{"id":1504,"date":"2015-12-05T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2022-06-07T19:17:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T02:17:56","slug":"more-songwriting-ideas-and-music-facts-from-songregistration-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/more-songwriting-ideas-and-music-facts-from-songregistration-com\/","title":{"rendered":"More Songwriting Ideas (and Music Facts) from SongRegistration.com:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1505\" src=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12187893_992208784135055_7778882850294524438_n.jpg\" alt=\"12187893_992208784135055_7778882850294524438_n\" width=\"514\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12187893_992208784135055_7778882850294524438_n.jpg 514w, https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12187893_992208784135055_7778882850294524438_n-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1. Focus particularly on your song&#8217;s opening lines. They&#8217;re your best chance to pull in and engage your listener.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>2. Experiment with doubling vocal lines and shifting pitches. (And since most shifts involve a higher key, try a lower one for a different mood transition).<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>3. Analyze your melody&#8217;s metering, sussing out syllables and their lengths. It not only tightens things up, it may also lead to a lyrical hook popping out at you.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>4. And of course to establish <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\">copyright for a song<\/a>, always document your <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/\">music copyright<\/a>\u00a0by professionally registering your songs. With <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\">SongRegistration.com<\/a>, it&#8217;s fast, cheap, and super-easy (and used by composers in 55 countries).<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>A Few More Fun Music Facts:<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>1. Clarence &#8220;Leo&#8221; Fender, founder of Fender Electric and inventor of the Stratocaster and Telecaster, never played guitar.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>2. A Strat is carved into Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s tombstone in Renton WA (see photo), though it&#8217;s not like Jimi&#8217;s. He played his upside-down because he was left-handed (which his father thought was a sign of Satan). In fact, Fender just launched a new Hendrix model &#8212; a &#8220;flipped-over&#8221; Strat for right-handers, with everything reversed &#8212; strings, pickups, headstock, bridge (http:\/\/www.fender.com\/alter-your-axis) &#8212; hoping to re-create that distinctive Hendrix sound (good luck with that)&#8230;<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n<!-- Start of StatCounter Code for Default Guide --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><br \/>\nvar sc_project=2370006;<br \/>\nvar sc_invisible=1;<br \/>\nvar sc_security=\"112ca85e\";<br \/>\nvar sc_https=1;<br \/>\nvar scJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ?<br \/>\n\"https:\/\/secure.\" : \"https:\/\/www.\");<br \/>\ndocument.write(\"<sc\"+\"ript type='text\/javascript' src='\" +\nscJsHost+\n\"statcounter.com\/counter\/counter.js'><\/\"+\"script>\");<br \/>\n<\/script><br \/>\n<!-- End of StatCounter Code for Default Guide --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. 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