Talk about songs that you've written and songs that you love. What is it about music that moves you? What was the inspiration behind music you've written? How have certain songs effected you?
Don’t obsess Too Much, Just write
A good way to begin your songwriting efforts is to write about a story you’ve seen on the news on television, or read about in a newspaper or magazine. That way you can concentrate on the wording and rhyming of the lyrics without having to worry about thinking of a storyline. Once you have written the first section or verse, repeat it using different lyrics. Now examine your song to follow this with a chorus, which should be the catchiest part of the song... Read Full Story
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Songwriting Tips
A good song expresses the thoughts and feelings of the songwriter about the subject in question, but more importantly it evokes an abundance of emotions in the listener. Follow the songwriting tips on this page for a helping hand when you... Read Full Story
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1. Inspiration
What inspires you when writing a song? Life events, films, books, love, tragedy… boredom? If you don’t have inspiration, songwriting can be a chore. Inspiration can be observation, feelings, opinions, if you put pen to paper with a blank slate, you are making things difficult for yourself.
Can’t think of a theme? Rather than focus on music and songs, focus on... Read Full Story
The aim of these free songwriting tips is to quite literally be helpful tips - not rules - that may work for you. There will be many contradictions to songwriting advice from any source, and rightly so, because some songs, well, they just work!!
Be careful though if you are a newbie, if you go against everything we advise you may be successful because of the novelty factor, and this can lead to being a one hit wonder. Just something to bear in mind, established artists can be a... Read Full Story
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Here is a new edition of Vaccai meets Trip Hop. I am now up to the 14th release in my Musing Mana song project : Musing Mana 14 – Vaccai Meets Trip Hop (Take 2)
This version has more of a tribal feel and some minor key overtones. I even had to haul out my synthesizer to play the bass line and my Irish penny-whistle for the celestial background sounds. I bet Nicola Vaccai never dreamed his music would be mixed with Trip Hop. That is what the Creative Commons movement is all about... Read Full Story
Here is a new edition of Vaccai meets Trip Hop. I am now up to the 14th release in my Musing Mana song project : Musing Mana 14 – Vaccai Meets Trip Hop (Take 2)
This version has more of a tribal feel and some minor key overtones. I even had to haul out my synthesizer to play the bass line and my Irish penny-whistle for the celestial background sounds. I bet Nicola Vaccai never dreamed his music would be mixed with Trip Hop. That is what the Creative Commons movement is all about... Read Full Story
This article is simply giving some songwriting basics to help you get started.
There are many ways to write a song, no one method is the correct way.
There are three areas we will concentrate on here:
Title/Chorus/Hook
Catchy Melody
Structure
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In my infinite desire to play around with new technology I ended up creating a MPEG4 video - The Movie – Vaccai Meets Trip Hop (Take 2) of Vaccai Meets Trip Hop (Take 2). So, now here you go. This has to be one of my shortest blog posts ever. BTW, happy Labor Day.
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In my infinite desire to play around with new technology I ended up creating a MPEG4 video - The Movie – Vaccai Meets Trip Hop (Take 2) of Vaccai Meets Trip Hop (Take 2). So, now here you go. This has to be one of my shortest blog posts ever. BTW, happy Labor Day.
Click here to view the embedded video.
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