{"id":1288,"date":"2013-11-04T21:33:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T05:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:37:27","slug":"choosing-a-natural-starting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/choosing-a-natural-starting-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a Natural Starting Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choose a natural starting point for your song instead of trying to force it. In essence, let your song begin where you feel it&#8217;s supposed to begin.<\/p>\n<p>If your brain naturally starts with a melody, then just throw some nonsense words into the mix until the right words form to take their place. That&#8217;s how Paul McCartney wrote &#8220;Yesterday&#8221; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/eater.com\/archives\/2010\/12\/10\/paul-mccartney-and-jimmy-fallon-sing-scrambled-eggs-aka-yesterday.php\">his original version of the song was about scrambled eggs<\/a>, and he used the phrase as a placeholder until his real lyrics had mentally congealed for him.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5280\/5895209515_341fd03259.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr by Lindsey Gira<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose a natural starting point for your song instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-kM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}