{"id":9501,"date":"2018-12-06T16:59:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/06\/all-i-want-is-honesty-beartooths-caleb-shomo-talks-songwriting\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:59:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:59:35","slug":"all-i-want-is-honesty-beartooths-caleb-shomo-talks-songwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/06\/all-i-want-is-honesty-beartooths-caleb-shomo-talks-songwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAll I want is honesty\u201d\u2014Beartooth\u2019s Caleb Shomo talks songwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5oxst_A1mFE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>At 14-years-old, Beartooth\u2019s Caleb Shomo started his career when he joined as the keyboard player to his friends\u2019 \u201celectronic, weird\u201d band, but looking back at that time now, Shomo says he has grown into a completely different musician. He says he strives for honesty in his songs and rejects the idea of making music for the radio or singles designed to make money. CreativeLive sat down with Shomo to talk about his songwriting process and tips for aspiring writers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first I didn\u2019t really do much songwriting,\u201d Shomo says. \u201cI was 14, and some of my friends were like, \u2018Hey want to play keyboard in a band?&#8217;\u201d After leaving his childhood band, he started to work on his own music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted to do something complete opposite. I just wanted to make music that I knew was honest to me, that had no motivation other than writing good songs that I enjoyed,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Shomo often focuses on the build of a song, without lower points; there is nothing to build up tom, he says. \u201cI want to have it build up to just the biggest chorus ever, or the nastiest riff ever.\u201d But he says typically keeps a traditional pop-song formula. But if a song isn\u2019t stuck in his head, or playing on repeat, it won\u2019t make it on the album.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Shomo\u2019s interview to hear more about his musical upbringing, what he thinks makes a great song, and tips he has to start a song or get over writers block. \u2014Jake Hanson<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5oxst_A1mFE\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 14-years-old, Beartooth\u2019s Caleb Shomo started his career when he joined as the keyboard player to his friends\u2019 \u201celectronic, weird\u201d band, but looking back at [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,50,51,42,34,33,36],"tags":[124,2320,2319,2321,2322,2324,2323,270,263,2325,103,113,111,104,112,117,114,116,115],"class_list":["post-9501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creating-a-hit-song","category-how-to-write-soul-music","category-how-to-write-soul-music-songs","category-most-popular-soul-songwriters","category-motown-songwriters","category-r-and-b-songwriters","category-self-publish-songwriter","tag-124","tag-alternative-press","tag-altpress","tag-ap-magazine","tag-aptv","tag-beartooth-musical-group","tag-caleb-shomo-musical-artist","tag-creativelive","tag-interview","tag-metalcore-musical-genre","tag-songwriter","tag-songwriters-festival","tag-songwriting","tag-songwriting-contest","tag-songwriting-tips","tag-successful-songwriters","tag-writing-lyrics","tag-writing-lyrics-to-a-song","tag-writing-lyrics-to-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}