{"id":872,"date":"2013-09-15T20:11:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T03:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2013-10-19T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T01:00:32","slug":"dont-rely-on-melody-production-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/dont-rely-on-melody-production-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Rely on Melody &#038; Production Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While a catchy, <a href=\"http:\/\/audio.tutsplus.com\/tutorials\/composition\/seven-steps-to-writing-memorable-melodies-part-1\/\">memorable melody<\/a>\u00a0and good production can sometimes carry a weak lyric, it&#8217;s best to avoid relying on either the former or the latter to do all the work.<\/p>\n<p>Your songs should be able to engage your listeners even without the accompaniment of music. Try to see if your lyrics can stand alone as spoken word. If they can do this, then they&#8217;ll be ten times better when you add melody and production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/melody-production-songwriting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-873\" alt=\"melody and production in songwriting\" src=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/melody-production-songwriting.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/melody-production-songwriting.jpg 500w, https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/melody-production-songwriting-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While a catchy, memorable melody\u00a0and good production can sometimes carry [&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":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-e4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}