:\/\/www.chrisdifford.com\/<br \/>\nKarine Polwart http:\/\/www.karinepolwart.com<br \/>\nJuliet Russell http:\/\/www.londonsongcompany.com\/courses-mentoring\/#developing<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.fawm.org<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.napowrimo.net<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.landsong.org<\/p>\n<p>Songs quoted: <\/p>\n<p>Lonesome Woods sung by Andy Turner http:\/\/andyturner.bandcamp.com\/track\/through-lonesome-woods<br \/>\nKiss from a Rose by Seal http:\/\/youtu.be\/WstGYDZzH9g<br \/>\nUpside Down written by Nile Rodgers http:\/\/youtu.be\/4GtyMeEcPPE<br \/>\nGeorgie sung by Martin Carthy http:\/\/youtu.be\/9Aj_cEP-PdA<br \/>\nRather Be by Clean Bandit http:\/\/youtu.be\/m-M1AtrxztU<br \/>\nGet Lucky played by George Barnett http:\/\/youtu.be\/eohqIn6P-Yw<br \/>\nHappy by Pharrell Williams http:\/\/youtu.be\/y6Sxv-sUYtM<br \/>\nWalk the Line by Johnny Cash http:\/\/youtu.be\/k7K4jH7NqUw<br \/>\nChop Suey by System of a Down http:\/\/youtu.be\/CSvFpBOe8eY<br \/>\nChop Suey by Richard Cheese http:\/\/youtu.be\/hD0pjUwYIpU<br \/>\nFour Little Ants by Robyn Mackenzie 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