{"id":921,"date":"2013-10-06T23:16:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T06:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:41:10","slug":"strong-opening-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/strong-opening-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Opening Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Focus particularly on the opening lines of your song. They are, by far, your best chance for pulling your listener into the song and creating an immediate engagement with them.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/musiced.about.com\/od\/othermusicgenres\/a\/songwritingtips.htm\">powerful opening line<\/a> will set the story for your listener, and it will establish the who, what, and were of your song. It will possibly also provide insight into the why of the song as well. But it all begins with opening lines that get your listeners started on their journey.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/128\/418435387_4766e9e485.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr by ggvic<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus particularly on the opening lines of your song. They [&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":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips","tag-how-to-write-songs","tag-songwriting-tips-2","tag-ways-to-compose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-eR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}