How To SongWriting SiteThis how to songwriting site is designed to show you the songwriting tools you need and help teach you how to take your lyrics, music, melody and song to a higher level. I've designed GreatSongWriting.com to let you take a guided journey in songwriting. Everyone starts at a different place and skill level. But everyone faces the same blank paper at the start of a song. How well you write your song depends on many factors. Usually these are related to the level of songwriting artistic ability, songwriting craft and experience. However, ask any successful songwriter and they'll say some days are more productive than others. Its wise to expect that this will happen to you no matter what level you're at. Its wise to expect it, but critical that you not let it stop you from writing through it. The common theme I've heard from professional writers is that not all your writing will be brilliant or great but none of it will be if you don't keep writing. Accepting that fact can take a lot of pressure off you when you're writing your songs. Generally "how to songwriting" is a combination of inspiration and perseverance to use the skill and tricks you've learned to rewrite the song until its as strong as it can be. Finding the inspiration for a song is part genius but also a skill that can be learned. Fresh ideas are worth their weight in royalties. Fresh doesn't have to mean new. There are very few new themes to write about in a song. Taking something that is common and providing a new musical or lyrical way to communicate it is the secret to writing better songs. A must is "how to songwriting" is find a new angle, a new perspective or a new way to say something that will ring true with the listener and make them interested in your song. Its easy to say and hard to do. But its not that hard to try in every song to ask yourself this in each line. Has somebody said this before? What will make this melody stick in peoples mind? How can I make people so interested in my song that they will stay glued to it in spite of the other distractions in their life? Successful songwriting is as much about competition as it is about art. You're competing for peoples attention and interest. They have little reason to listen to your song. The music industry knows this and like it or not people judge your song when they hear it. The listener may not think of it that way but they are pretty ruthless in turning away from a song they find boring, uninteresting or just similar to everything else. People's senses are wired in certain ways that affect how music works on them. Great songwriters use tried and true techniques in songs because they work. There are no real rules in songwriting other than you must connect emotionally with the listener. However there is lots of room in existing song structures, rhymes and melody tricks the masters have used to keep you writing all your life. So don't be afraid to use these same techniques, they will help you more than hurt you. I've tried to make this site as a how to songwriting site so you can easily develop the art and skills to write better songs. Maybe even write great songs. Use what works for you from this site but please keep writing and writing because to me, writing great songs is a journey and not just a destination.
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