{"id":1483,"date":"2014-12-02T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2022-06-03T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:33:11","slug":"this-months-songwriting-tips-melody-lyrics-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/this-months-songwriting-tips-melody-lyrics-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"This Month&#8217;s #Songwriting Tips | Melody &#038; Lyrics Ideas:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/615550_474941662528439_88906278_o.jpg\" alt=\"615550_474941662528439_88906278_o\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/615550_474941662528439_88906278_o.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/615550_474941662528439_88906278_o-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Lyrics \u2013 Stories Within and Without: Every time you don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything worth writing about, stop and look at the world around you. It&#8217;s almost impossible to write in a vacuum. Alternatively, think auto-biographically.<\/p>\n<p>Melody \u2013 Keeping It Simple: One tried and true approach involves first creating an interesting series of chords, and then simply basing your vocal melody on that chord progression. And if you have a chord sequence for part of a song, but are struggling where to go next, try simply reversing the chord order and using it for the new part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n\u2714 Always register your songs! <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/\">http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics \u2013 Stories Within and Without: Every time you don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","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-nV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}