{"id":942,"date":"2013-10-17T18:13:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T01:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:39:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:39:45","slug":"judging-your-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/judging-your-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Judging Your Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an objective standpoint, it can be hard to tell if the song you&#8217;ve written is really any good. Often you&#8217;re too close to the work to judge it in any meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p>This is also complicated by the fact that songs are a complex machines with a ton of different theoretical components. However, there are some <a href=\"http:\/\/nicholastozier.com\/words\/5-songwriting-virtues-that-are-older-than-the-english-language\/\">songwriting virtues that are older than the English language<\/a> \u2014 check your song against them and see how they stand up.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8096\/8457656097_f58d734a42.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr by Sara Bilijana<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an objective standpoint, it can be hard to tell [&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":[32,31],"tags":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-music-facts","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-fc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}