Great songs aren’t usually conjured from the void in their finished form — they’re sculpted and created with perseverance and care. If you expect your song will arrive fully formed, you’re doing your art a disservice. Take some time and work at it.
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Even if working with others isn’t your thing, you should step outside your comfort zone and give it a try. Collaboration opens horizons and will help introduce fresh new ideas into your songwriting process. SongRegistration.com
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Repetition is an incredibly important songwriting technique. When it’s executed properly, your instrumental ideas, melodic motifs, chord progressions, and lyrics can all really pop.
(And don’t forget to preserve your song copyright.)
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At some time in your career as a songwriter, you’ll probably realize you’re using a similar chord progression in multiple different songs you’ve written. If you change up your chord voicings (i.e. using a shifted register), though, you’ll be able to make your songs sound different.
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How do you gain (and sustain) an audience’s attention? By some estimations, you really only have 10 seconds to captivate a new listener, so start your songs out strong. Your hook must be captivating and compelling to draw someone in.
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With the advent of smartphones, there’s really no reason you should be without a recording device to capture your musical ideas. Don’t take your ideas for granted and let them slip away — record them as soon as they pop into your head.
(And don’t forget to preserve your music copyright.)
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It’s okay to borrow and employ some of the motifs and themes that are common to your genre. However, don’t become overly reliant on them. To be truly memorable, you want your songs to overturn listeners’ expectations. SongRegistration.com
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Unlearning is possibly as important as learning when it comes to songwriting. Having a strong sense of structure and form is great, but you’ll never be able to invent or do anything new if you don’t break a few rules.
(And always document song copyright.)
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Be careful to avoid using too many different ideas or themes in a single set of song lyrics. You want to focus on telling a strong story or upon exploring a particular theme. But you risk creating cognitive dissonance if your ideas and themes contradict and distract. (And don’t forget to establish your song and music copyrights.)
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You probably encounter hundreds (if not thousands) of ideas for potentially excellent lyrics every day. But inspiration is fleeting, and if you aren’t prepared to write down that classic line, then it may pass you by.
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Believe it or not, music is can evoke a range of physiological responses from your body. Your heart rate, for example, will change to mimic the tempo of the music to which you’re listening.
Studies have been conducted that indicate this has a potentially beneficial health effect. For people who listened to music for roughly half an hour a day, their blood pressure and heart rate were lower than those who didn’t.
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The next time you sit down to write a song, try out the free-writing method. It’s unstructured and non-stop — don’t edit yourself and keep going until your ideas have utterly been exhausted. Write as many words as you can in the time you’ve given yourself.
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Make your song tell a story, then leverage the melody to increase or decrease the level of tension in the song. This is particularly effective, for example, when it’s done at the story’s climax or in a suspenseful portion.
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Consider using word associations as a technique to drive your lyric brainstorming process. Start with a concept and expand it to encompass all the other clusters of words and images that go along with that concept.
In doing so, you may find your writing go into new, unintended directions that could unearth something singularly interesting and possibly even revolutionary.
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Often, finding a rhythm that works is the hardest part of getting your songwriting process in motion. Once you have a really solid rhythm, you can shape the lyrics and music around it.
By deciding on a certain rhythmic pattern, you’ll have a strong foundation for your composition. Think of different variations and consider playing an existing piece backward to find new rhythmic directions for your music.
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