Free SongWriting TipsHere are a few free songwriting tips for you to improve your songs. Get your songwriting on the right foot and start writing those greats songs now at home. Lift your songs to the next level by using tools and skills you can learn in the book How Music Really Works. There are many people who can show you their tools, tricks and secrets to help you learn to write better songs. I have a large collection of songwriting books that are very helpful. There's a great deal of free songwriting tips and value to be found out there but finding it consolidated in one place and package is another story. I found the most comprehensive overview I've ever seen about songwriting in Wayne Chase's book How Music Really Works. Wayne comes at songwriting from a different angle than anything I've seen out there. 
I say this having just spent more than 7 years learning songwriting from the best professional songwriters I could find. I think he has the broadest overview of songwriting out there. I have studied with Wayne on two separate week long workshops. I find Wayne's work of genius and a greater overview of the entire songwriting experience than I've heard anywhere else. However Wayne comes from a very different perspective than most professional songwriters I've encountered. This is a blessing and partially a curse for Wayne as the songwriting establishment doesn't always embrace Wayne's ideas. In fact he challenges the songwriting establishment for focusing on writing "hits" rather than great songs. I think "How Music Really Works" it a groundbreaking work that is unique and ahead of its time. Here' another way to look at it. Its about time someone did what Wayne Chase has done. Wayne approached his work scientifically and researched the data in the songs themselves. He analyzed the great successful songs ever written and compiled his findings into his very insightful book. Basically the book shows that to know how to consistently write strong songs you have to understand how music really works and use it to your advantage. These are great free songwriting tips. Wayne created a technique to write songs using his methods and sets it out in How Music Really Works. Its a comprehensive approach that is very unique and creates songs that stand out of other songs. His technique includes an amazing and simple technique for writing melody that listeners can't forget. 
I'm always astounded when I examine great songs that the technique is in many of them. Surprising as it may seem, I've never once heard his technique talked about by pro songwriters in the many workshops I've attended. In fairness to Wayne, he'd say its not his technique, its only him pointing out what the great songwriters have done and him telling us how we can do it too. Wayne's book also incorporates the natural capabilities of the human body, mind, ear and memory to provide roadmaps to how a songwriter can try to do what most great songwriters have done in their songs. He gives a new rational explanation of why some things in songwriting work and why some other things are likely to fail with the listener. These a some of the great free songwriting tips. He also has done groundbreaking work on the connotative meaning of words. That is examining the emotional value of words and understanding and choosing words that have high emotional value for your songs. After all, songs are all about communicating emotionally with your listener. Wayne gives a very practical method of doing this by using a thesaurus and developing emotionally charged lists of words to build your songs from. This is dynamite in creating unique specific images in your songs that will make them stand out from other songs. Just combining this use of emotionally charged words and his the approach to melody structure automatically will lift your songwriting to a whole new level. I'm only pointing out a few of the many things he talks about in his book. There's explanations on the proper use of chord changes, modulation, placement of lyrics against the beat in your song etc. He's covered almost every point about songwriting that I can think of. A great free songwriting tip is go and see if the conclusions he comes to in his book are based on the data and not subjective viewpoints. For me, Wayne's book opened my eyes to a new way of viewing what we can do in songs to reach listeners so it did change my songwriting world. I hope it can also change your songwriting world. To read more on how Wayne Chase's writing fits or doesn't fit with the thinking of the music industry go to improve your songwriting skills.
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