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Writing songs on the keyboard or piano.<\/b><\/p>\n
As a song writer, you will always end up with a method that works best for you, whether or not you learn the art of songwriting from a professional songwriter.<\/p>\n
I can only speak from my own experience as far as songwriting is concerned, so for myself, playing the guitar and a little piano has helped a lot in my own personal style of songwriting.<\/p>\n
For someone just starting out with songwriting, I would suggest buying a small keyboard to help get ideas down.<\/p>\n
The nice thing about the piano or keyboard is that if you stick to the key of C, the chords are very easy to play.<\/p>\n
Another very usable feature for writing songs on the keyboard is the auto accompaniment function. Setting a good beat and style for a song before you write it can work very nicely towards getting inspired.<\/p>\n
A note of caution though, is to remember not to use the one finger feature when creating chords, as you won’t know what it is that you played.<\/p>\n
Why I write songs on the guitar.<\/b><\/p>\n
The main reason why I write songs on a guitar is because that’s my main instrument. Many people who play guitar, even if they are novices at it, somehow, like myself, seem to prefer it as a song writing tool.<\/p>\n
As a fairly advanced guitarist, and I’m not trying to blow my own trumpet here, heck, I don’t even own a trumpet.<\/p>\n
Okay, where was I now?<\/p>\n
Oh yes, I can use guitar riffs, off beats and various other little music nuances to really get the song happening.<\/p>\n
I guess what I’m trying to say is that it really helps to have a good mastery of the instrument when writing songs.<\/p>\n
Be that as it may, the essence of a good song, and I’m talking from a commercial appeal point of view, is good melody, chords that sit nicely on the ear (no funny pictures please) and a good beat.<\/p>\n
How to write lyrics.<\/b><\/p>\n
Now this is the real scary part, mostly because a lot of people thing they are good lyricists, when in fact they aren’t.<\/p>\n
I need to make a very clear distinction here between poetry and song lyrics. They are not the same.<\/p>\n
The thing with song lyrics is that they don’t have to be that good, they still need to be meaningful though.<\/p>\n
Good song lyrics communicate a feeling or concept in easily understandable words that have a tendency towards rhyme.<\/p>\n
Writing lyrics for songs is a bit of a black art, if you ask me. Listen to the greatest lyricists of our time, and try to get a feel for what they did that was so powerful.<\/p>\n
One thing that they do very effectively is communicate. Listen to Bob Dylan, he’s very clever and a natural.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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