How To Write Songs - Power Nouns

How to write songs, here's the secret of power nouns. Using power nouns is the secret that all great songwriters use but very few amateur songwriters understand about how to write song lyrics. Successful songwriting requires you the songwriter to use nouns or names to catch the listeners interest.

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Using names, names, names and more names will deepen the emotional connection of your song with the listener. How's that you say? Well people are interested in other peoples lives and stories.

Personalizing your song by naming persons, places and things is the simple secret to do that. Songwritng assistance to make your song more memorable is only a noun away.

Great American songwriting or any other depends on this technique. You will give your songs an immediate lift if you do this.

If you don't want to take my word for it then listen to some great songs that have stood the test of time and count how many times they use specific power nouns to name persons, places or things in a song.

Notice how many song titles have used names in them. The Beatles did this all the time. How about: Hey Jude, Ellenor Rigby, Rocky Raccoon, Yellow submarine, etc. The number is unbelievable if you look at it this way.

So why aren't most amateur songwriters doing it? Good question, they should be, its a tried and proven method of catching the listener's interest. It brings specific information to the song that sets a context that feels real, believable and and touchable.

This secret goes hand in hand with the technique of "show don't tell". The more specific your songs are the better the listener will appreciate them. Using names of persons, places and things will do this for your song. Here are two examples. Which of each pair is more interesting?

-The man walked down the road.

-Charlie walked down Heartbreak Ave.


-The girl twirled her hair and ate desert

-Bonnie twirled her golden hair and ate strawberry ice cream

Be ruthless in your song, name everything. Pack it with names of everything you can think of. Basically if its worth mentioning in your song, its worth finding a way to name it.

You will sometimes catch yourself saying "oh it won't fit" or "people will understand" etc. That may be true, people may understand, but that's not the point. Getting your listener hooked emotionally is how to write songs that will stand out.

Power nouns are your best friend, doing everything you can to get them into your songwriting game. Over doing it is possible, however you will be surprised at how many power nouns you can fit into your song. You still need an interesting story and all the rest of proper songwriting technique.

Try this, use a person's name in the title of you next five songs. That means the name should likely also be in the hook line of your chorus. Just that alone will make your songs more interesting. Again look at the great songs out there and see how many use names in the titles.

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Using as many power nouns as possible is how to write songs that people will remember.